Wordpress is terrible, but none of the ways in which it's terrible matter. From the point of view of the user, Wordpress is incredibly simple and intuitive. Don't underestimate how important it is for the average user to never see a terminal, and rarely if ever see the source code, for the application to feel comfortable to people most familiar with Windows applications and web forms. Anything more technical than that is intimidating. Most people who use Wordpress aren't programmers, don't wan

This is my first HN comment - I must be the only WP developer who reads Hacker News or something. Let me preface this by saying I'm not going to be repeating what's already been said about non-technical user friendliness. WordPress was my gateway in 2008-9 to web development. back when I was still a graphic design student. I started off hacking away at themes with my extremely limited HTML / CSS / PHP knowledge back then. Shit, my Google-fu was't really even halfway decent then. Toda

> Wordpress is terrible That's open to debate. I have 3 websites running on Wordpress, I don't have the intent to use anything else. It's simple and comes with batteries attached, especially for people who aren't hacking the code themselves. The plugins/themes are a big plus and so is the community. In what way is it terrible? Have you used it enough? > CMS as a whole is bad No. CMSes serve a purpose and serve it well. Btw, TechCrunch, Fortune.com run on Wordpress too. > Why has no one

1) Superior installability (and in recent releases, update-ability). This doesn't preclude others from making something better, but WP makes incredible ease of installation/deployment (including of themes, plugins, updates, etc.) "table stakes." That's a genuine "barrier to market entry" for any contender. IME, nothing else comes close to WP installability. There are some glitches around updates (esp. if themes and such have been customized), but updates are also increasingly smooth/au

WordPress may be terrible for us developers who are trying to hack on it, but the Admin area for WordPress is stupid easy for how much functionality it contains. Tens of thousands of plugins to do almost anything you could possibly ever need to do. When you're building websites for a client on a budget, the availability of plugins goes a long way.

Few thoughts. 1) It's "good enough". Sure it is slow. Sure it is kind of buggy. Sure it gets hacked a lot. But at the end of the day, it mostly works. Harder to disrupt something that mostly works. 2) Traction. It has 1000s of plugins and themes. To get big, someone else would need a lot of plugins and themes. But no one will make plugins and themes for someone that is not big. 3) ease of use. I know a lot of people that WP admin and make WP websites for a living. They are not technical in th