Is WordPress Becoming Bloated?
I like WordPress–a lot. It’s been my saving grace for constructing websites without having to write the code from scratch. But it’s gotten very, very bloated. I took a look at version 3.0 and the upcoming changes. It looks ok, but it worries me for the future. Now users actually expect updates and new features on a regular and frequent basis. Whatever happened to just wanting something that worked well, and was patched for bugs and security? I’m also worried about backward compatibility of things like themes and plugins.
Part of the reason I like WordPress is because it’s written very well compared to most open source LAMP products that came before it. It has a plugin and theme API which is relatively simple to learn. I would prefer WordPress to focus on improving the robustness of the API, rather than adding new features.
Overall I’m fairly confident in WordPress’ developers to keep things straight. I just hope they’re not making changes just to keep themselves relevant.
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