http://friedcellcollective.net/outbreak/2006/04/24/wordpress-hates-developers/ bursts of ideas and rants by the alterego Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:40:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://friedcellcollective.net/outbreak/2006/04/24/wordpress-hates-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-54529 SimpleIT’s Blog » Blog Archive » Is Wordpress cool for developers? Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:31:08 +0000 http://friedcellcollective.net/outbreak/2006/04/24/wordpress-hates-developers/#comment-54529 [...] Wordpress targets at end-users and public, therefore it is committed to providing easy-to-use features and clean layout. Being too concerned about end-users, Wordpress has neglected developers, who is eventually in charge of sustaining its friendliness, security and fueling its technological evolution. There are a quite few complaints about Wordpress. I’ve read through Wordpress source code (version 2.3.0 & 2.3.1), fixed themes, plugins and really dislike the mess and lack of professionalism of the coding style. Mixing HTML, JS and PHP code is never fun. HTML is nested inside PHP loops, control statements. There are numerous plugins which require modification of theme files in order to be displayed (say Counterize). To make the things worse, some plugins even exploit HTML comments <!– blah blah –> in order to work. [...] [...] WordPress targets at end-users and public, therefore it is committed to providing easy-to-use features and clean layout. Being too concerned about end-users, WordPress has neglected developers, who is eventually in charge of sustaining its friendliness, security and fueling its technological evolution. There are a quite few complaints about WordPress. I’ve read through WordPress source code (version 2.3.0 & 2.3.1), fixed themes, plugins and really dislike the mess and lack of professionalism of the coding style. Mixing HTML, JS and PHP code is never fun. HTML is nested inside PHP loops, control statements. There are numerous plugins which require modification of theme files in order to be displayed (say Counterize). To make the things worse, some plugins even exploit HTML comments <!– blah blah –> in order to work. [...]

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