Why Wordpress is the framework of the future (speakerdeck.com)

I honestly don't understand how the giant garbled mess of code that is wordpress could be considered a Framework.

God, I hope not. Part OO, part FSM, all code soup.

Awful, just awful.

I was expecting satire. Not what I got.

I would have accepted a caveat like "...for people who don't know how to code, but want a CMS". Like the client who told me - and I quote - "I would love to have HTML5, but PHP is fine".

Worked on Wordpress plugins and nothing but pure pain. It's a big mess and although it's easy to pick up because many people use PHP, it is a mess!

Whilst I tend to agree with the other comments that there's a lot of code, and it's far from elegant to develop into, from an end-user perspective, there's no match to Wordpress. User-interface is easy to understand and use, you have tons of very useful plugins (of course some are horrid). For a non-developer or a beginner PHP developer it gives you a very nice framework to build a blog or a CMS platform. Plus - unlike frameworks like django or rails, installing it and getting running from day 1 is a breeze.

Currently this is no. 40 on HN. At 35, "Move Over WordPress, There's A New CMS In Town".

I think the reason that Wordpress isn't the framework of the future is that it's not a beautiful experience for BOTH beginners and expert web developers. If it were, and both sets of developers could be talking the same language at different levels of abstraction, a framework like Wordpress could probably become the dominant way to create things on the web.