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Ok. I read your last sentence of, "At this point it's network effects and path dependence that keeps it at the top." as still alluding to PHP and cheap hosts as
by ereckers 13y ago
Ok. I read your last sentence of, "At this point it's network effects and path dependence that keeps it at the top." as still alluding to PHP and cheap hosts as being responsible for WordPress's current position.
As for me putting WordPress into a basket with Drupal, Joomla, Modx, and the like; the reality is that WordPress is being used as a CMS. It wasn't built for that, and this is distasteful to many here, but that's what it is now being used for for a majority of its new installs.
Install WordPress, create custom post types, create meta fields, and tie it all together with posts 2 posts plugins, and you're well on your way to a website with some basic many to many and one to many relationships.
Habari, TextPattern and Serendipity look like purely blogging platforms, but if they're better, I hope to start hearing about them in the near future.
- jacques_chester 13y agoOh I realise that Wordpress is being used as a CMS. People write some fairly amazing plugins to browbeat it into being all sorts of things. (BuddyPress, anyone?) My point is that Drupal out of the box requires a lot more configuration simply to something, anything, that an end user can understand. It continues to reveal a very large control surface which, as you correctly point out, is confusing to people who just want to know how to edit some pages. Drupal hands you the toolbox and expects you to work out what you want to build. Wordpress hands you a chair and says "here, sit on this". > Habari, TextPattern and Serendipity look like purely blogging platforms, but if they're better, I hope to start hearing about them in the near future. If you haven't heard of them before, it seems safe to assume that you won't hear much about them in future.
- VintageCool 13y agoI've seen people using Wordpress to power a high-traffic REST API.