[limeyy]

The only truth about Wordpress being so successful is its theme availability. Envato can for sure be responsible partially for its success.

It's not that Wordpress is good, or great or that much extensible. One could easily look for ExpressionEngine or Craft, if that would be the case.

But if you want a 1-click install, plus slap a 50$ theme on it, and your stuff to look pretty good, Wordpress is a viable solution.

However, if you want to customise stuff yourself, things become really dreadful very quickly. Anyone saying otherwise, hasn't done so.

All the other stuff, about any of its "goodness" as addressed here in the article, is basically the author doesn't knowing any better, what a real CMS is supposed to do.

[busterarm]

> However, if you want to customise stuff yourself, things become really dreadful very quickly. Anyone saying otherwise, hasn't done so.

Before I understood hooks & filters as publish-subscribe? sure. Afterwards? No way.

Do you want to know what's dreadful? Having a content team that needs to build 10k pages of content in a Rails site.

Do you know what's not dreadful? Having a content team that needs to build 10k pages of content on WordPress.

The latter can be supported by just me. The former? I don't even know.

[simbalion]

It's not especially difficult to customize a wordpress theme. At some point people who are not developers need to hand the reigns over to developers.

I often see posts from people asking someone to teach them PHP in a few days so they can modify their Wordpress install, and I think why would anyone who's spent 2 decades learning how to do these things for their bread and butter want to do that?

If developing is your career then you've got time to learn, and if you don't got time to learn then pay someone who's made it their career.