Wank describes everything that is wrong about WordPress
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009There is a woman in England who maintains a blog 100% devoted to listing the weaknesses and failures of WordPress. In this, she provides a much needed service. Lord knows, WordPress has weaknesses. I offer this as a sample of her wisdom and scathing wit:
aw, Scoble got hacked after abandoning wordpress.com for not letting him be quite Special enough to have plugins. One cannot blame Matt for experiencing some schadenfreude, though blaming the host rather than Scoble sounds disappointingly like he’s scared of losing any chance of him and his dollars coming home to VIP-land. I bet he wouldn’t be criticising Rackspace if it were on the wordpress.org affiliate page.
Seriously, though, why is anyone who gives a shit about not having their blog hacked still using wordpress? Do they actually enjoy having to upgrade every couple of weeks? I never thought I’d say this, but there are more important things than pretty themes when you’re choosing a blogtool. I think we can now officially declare that WP is the Windows of blogging. It’s easy, it’s convenient, but the tradeoff is YOU GET WORMS.
This post of hers deserves double points, since she not only attacks WordPress but she also criticizes the second biggest cry baby the Internet has yet produced (only Scoble’s mentor does a better job of being a cry baby: “‘Why has my personality become the issue? They’re using that to try to get me to shut up,’ Winer said in an interview“).
I use WordPress to run this blog. It is one of those platforms that seems to have a lot of potential, though the constant security issues make it a huge hassle over the long term. I think at some point Matt Mullenweg will either have to get much more serious about the infrastructure of the platform, or eventually something like CodeIgniter/ExpressionEngine is going to eat away WordPress’s market share.
