Why Wordpress is the framework of the future

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by Brajeshwar • 14 years ago

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zackkitzmiller• 14 years ago

I honestly don't understand how the giant garbled mess of code that is wordpress could be considered a Framework.

radio4fan• 14 years ago

God, I hope not. Part OO, part FSM, all code soup.

Awful, just awful.

kaiserama• 14 years ago

I was expecting satire. Not what I got.

I would have accepted a caveat like "...for people who don't know how to code, but want a CMS". Like the client who told me - and I quote - "I would love to have HTML5, but PHP is fine".

gawker• 14 years ago

Worked on Wordpress plugins and nothing but pure pain. It's a big mess and although it's easy to pick up because many people use PHP, it is a mess!

gingerlime• 14 years ago

Whilst I tend to agree with the other comments that there's a lot of code, and it's far from elegant to develop into, from an end-user perspective, there's no match to Wordpress. User-interface is easy to understand and use, you have tons of very useful plugins (of course some are horrid). For a non-developer or a beginner PHP developer it gives you a very nice framework to build a blog or a CMS platform. Plus - unlike frameworks like django or rails, installing it and getting running from day 1 is a breeze.

cafard• 14 years ago

Currently this is no. 40 on HN. At 35, "Move Over WordPress, There's A New CMS In Town".

lsankar4033• 14 years ago

I think the reason that Wordpress isn't the framework of the future is that it's not a beautiful experience for BOTH beginners and expert web developers. If it were, and both sets of developers could be talking the same language at different levels of abstraction, a framework like Wordpress could probably become the dominant way to create things on the web.

mathgladiator• 14 years ago

I could argue the opposite; beautiful experiences don't dominate the corporate world. Case in point: .NET + Java

This is, of course, a dystopian view of the future.

Why Wordpress is the framework of the future

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