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Serious question: Have you used Wordpress before? For what it lacks out-of-the-box 9 times out of 10 exists in the form of a plugin (sometimes multiple plugins)
by DigitalSea 13y ago
Serious question: Have you used Wordpress before? For what it lacks out-of-the-box 9 times out of 10 exists in the form of a plugin (sometimes multiple plugins). I don't see what Wordpress lacks personally other than a coherent file structure and clean codebase...
I'be be much more interested in a new modern, flexible CMS built for that purpose from the ground up than I am about a new blogging software.
Sounds like you're talking about Drupal here or ExpressionEngine which are both great and well-written content management systems. Wordpress serves many purposes, clean code doesn't matter so much at the end of the day unless you're a code purist who thinks languages and conventions matter if the end product works and is usable.
- scriptproof 13y agoNot all plugins are updated with the core program, plus compatibility issues sometimes, so it is not the same.
- andyhmltn 13y ago>clean code doesn't matter so much at the end of the day unless you're a code purist Or you're unlucky enough to have to build a theme/site around wordpress
- ryanSrich 13y agoWe build hundreds per year. Is it a huge pain in the ass to maintain a theme with 65 plugins that's 3 releases behind? Of course! But hey, that's part of the job.
- jbrechtel 13y agoIsn't the problem that the end of the day never comes? A site is never 'done'. It always needs to be changed and this is why 'clean code' matters. It reduces the cost of change.