Against your recommendation, because obviously you are so knowledgeable about security and all, right?Judging from your insightful "avoid PHP because it's for newbs"comment above...
You _do_ know that some of he largest sites on earth run on Wordpress, right?
And those sites became large because people could get them up and running quickly which is what made PHP a popular language. Hobbyist programmers made it what it is, and many of those hobbyist programmers went on to build big companies... Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Mullenweg, just to name a few.