It's not only Wordpress. There's also Drupal, Joomla and the myriad of plugins written for them, as well as forums software like Vanilla, phpbb and vBulletin. Actually, I predict a resurgence in forum software popularity as more people realize Reddit is for suckers; there is of course Discourse, but that's like New Reddit, looks cool until you use it and realize it's kinda shit.
Those are rounding errors compared to WordPress[0]. BTW, I'm neutral on WP. I've used it before and it was fine, but I don't work for Automattic or anything. I think it's the elephant in the PHP room, though. No one can claim that PHP is only used for WordPress, but I bet that the majority of PHP installations are there because that's what WP happens to be written in.
[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management
Re:Whats New in PHP 8.2
by the_only_law on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:13PM
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I’ve thought about returning to old times and spinning up a phpBB site.
Smf reminds me of old times. phpBB is still active.
Re:Whats New in PHP 8.2
by the_only_law on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:02PM
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Yeah, I just haven’t used one in over a decade. Most of the communities I used to use had one.
Try discourse with javascript disabled, much more usable.
I wonder if PHP:Wordpress is becoming like Ruby:Rails, where there’s no reason you can’t use the language for other things, but in practice it’s mostly used for one specific purpose?
[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...