WordPress does not bode well for the roll-your-own crowd; that is, if you aren't able to leverage a custom backend designed to solve business requirements that WP cannot out of the box.
I started out in PHP years ago and WP put me out of business for custom PHP work -- thankfully ;-)
These days if the client wants some dirt cheap WP bling, I say ok...and then do the shop cart, custom etc. in Scala on the backend -- both client and coder are happy, nice mix.
Can do all what? What WordPress can do out of the box is far less than what it can't do, which is every custom website functionality one can imagine; thus the custom backend.
I agree, trying to stretch WordPress, Drupal, etc. beyond core functionality is asking for pain, not to mention dog slow performance.
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WordPress does not bode well for the roll-your-own crowd; that is, if you aren't able to leverage a custom backend designed to solve business requirements that WP cannot out of the box.
I started out in PHP years ago and WP put me out of business for custom PHP work -- thankfully ;-)
These days if the client wants some dirt cheap WP bling, I say ok...and then do the shop cart, custom etc. in Scala on the backend -- both client and coder are happy, nice mix.
WordPress can do all that. It's just an unnecessary pain.
"WordPress can do all that"
Can do all what? What WordPress can do out of the box is far less than what it can't do, which is every custom website functionality one can imagine; thus the custom backend.
I agree, trying to stretch WordPress, Drupal, etc. beyond core functionality is asking for pain, not to mention dog slow performance.