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> there are a lot of great products out there that are built much better than WordPress and I wish one of them were the dominant player. Honest question: Can y

> there are a lot of great products out there that are built much better than WordPress and I wish one of them were the dominant player. Honest question: Can you name one? I'm seriously looking for a WordPress alternative, but I haven't found one that is truly BETTER.

cooperadymas 14y ago
What I mean by this is others have a better structured, more solid & easily extendable code base, better separation between presentation and logic, etc.. Obviously, this is somewhat of an opinion, and it only refers to the underlying structure. For the end user, WordPress is probably the best. A large part of this is due to its ecosystem of plugins and themes. You shouldn't need to build custom code on top of WordPress unless you are doing something very unique, building an application (as opposed to a "website"), or attempting to tie together several plugins. Sticking with PHP, both http://modx.com/ http://modx.com/ and http://www.silverstripe.org/ http://www.silverstripe.org/ are fairly popular and well-built. I've also heard good things of http://www.concrete5.org/ http://www.concrete5.org/ , http://www.movabletype.com/ http://www.movabletype.com/ , http://textpattern.com/ http://textpattern.com/ , and http://ellislab.com/expressionengine http://ellislab.com/expressionengine . http://habariproject.org/en/ http://habariproject.org/en/ has also been built specifically to address many of the faults in WordPress and other popular systems.
- eclipticplane 14y ago
  Isn't MoveableType in Perl?
  - cooperadymas 14y ago
    Possibly - I've never done anything with it. The PHP statement was really only for the first two, sorry for the confusion!
mars 14y ago
depending on what type of project you are building you might want to have a look at yeager (http://www.yeager.cm http://www.yeager.cm). although the site states beta, the tool is stable and used in live environments since several years.

cooperadymas 14y ago

What I mean by this is others have a better structured, more solid & easily extendable code base, better separation between presentation and logic, etc.. Obviously, this is somewhat of an opinion, and it only refers to the underlying structure. For the end user, WordPress is probably the best. A large part of this is due to its ecosystem of plugins and themes. You shouldn't need to build custom code on top of WordPress unless you are doing something very unique, building an application (as opposed to a "website"), or attempting to tie together several plugins. Sticking with PHP, both http://modx.com/ http://modx.com/ and http://www.silverstripe.org/ http://www.silverstripe.org/ are fairly popular and well-built. I've also heard good things of http://www.concrete5.org/ http://www.concrete5.org/ , http://www.movabletype.com/ http://www.movabletype.com/ , http://textpattern.com/ http://textpattern.com/ , and http://ellislab.com/expressionengine http://ellislab.com/expressionengine . http://habariproject.org/en/ http://habariproject.org/en/ has also been built specifically to address many of the faults in WordPress and other popular systems.

eclipticplane 14y ago
Isn't MoveableType in Perl?
- cooperadymas 14y ago
  Possibly - I've never done anything with it. The PHP statement was really only for the first two, sorry for the confusion!

mars 14y ago

depending on what type of project you are building you might want to have a look at yeager (http://www.yeager.cm http://www.yeager.cm). although the site states beta, the tool is stable and used in live environments since several years.