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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...and the WordPress codebase is utterly horrible. I don't envy them at all.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know what you mean? How could a codebase so often patched for exploits and problems be so horrible, surely it’s a shining example of all that is good with the internet? ;-)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean it's probably the codebase most targeted, so it makes sense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I was supporting a WordPress site and we've had issues getting blacklisted by Internet providers because some WP scripts were in the malware database (local file matching WP github exactly). What a nightmare.