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Old 01-28-2008, 08:41 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Wildhoney View Post
Would you say Wordpress is badly coded?
In my own past uses I would say "kind of". Obviously it has an aging code base, and isn't been refactored into more efficient or relevant code. This lack of finesse for relatively simplistic things is a bad sign of what PHP can do, but ultimately not our responsibility. And yes, that's why I decided to make my own blog package for my own personal use, perhaps for others too, because I hate weighty packages for simplistic things. And secure software needn't be weighty, just secure!

So, badly coded ... sorta. But yet it does function and is popular.
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