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And those products that do scratch itches and grow and evolve tend to have widely criticized code bases.

Maybe. But wordpress is just plain illogical. I heard people trying to use wordpress as an ecommerce platform. WTF? Wordpress is a blogging platform first and foremost.

WIkipedia keeps being an encyclopedia, linux keeps being an OS, mysql keeps being a database, firefox keeps being a browser, and so on.

Wordpress? It's a blogging platform that sometime have an ecommerce plugin tacked into it.



If you still think of it as being a mere blogging platform, you haven't been paying attention. Woocommerce, which is just one of dozens of ecommerce solutions running WordPress has over half a million downloads. Clearly people & businesses don't adhere to your logic.


Clearly people & businesses don't adhere to your logic.

And the entire post is agreeing with me.




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