Wordpress has a lot of features that most people overlook when implementing their own blog platforms. I'm not saying it is a great system to develop with but i

Wordpress has a lot of features that most people overlook when implementing their own blog platforms. I'm not saying it is a great system to develop with but it handles a lot more use cases than most systems I see people comparing it with. People regularly compare things like the Rails demo blog with wordpress as an example of why PHP/wordpress is bad. It could certainly be better but it's understandable as to why it's not pretty under the hood. Trying to be everything for everyone usually results in ugly systems.