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I'm not sure what you think is so complex. I started doing plugins and themes for it at 15 years old and I'm no genius.
by simlevesque 2y ago
I'm not sure what you think is so complex. I started doing plugins and themes for it at 15 years old and I'm no genius.
- AndroTux 2y agoIt’s not necessarily hard. But it’s cumbersome and just one of the worst codebases I ever had the pleasure of working with. Basically everything about it is legacy, bad design choices, hacks, workarounds and compatibility fixes. That’s what makes it complex. It needs a rewrite 10 years ago. But due to the deep integration of thousands of plugins that will never be possible.
- creativenolo 2y agoFrom personal experience, the complexity comes from how ‘not obvious’, unexpected, or (outwith WordPress) unconventional much of WordPress is. It is a fascinating code base that is a result of it evolving through end user needs, over years, rather than being a grand software architecture with developer ergonomics at the core. Last time I touched it, changing domain names and sync dbs all required plugins. Yet in page editing works like magic. I assume no-one building Wordpress today would build it like it is build.