The days of WordPress being used for only blogging are long gone. I have many, many multimillion dollar clients using it as the hub for their whole company (none of which have blogs). It's crazy how it just...works. A little PHP-FPM tweaks here, a couple NGINX tweaks there, and you're off to the races. Very little maintenance, almost no downtime ever.

You are probably the cleanest WP + PHP developer in history, who contrary to the messed up ecosystem of WP plugins has clean coding style that puts everyone else in the WP ecosystem to shame then, or those multimillion dollar companies don't actually need that much functionality on their sites.

Even the data structures in a default WP setup, making everything as post types is silly for anything not a blog and I wouldn't build anything on top of that ever again. Most of the examples (all I ever saw?) for themes are silly, because they use concattenation for HTML templating, instead of composition. Not long and a theme will become messy, unless one is very vigilant, but then code reuse inside the same theme obviously suffers.

Basically the whole ecosystem is full of anti patterns that one would avoid usually, but that somehow have become the tutorial samctified way to do things in WP.

> You are probably the cleanest WP + PHP developer in history, who contrary to the messed up ecosystem of WP plugins has clean coding style that puts everyone else in the WP ecosystem to shame then

When you give people the power to do anything and dozens, or even hundreds of millions of people start doing anything and everything they can think of, many will create major messes. That happens with anything that becomes extremely widely used.

> or those multimillion dollar companies don't actually need that much functionality on their sites.

The WP world is so big that it has its own specializations and their subspecializations. You cant imagine what kind of complexity is involved in such systems and the variety of the problems that are being solved.

What WP does is to solve the problem of launching, running and maintaining A LOT of things right out of the bat, allowing you to build even more complex things. There are widely used plugins for many things ranging from using replicated databases to launching full fledged software/app store websites. The enterprise WP world builds on it instead of rejecting what others already built and are maintaining.

WP runs 50% of all the websites at the moment. 30% of all ecommerce websites. And 'website' means anything ranging from the sites of CNN, Reuters to the $5 florist shop site a flower shop owner in Oregon just launched without knowing anything about programming...

It works. That's whats important.

No doubt you're right, but the "just works" part kinda just seems like it's to be attributed to the LEMP stack no?

I just wonder if a lot of these shops would be better off starting from something like OctoberCMS or all the Laravel add-ons like Nova or Spark which give you Admin and Billing UIs pretty instantly?

there is something to be said about the huge installed base of WP. one radical new plugin that is not deterred by the "blogging" typecasting can change the world.

wp's appeal is the admin/cms backend which can be used by nearly anyone. it can also be deployed nearly anywhere, easily.