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by westurner 4522 days ago
1. WordPress is an application with a plugin API. It is not a framework.

2. Writing a web application without a framework is a good learning experience. For anything but small-scale local learning experiences, the risks and costs of not working with a framework are significant. [It is probable that I, with my ego, would "do it wrong" and that a community of developers has arrived at a far superior solution.]

One of the best explanations for what advantages a framework offers over basically just writing your own framework I've found is in the Symfony2 Book: "Symfony2 versus Flat PHP". [1]

[1] http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/from_flat_php_to_symfony...