The problem with this article is his list of "Wordpress Problems" could just as easily be named "The Problems Every Web Application Has". Web Apps, by definiti

The problem with this article is his list of "Wordpress Problems" could just as easily be named "The Problems Every Web Application Has". Web Apps, by definition, always present a battle between extensibility and security. Wordpress is no different and this author's suggestion (to truncate the extensibility) is an over reaction at this point. Keep in mind, Wordpress caught the bug before it was exploited. The problem Wordpress has is their users hold off on upgrading because the upgrades often break plug-in functionality. What they need to do is further abstract their plug-in framework so that security updates can be applied without breaking plug-in functionality. After doing that Wordpress may still need to make the software less extensible but they should at least try every possible way to keep their current functionality before cutting features for security sake.