> there are a lot of great products out there that are built much better than WordPress and I wish one of them were the dominant player.
Honest question: Can you name one?
I'm seriously looking for a WordPress alternative, but I haven't found one that is truly BETTER.
Re:WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” Released
by cooperadymas on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @07:08PM
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What I mean by this is others have a better structured, more solid & easily extendable code base, better separation between presentation and logic, etc.. Obviously, this is somewhat of an opinion, and it only refers to the underlying structure. For the end user, WordPress is probably the best. A large part of this is due to its ecosystem of plugins and themes. You shouldn't need to build custom code on top of WordPress unless you are doing something very unique, building an application (as opposed to a "website"), or attempting to tie together several plugins.
Sticking with PHP, both http://modx.com/ and http://www.silverstripe.org/ are fairly popular and well-built. I've also heard good things of http://www.concrete5.org/ , http://www.movabletype.com/ , http://textpattern.com/ , and http://ellislab.com/expressionengine . http://habariproject.org/en/ has also been built specifically to address many of the faults in WordPress and other popular systems.
Re:WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” Released
by eclipticplane on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @10:14PM
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Isn't MoveableType in Perl?
Re:WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” Released
by cooperadymas on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @08:43AM
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Possibly - I've never done anything with it. The PHP statement was really only for the first two, sorry for the confusion!
depending on what type of project you are building you might want to have a look at yeager (http://www.yeager.cm). although the site states beta, the tool is stable and used in live environments since several years.
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms provides some good trends of the big players, but I wouldn't put too much stock in it.
That said, as a developer who has fallen into the WordPress business out of necessity, there are a lot of great products out there that are built much better than WordPress and I wish one of them were the dominant player. Still, WP manages to get the job done most of the time.