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The dire state of WordPress

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> Still lightyears ahead of templates on other CMSs... Yup, but I think that's primarily because WordPress has a stranglehold on the market. Nobody will use another CMS because WordPress has all the stuff, and nobody will develop mass-market stuff for another content management system because WordPress has all the users. The network effect is strong, and displacing WordPress wouldn't be profitable enough to be worth…

I think the best way would be to come up with a way to port those templates to other CMS that doesn't involves rewriting the whole thing, or perhaps a wrapper?

WP templates are so coupled to WP itself, I truly don't think it's worth it.

Re: The dire state of WordPress

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as a wordpress developer using it as a framework I love this like "WordPress isn’t a platform suited to anyone except those unlucky enough to have somehow become WordPress developers."

I'd love to see his vision of a code-cleanup happen to WordPress.

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