[wp-hackers] Proposing WP Flavours (various WordPress forks) (Jean-Patrick Smith)

[Dave R]

Indeed interesting, as those plugins add functionality that is one of the
glaring ommissions from WP truly being a CMS rather than a blog platform,
plus you've dismissed them without offering an alternative solution. Custom
Fields in my opinion while part of the core architecture are more of a
"hack" functionality wise for aiming to provide true CMS capabilities.

So what's better: Core architecture but inadequate functionality for a true
CMS.

Or "breaking" core architecture but delivering true CMS capabilities?

Worthy of discussion me thinks.

Plus, do plugins by their very nature "break" the core architecture on most
occasions?

Cheers,
Dave



2009/12/19 Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>

> On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Eric Marden wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Dave R wrote:
> >> Tell me, would you rate PodsCMS above Flutter? Used Flutter recently for
> the
> >> first time, found good and bad, so curious for next major project.
> >
> > I wouldn't personally recommend either plugin, for a variety of reasons,
> but specifically because they break with the WP Core architecture in
> significant ways.
>
> Interesting. In your opinion how would a plugin have to implement the
> functionality of Pods/Flutter while still maintaining the WP Core
> architecture? (this is an honest question, not a baited one.)
>
> -Mike
>
>
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