8 years later and now I'm getting the 4 1's joke.

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It's a legit April Fools'.

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This for "a spiritual successor to WordPress".

I did that once, employed someone on Fiverr to do a WordPress site. They installed a load of plugins for no reason, made a mess, then gave me my money back. I went back to a static site.

That has been my experience, low barrier to entry, low price, shoddy work. Or hire an agency, pay top dollar for little work.

I can assure you this is not an April Fools. Cloudflare does not do that.

It should. I miss the days when tech was interesting and fun.

Even Steve Jobs, for all his later-day revisionist hard-assed reputation, enjoyed the occasional Easter egg, inside joke, or April Fool's joke.

It stores plugins as strings in the database, then pulls those strings back and evals them as PHP on requests.

"Better coded" is very much a subjective assessment.

I think you need to account for the base rate. There's a lot of WordPress plugin vulnerability disclosures because there's a lot of WordPress plugins and there are enough deployments of the plugins to make searching for those vulnerabilities is worthwhile.

That site warns that WordPress plugins can be abandoned, but that's clearly not a WordPress specific issue. Sure some site could use SSG, but that's a different design.

I certainly don't want to claim WordPress security is good, but I'm not sure that site is measuring anything meaningful.

Lets skip the part where i say "how is it sloppy, can you show me" and you say "just look at it, cmon" and "I say no really i don't know" and you say "do your own research" and i say "I really don't know, I'm don't work this high in the stack, please help me understand".

Instead let's just discuss: how is it sloppy, can you show me?

> wordpress is valuable because it allows very bad developers / marketing people to write very bad code and get away with it, driving extremely low cost solutions for clients who are cost concious.

You've sort of nailed it, but this isn't a bad thing. An alternative for these customers does not exist.

There's another vertical which is organizations that have armies of writers churning out content. Any kind of publisher or advertiser, basically. There is no better CMS for this. Large organizations like NYT, etc chose to write their own.