[PHPLondon-discuss] Wordpress

[Darren Moore]

And I concur..

Wordpress is fantastic for blogs because it is s simple to install and 
there are loads of community mods - ie if you can think of some 
functionality someone else has already done it. I use it for 4 blogs and 
2 v. simple CMS's. I reckon I can get most designs into Wordpress as a 
CMS in a day if the designer provides x-platform xhtml/css  which will 
answer the client's requirement to change the text themselves 
cost-effectively. In fact I reckon there could be quite a market for 
building Wordpress CMS sites in a day if anyone wants to join me! 
Anything bigger than 12 pages or so and I rely on our completely 
in-house bespoke CMS which adds smarty templating to the mix (but that's 
about it from a technology p.o.v.)

I like the theory of being able to commission external developers to 
build WP add-ons or themes for you: a reasonably css aware designer can 
build you a theme and integrate it cheaply. For simple sites, with 
simple requirements WP performance is fine, although I wouldn't really 
want to see it under serious load (probably due to Andrew's points below).

The bigger ones such as Joomla/Mambo weren't user friendly  / mature 
enough to give enterprise style CMS to the bigger  clients who needed it 
3 - 4 years ago.. they may be now.

Hope this helps.

Darren



Andrew Betts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We did http://ftalphaville.ft.com using Wordpress, and speaking as someone who's actually had to wade through pretty much the whole codebase, let me tell you it seriously sucks.  A few highlights:
>
> 1. It tries to detect magic_quotes_gpc, un-quotes the superglobal arrays and then re-quotes them so it's impossible to get access to the raw querystring or post data
>
> 2. I've had function chains up to eight calls long with each function in a different file.
>
> 3. I still have nightmares about a function called wpautop().  If you ever think about editing it... don't.
>
> 4. I've lost count of the number of code blocks that have comments such as "This probably isn't needed anymore".  Probably!?
>
> And yes, my own blog runs Wordpress.  It's just so damned easy to install :-)
>
> Andrew
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