Interestingly enough, we ended up getting some impassioned responses from developers who love WordPress.
We decided to dig deeper into this story.
Whats actually fueling this rift within the developer community and what could WordPress do to appease Stack Overflow respondents?
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There are now over 4,000 themes to choose from.
The number of plug-ins ballooned to over 50,000 options.
This also means that solutions to immediate issues are generally a quick Google away.
With64 million usersacross the globe, OLeary believes:
Theyre really the victims of their own success.
you’ve got the option to never fully yo anyone at that level of market penetration.
That kind of thing frees you from having to work within a template system.
So, Id say the downvote is probably stemming from good old fashioned frustration.
So I think that that would certainly explain why theres an awful lot of backlash from devs.
By and large, developers like to have familiarity with tools libraries that are a bit more opinionated.
So can WordPress actually keep the accessibility its fans love while modernizing its offering for frustrated devs?
In general WordPress is actually moving towards a headless direction themselves.
Or even using WordPress as an API interface/backend.
According to OLeary:
There are still a lot of people who love the platform.
It is HUGELY popular.
For me, it really depends on what the best tool is for the business or project.
Sometimes its WordPress and other times its something that offers different functionality.
