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Re:EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin sec... by thisislife2 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:58PM (#47603481)
There's always https://textpattern.com/ which is also as old as Wordpress (older?) and better coded. (See also thttps://textpattern.org/ ).
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Re:EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin sec... by zdragnar on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:21PM (#47603784)
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.

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Re:EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin sec... by BodyCulture on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:37AM (#47610358)
Thank you very much for sharing your research results!

I really appreciate your work and even more that you took time and risk exposing your findings, I wish more people did this.

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