I find it fascinating that all the hackers start from scratch instead of creating a plugin which takes the templates, tools, & posts they already have on wordpr

I find it fascinating that all the hackers start from scratch instead of creating a plugin which takes the templates, tools, & posts they already have on wordpress and figure out how to create a plugin which does more intelligent caching or even creates a static site. In terms of security there is a lot you can do to tighten up a base wordpress install.