God fucking dammit.

I got assigned to a WordPress project...

I AM NOT A WORDPRESS DEVELOPER!!!

Why do I have to deal with this giant pile of stinking shit?
I'm a php developer, I make applications, I don't write fucking wordpress plugins...
WHY DOES THIS EXIST, WHY DID WORDPRESS BECOME SUCCESSFUL WHY CAN'T I JUST DEV IN PIECE.

Dear wordpress developers,

Please suffocate on a big fat old cock.

Regards.

In the same shitty situation here. Currently tweaking "the event calendar" plugins. All those fucking plugins files and hooks. That calendar thingy is depending on two other plugins. GG

But if every Wordpress dev dies, you would have to Do even more Wordpress Projects because nobody else could Do them. So let them live and flee as fast as possible.

@2xCmet is let wordpress slowly die out, and get the clients to pay for the application they need instead of this pile of garbage

It's funny how people call WordPress a pile of shit when thousands of successful websites are built around it. I'm not even a backend developer. It's just to me about bitching and moaning about a piece of software many people find very usable and decent and it works for them.
There's tons of technologies and projects around and you can pretty choose whatever you want to work on, or work for. Where's the problem?
For many "good enough" piece of shit in nice package is more than enough to start with their project and they don't want to wait 2 years for state of the art custom cms that loads one second faster than the same thing built on WordPress for fraction of the price.

^ I agree with you. WordPress is not bad. Plugins installation are super simple and smooth. One of the best thing for small businesses. Just that tweaking plugin that relies on other plugins with names like plugin-commuity , plugins-pro. Those sucks. But hey you get what you pay for. Free stuff can't complain.

Wordpress is shit, but it's shit that works, and have tons of plugins that remove hours of work.

The thing is, instead of going on plugin-installation spree, you should evaluate if it's not better to code it yourself first.

On my Wordpress site, every plugin is there for a very good reason, no one else install plugins without my consent, and I code whatever is needed in sorta clean PHP code.

Sure, it's not pretty clean code everywhere, but it took way less time than coding from <insert favorite framework here> and is maintainable.

I am not saying Wordpress is bad (I wouldn't be qualified to do so as I haven't nearly used it at all) but like nearly all other tools it exists for a reason. Not to insult you but I am pretty sure there exists a fair share of Wordpress developers that would scoff at you for being a PHP dev, and they would be as wrong as you scoffing at them for using Wordpress.

@Fradow Sounds like you are writing WordPress like anyone should be writing Node code.

@Rakota it applies to any CMS/framework for which you can easily install plugins/library, really.

Wordpress gets a lot of hate because installing plugins can be done by non-technical people using a slick GUI, then technical people gets to maintain the shit.

On <insert your framework here>, non-technical people cannot install plugins/library themselves, so shitty libraries get filtered early.

I use Python, which has overall very good libraries, but even there you have to properly check before installing. One such library had a glaring security flaw.

Node is known for lower quality libraries, so do your due diligence.

@kargaroth I'm not saying it's a useless pile of stinking shit, it saved me tons of work in webdev, however, as soon as you, as a dev, need to touch it to make anything, get ready to tear your hair out of your head.