In reply to George Stephanis.

Hi George,

Thanks for stopping by to spread the good word. Alas for you, it's not my first regatta so I'm not buying it. I've been listening to the same horse manure about updates for the last eight years and cleaning up broken websites behind the so-called perfect updates.

It's exactly this holier-than-art-thou attitude which sticks in my craw:

a theme that was properly built using the right core APIs in WordPress 1.0 or 1.5 or whatever, you should be able to upgrade that site directly to 4.2.2 and everything would still work

Not the real world, George. To start with, "the right way" has always been a moving target.

A recent example: 4.2.2 took down a slew of people's larger Wordpress sites with database issues. Once again it was up to Foliovision to lead the way in helping people fix their broken Wordpress sites.

4.2.2 was supposed to be a minor update. So go and sell your feel good propaganda to someone (with less experience) who is buying.

Wordpress is a terrible choice for business sites as it is not a stable platform and does not offer security updates. Building Wordpress business sites is my business, so you can imagine how it pains me to write that. The Wordpress update schedule is completely irresponsible, more suitable to high school bbs software than mature business calibre software. Site-breaking updates should happen once year, not more.

You and Automattic are misleading people deliberately for commercial advantage. It's the same empty promise of BMW: great engineering and performance. Sure: when your car is running. I feel sick that I've sold so many people and small businesses on Wordpress over the years and they have to spend so much time and money just to keep their website on the road.

I thought stability and security would get better one day, but I now see it never will. The same reckless and irresponsible attitude permeates Wordpress core now as when many of you were still in school (2007).