On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > As a whole - you're right. But. You know there's a but right? > > I've been running well over 100+ WP blogs for the last several years (maybe > close to 200), with nifty plugins. Not a single security leak to be found or > had <knock on wood>. > > No issues updating. > No issues with plugins going bad. > > Of course I use plugins that have active developers and that have active > support.
Yeah, it's just my luck that the folks I've supported choose themes and plugins that aren't mainstream. =) One theme was pretty actively maintained, but it still lagged behind the main "engine", and what do you do when there's critical security flaws with the version you're running, but upgrading means losing your "face", so to speak? And then there's the "canned" deal-- most people want something custom, and the active stuff is active because lots of folks use it. Nice little vicious circle there. Really it is nice, because it gives people work making themes. But they do need to keep them up to date... ;-) Yay for job security. =) To be clear, these challenges face *any* kind of deal that supports a theme/plugin architecture. Too bad, so sad-- plugin architecture ROCKS! I've been meaning to make some themes for Mura myself. Easy money right there, mark my words. Which is probably why I haven't done any yet. It would ruin my whole "po-boy coder" image. An image which is apparently more important than paying the bills. Or something like that... man I'm a trip. Er- woman I'm a trip, even. =) > Soooo. I don't know man. Ain't nothing to do with PHP versus CFML in this > case. I love CF a whole lot more. I can dig it. =) > But. > > Wordpress? It's just a great product. And FREE. And today's WP 2.8+ and > above is easy peasy one button updating. For the whole install and plugins. > Hell, you can let it do all of it at the same time AND it backs up your crap > for ya. :) The only snag, for me, is that I like to deploy on a read-only system. Tosses all the easy peasy out the window. Don't get me wrong, it's still pretty easy. But the main problem with it, as with any large-scale framework/convention based deal, is that getting it to do exactly what you want can be a real bitch. Getting close isn't too hard though, and most folks will pay pretty good for close. Or not even close, really, =) > Can't beat that with a stick. I like easy, but easy is not all that and a bag of chips. =)p |>eN -- I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. John Stuart Mill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324473 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
