Wordpress is powered by PHP. Lots of it. Generally Django/Python developers like myself have a vendetta against PHP for some reason. I suppose it’s because they find Python so much more efficient, and PHP is incredibly hard to get complex projects done with. Personally, I don’t have a problem with PHP. I don’t use it anymore (two years, cold turkey), but I’m not altogether against it either.
But since I’m a Django developer, why am I using Wordpress for my personal site? It’s obvious, isn’t it? Sure I could easily develop a blogging solution in Django. There are so many of them. Bruce Kroeze and gang are currently working on a pretty promising looking Django blogging all-in-one solution called Banjo. But still I have opted to use Wordpress simply for this reason: it’s developed. PHP usage aside, Wordpress is a great app that makes blogging extremely simple to do. I could spend—even in Django—several hours developing something of my own that compares to it, or I could just embrace it and use it to simplify my life.
I choose Wordpress.
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Interesting, never heard of it.
Interesting, never heard of it.
Until you get hacked!
Having just spent last week cleaning up two hacked Wordpress installations, both hacked in completely different ways, I can say that Wordpress may seem the simple solution in the short term but don’t get too comfortable.
In the cases I mention the sites had lagged in keeping up with the Wordpress updates and therefore missed various security updates. Updating Wordpress itself is tedious but bearable as long as you aren’t relying on the plugins you may be using being compatible with each version of Wordpress you need to update to.
Well thanks for the concern. I’m a firm believer in staying updated and security so maybe I can avoid too many problems.
Until you get hacked!
Having just spent last week cleaning up two hacked Wordpress installations, both hacked in completely different ways, I can say that Wordpress may seem the simple solution in the short term but don’t get too comfortable.
In the cases I mention the sites had lagged in keeping up with the Wordpress updates and therefore missed various security updates. Updating Wordpress itself is tedious but bearable as long as you aren’t relying on the plugins you may be using being compatible with each version of Wordpress you need to update to.
Well thanks for the concern. I’m a firm believer in staying updated and security so maybe I can avoid too many problems.