Comments on: An Exercise in WordPress Integration, or Why WordPress Sucks

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:18:33 +0000

I've had a lot of fun reading this post, as well as the comments. As the author points out, I just feel sorry for people out there having to work with this piece of crap.

By: Emad Ha.

Emad Ha. — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:32:37 +0000

the function is
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("footer") )

endif;

By: Emad Ha.

Emad Ha. — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:31:53 +0000

Did you see this function ? to output a widget?

You can only output a widget with that!, with a damn condition! and the oposite to human mind!
if NOT function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') THEN RUN that function! AT the SAME TIME check the function value, and NOT.

By: Richard Smallwood

Richard Smallwood — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:17:18 +0000

Look, for sure WP codebase is a nightmare – however in the area of marketing I work in, we are seeing more and more clients want to use it.

This might be considered a good thing – as it is encouraging marketers to consider a website as more than an 'online brochure'.

It might also be a very bad thing – as they are starting to thing 'Wordpress' is synonymous for 'website'.

We will see…

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:44:24 +0000

This post is summarizing up my frustrations exactly. My CMS and blog of choice to date has been Drupal, but I kept hearing all these great things about WordPress and how it's so much easier to use and work with than Drupal.

Granted, Drupal is not and never will be the picture of simplicity, but at least the coding conventions make sense. All I see when I dig into WordPress code is one big nasty snarled ball of procedural code "Wharrgarbl" as you put it so succinctly. I am so pissed about this "THE LOOP" B.S. and all the globals that I have to run around trying to find anytime I want to do anything.

Another thing about the stupid "THE LOOP" is that it makes it near impossible for you to separate out your code from your HTML. Thanks to the awesome "THE LOOP", I can't scan understand my own damn HTML because there's so much garbage that I'm forced to mix in there to keep the page from breaking down.

WordPress, it's like coding with a blindfold on.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:07:41 +0000

I got a WP site cuz I thought it would be EZ to use for a non-developer… all I kept hearing is WP WP WP!. I hate it.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:30:47 +0000

Absolutely Love the post, and I kinda liked wordpress until I looked at the code. Anyone who defends the wordpress codebase is just plain ignorant.

All you need is a new blog engine and a wordpress template stripper that works from some default wordpress install with tokenized content.

Presto your new well architected engine now has access to tens of thousands of templates!!!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:13:27 +0000

Again I am faced with a terrible decision involving WP. It never works for me, costs me hours of hair pulling, crashes when updating, looks to european, is inflexible, is extremely graphics and media format unfriendly, and uses insane conventions that make no sense to anyone but MW! The little weasel! Should be shot! WP definitely sucks!

By: ian

ian — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:48:26 +0000

I'm in the middle of a WP-based project and I just wanted to say that this blog has the worst code I've seen in my life.

Probably even osCommerce is better. It's a festival of design mistakes (if there even was designed) implemented by 13-year old boys who just learned programmers and write their first 'big project'.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm after a 7hr session of resolving problems caused by morons who even can't comment their code properly.

By: SalmanAbbas007

SalmanAbbas007 — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:14:10 +0000

haha noobs, wordpress <3