One of the things we're looking at moving forward is using things like this. We're taking a look at various frameworks at the moment as we look to move forward

One of the things we're looking at moving forward is using things like this. We're taking a look at various frameworks at the moment as we look to move forward on a few issues (such as request variable abstraction, for which we're looking at Symfony's HttpFoundation/HttpKernel). However, WordPress still supports PHP 5.2, whereas most frameworks are now 5.3+. There's still a huge [1] userbase still on 5.2, so dropping it isn't really possible at this point in time. [1]: http://wordpress.org/about/stats/ http://wordpress.org/about/stats/