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I've worked with Wordpress for the last 7 years myself, and some of these points aren't too far off the mark. I'm of the belief that I shouldn't have to install

by girvo 12y ago

I've worked with Wordpress for the last 7 years myself, and some of these points aren't too far off the mark. I'm of the belief that I shouldn't have to install a million plugins for stuff that should be built in, and I'm sick of the global loop. On the other hand the module system and Laravel integration I've built at work makes Wordpress rather nice to use for heavy development; clients can build new pages from scratch with all the structure content they want, and have the design never break and always match the rest of the page. I love ACF ;)

Cthulhu_ 12y ago
But who gets to decide what "should be" built in? Chrome (the browser) for example came out with pretty much nothing but browsing at first, while its competitors - Firefox and Opera, notably - were only adding features (iirc Opera had things like email, bittorrent and IRC clients built in at the time). This left the choice of what a user would like in his browser to that user himself. I'm sure that most Wordpress installations have no extra plugins at all - and are none the worse off for it. But out of curiosity - what plugins do you believe should be part of the default WP package?
- ZenoArrow 12y ago
  Opera has always been a little different (I personally like it), but Firefox was not getting tons of extra features when Chrome launched (why would Mozilla do that when they had such a healthy plugin market). As far as I see it, Chrome got the bulk of its market share through speed and advertising/bundling (advertised on Google, bundled with Flash, etc...).