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Originally Posted by potter
Wordpress is truly a terrible platform to build websites on. It's literally a blogging system. Now, it's grown to be huge in the past 5 years and they've tried to market it as a true CMS for websites, but in the end it's really not. It has a terrible code base and API, and it doesn't adhere to the proper standards most enterprise systems stick to.
Now, I've worked on two wordpress websites that were $250k+ to develop (I've worked on many others as well but not to the scale of those two). Both were done by one of the largest wordpress agencies in the country. They were great sites and they ran and functioned well. However in both cases you can tell just how much wordpress had to be tweaked to work as the CMS for the site, and to meet the requirements specification. I bring this up because while there are some very serious wordpress development agencies out there building fantastic sites in wordpress (big ones, and very expensive ones) -- in every case wordpress has had to be "manipulated" to function as needed. That is not the way software is supposed to work.
The push in the last few years to represent WP as an enterprise solution, or to make it appear as a viable CMS platform -- is in the simplest of terms a facade. They so easily have done so because it is such a turn key system that was easily accessible to the masses.
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Wait, what?
First and foremost, don't get what I'm about to say wrong because I'm not a WP fanatic. I'm actually looking to start moving our stuff away from WP when I have time due to it -- in my opinion -- following the same path joomla went down in becoming a heavy footprint, bloated piece of software.
That being said, the whole point of development, and especially with open source, is to build something. WP is just the core of what you're building upon, a frame if you will. And unless you write your own CMS from the ground up that includes everything you want and/or need, then it doesn't matter what base platform you decide to use; they'll all need to be 'tweaked'.
The biggest reason for WP's success, imho, is due to the substantial community behind it, there is a ton of development activity, and the documentation is quite well done. So it makes sense that a lot of people would flock to it, regardless of whether it's being used as a blogging platform, a 'true' cms, or anything in between.
Now, this isn't to say that WP is the
best choice out there, but it's a popular one, and for good reason.
As for the OP, we use WP on all of our sites,
http://asiansexdiary.com (members area only),
http://trikepatrol.com/ and
http://tuktukpatrol.com/
At the end of the day though, as I said earlier, I'm looking to move our stuff away from WP when I have time to rewrite everything. I'm liking a lot of what I see with concrete5 but haven't really had time to sit down and decide.