My point was that raw PHP is a little too unstructured and powerful for the tasks that many plugins are made to accomplish. By integration, I mean adopting plu

My point was that raw PHP is a little too unstructured and powerful for the tasks that many plugins are made to accomplish. By integration, I mean adopting plugins from various authors and making them work as part of your theme. There are all sorts of issues involved... random visual design, clashing HTML doctypes, possible poor coding, adding functionality, fixing security issues... creating a coherent, secure and functional site by piecing together various WordPress plugins is not as easy as installing some plugins and whistling off into the glorious sunset. Simply finding a plugin for a certain purposes which actually works can be a challenge. I wasn't attempting criticize WordPress or PHP in general, just the quality of the average plugin and the lack of consistency and order.