WordPress needs no introduction, it powers a significant portion of the web while having some of the most nightmare inducing code i have seen in all my years as a developer.

Just look at the API, i mean what the actual fuck is that?

get_fucked();

@Letmecode You will be surprised just how often it is used.

I have toned down the statement but still it was at 18.9% last time i checked, which is still not a small number.

@Letmecode Granted that was a while ago but this site will have the figures based on what is known: @Letmecode" style="color: #54556e;">https://w3techs.com/technologies/...

@Zennoe It's fine, check it again and you will see what happened.

It's also a popular CMS to practice hacking... Err, I mean pentesting.

@Zennoe Check the link...it's really obvious

@Zennoe Looking at the URI, you will see something post-fixed to the end of it that clearly shouldn't be there.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/...

@Zennoe No, the URl was fine. The fact the mention was detected as part of that was not of my doing.

DISCLAIMER I seem to be on a WP defense kick tonight... could change by sun up.

I honestly think that people who complain the most about WP really just don't know it as well as they do other platforms. And honestly I think most complainers haven't even done any real development on it(really leveraging what the platform does give you) and are more complaining about shit themes and plugins...

@apisarenco - for instance your comment is regarding a "theme" file

You can treat WP like you would any other framework and build your app how you want while leveraging the "magic"...

The more I think about it, it's not that different from Django...

@apisarenco WordPress was designed to be a blog engine, it was never meant to be anything more than that.

@apisarenco Yes, it's stupid but they have had to adapt to survive.

@apisarenco I concede, you're right about the wp-includes/functions.php

Tfw you need work practice hours for university (official employment only), and the only jobs offered deal with Wordpress.