Comments on: Wordpress: advantages and disadvantages? http://inchoo.net/wordpress/wordpress-as-cms/ Inchoo - E-Commerce & Magento discussion Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:20:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tomislav Bilic http://inchoo.net/wordpress/wordpress-as-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Tomislav Bilic Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:10:59 +0000 http://inchoo.net/?p=72#comment-169 Hi, yeah you are correct in all of your statements. I just pulled some user thought from a LinkedIn question I posted. I will also probably update this post and bring some conclusion on my own. Without it, this post makes not much sense. ;) Hi, yeah you are correct in all of your statements. I just pulled some user thought from a LinkedIn question I posted. I will also probably update this post and bring some conclusion on my own. Without it, this post makes not much sense. ;)

]]> By: Vladimir http://inchoo.net/wordpress/wordpress-as-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Vladimir Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:13:30 +0000 http://inchoo.net/?p=72#comment-158 <blockquote>PHP’s track record for security is pretty bad</blockquote> Security is not a part of the programming language itself, security is the part of the <strong>right</strong> development. <blockquote>Database queries may be very heavy</blockquote> This is not WordPress's issue. If you run EXPLAIN against the query that a <strong>clean</strong> WordPress installation issues, you will find that they are pretty well optimized. Performance issues/heavy queries (and even security vulnerabilities) appear when you start to use the 3rd party plugins. If a man is a good programmer, this does not mean that it understands well how the database engine works. Most of the plugins are tested in mostly clean WP installations (couple of users, several posts etc) - and without special analysis it may not be clear that the approach the author used does not scale well. <blockquote>Many of the themes have a tendency to look the same or similar</blockquote> Again, do you really think that it is WordPress disadvantage? :-) Many themes (esp. free ones) are the same inside except for copyrights/graphics

PHP’s track record for security is pretty bad

Security is not a part of the programming language itself, security is the part of the right development.

Database queries may be very heavy

This is not WordPress’s issue. If you run EXPLAIN against the query that a clean WordPress installation issues, you will find that they are pretty well optimized. Performance issues/heavy queries (and even security vulnerabilities) appear when you start to use the 3rd party plugins. If a man is a good programmer, this does not mean that it understands well how the database engine works. Most of the plugins are tested in mostly clean WP installations (couple of users, several posts etc) - and without special analysis it may not be clear that the approach the author used does not scale well.

Many of the themes have a tendency to look the same or similar

Again, do you really think that it is WordPress disadvantage? :-)
Many themes (esp. free ones) are the same inside except for copyrights/graphics

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