I was heavily involved with Wordpress from about 2006 to 2012. I made it do things it was never designed to do before a lot of plugins like this existed. It was

I was heavily involved with Wordpress from about 2006 to 2012. I made it do things it was never designed to do before a lot of plugins like this existed. It was garbage then and it’s still garbage now. I stopped using it primarily because I saw what a cluster fuck the internals were and how out of control the plugin upsell ecosystem became. There were inklings of this behavior from the supreme leader too, like believing theme sales were antithetical to the entire point of WP. So I jumped ship with a real bad taste in my mouth and never looked back. I’ve tried it a handful of times over the year and it still looks like the same turd with a few more layers of polish. Still won’t scale out of the box without caching plugins. The irony of this entire situation is Matt didn’t even make Wordpress. It was forked from a blogging engine called b2. How’s that expression go? You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.