WordPress lead developer Andrew Nacin spoke at the php[world] 2014 conference on “Challenging Your WordPress Assumptions from 2009.” The video was recently published on YouTube and provides an excellent overview of the major ways WordPress has changed over the past six years.
Nacin explores common assumptions, such as “WordPress is insecure,” “WordPress doesn’t scale,” and “WordPress is not OOP,” among others. Some of these assumptions are false, some are true, some used to be true and others are partially true. If you’re a PHP developer who is new to WordPress or curious about how it’s changed over the years, this presentation will give you a quick 30 minute overview.
Check out the video embedded below to learn more about WordPress’ philosophy for building user-centered software, its commitment to maintaining backwards compatibility, and how major publishers and companies are using it in innovative ways.
The ability for it to scale or not scale isn’t very relevant if the product continues to have repeated security holes – especially those in default files and “wordpress owned” plugins and themes.
WordPress also continues to face the problems of inefficient or poorly indexed queries, and a myriad of issues related to plugins, their coding, their efficiency, and of course the security that comes with it.
It’s a pretty good product, but much like Google’s Chrome, it is getting loaded down with more and more “neat features” and getting to be less and less what it is.