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There are a lot of people out there who could write a CMS that's as easy to use as WordPress, and which is as easy to write plug-ins and templates for. But nobo
by chc 13y ago
There are a lot of people out there who could write a CMS that's as easy to use as WordPress, and which is as easy to write plug-ins and templates for. But nobody's really trying to beat WordPress at its own game because the network effects are too strong — even if you make it ridiculously easy to write themes in your non-WordPress CMS, WordPress already has thousands that are already written and an army of programers dedicated to churning out more. It will always be easier to find a WordPress theme than one for anything else.
- ereckers 13y agoA lot of the more attractive themes at say Themeforest for instance are simply HTML, CSS, and jquery. At this point you're only constricted by the ease of templating whichever CMS/thing you're using, whether WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine etc.. I still think WordPress does a good job, better/best job even and that's why it's currently king of the user base. However, the Internet is fickle and people will bail for something better at the drop of a hat, network effects or not.