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WP is more successful than Rails and Django because WP is a blogging system and more people need a blog than they do a development framework. Secondly, it's successful because it's in PHP. But successful because it's "not like Rails", are you kidding me?

Also, check the damn tutorial. A line for url routing, a couple of lines to fetch some data from the DB and then a couple of lines to render a template. There's nothing scary about it. The reason people find it so easy to make and mod WordPress themes is because they can start from existing code. If they'd have to make one from scratch without the ability to copy-paste or look at existing themes, 90% of 'em wouldn't even know where to get started, no matter how good everything would be documented. There's no reason why this same learn-by-copy-pasting routine couldn't work on top of an MVC approach. Beginning programmers do learn Rails and Django, y'know. Hundreds every day.