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by JodieBenitez 759 days ago
I love Wordpress. People install it on their own, install dozens of useless, unsecure and buggy plugins ("it's easy, just clic clic clic... I love my admin panel !") and after a while their websites break and then we can charge them for a more secure and resilient solution.
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Back in 2011, I had the pleasure to take a peak at the sociable plugin (#2 on their plugin ladderboard) and it was one of the more brittle and bloated piece of code I ever saw. Felt like an unfinished weekend project that dragged too long and ended up published, 5 screens long for loops over massive globals, duplicated to then do whatever.
They sure made it enticing to install plugins, if not just by putting this UI to the forefront. Also, when images aren’t compressed by default, it’s a perfect alliance with the various SEO analyzers which mandate you to compress them…