[jaredklewis]

Is it? I did a project with WP a very long time ago and was kind of baffled. Like it's nice to have an good rich text editor, I got that part. But the absolute monstrosities people developed to extend WP, when they could have just used MySQL and PHP directly, astounded me. Like I couldn't figure out what WP was offering? It was just like a blog that you could painfully hack into something else if you wanted to. But even at that time there were already loads of great, batteries included PHP frameworks like Symfony or Cake. Why not just skip the painful part and code what you want directly?

Anyway, I probably shouldn't comment as maybe WP has progressed but it doesn't sound like it.

[CM30]

Honestly, the reasons could mostly be summed up as "we already used WordPress for the blog, we now need to add a shop onto the existing site, might as well extend the former rather than rebuild or maintain two systems".

Alternatively, folks that aren't particularly technical hacking together a solution that works 'well enough' for what they need, and agencies that only have the interest/capacity to use one platform deciding that each and every customer needs to use that platform.

If you're a skilled programmer WordPress is probably not a good solution for your issues, but if you're more of a designer or hobbyist that wants a somewhat hacky extendable blog system it's pretty easy to use.

[tredre3]

I suspect you missed the joke: A web shell is a script to execute arbitrary commands, i.e. Remote Code Execution.

[jaredklewis]

oh haha. Yea, my brain somehow interpreted shell as framework.

But yes, I agree, WP is very useful for those times when you need to run a quick `sudo rm -rf /` command but can't get to a terminal.

[Exoristos]

You may be missing the point that the WP ecosystem is aimed at non-programmers.