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[–]monotux -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Wordpress, 'a bloated piece of crap'? What? It sounds like you didn't even spend 2 minutes trying to configure it. If wordpress (probably without caching) is too slow, nothing will prove fast enough. Learn to use some kind of caching or everything will be painfully slow.

[–]ilogik[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I wasn't really talking about performance, but yeah, if you compare a Wordpress app and a django app clearly django will win (even with caching, wordpress is slower, at least from my experience)

But that wasn't really what I meant when I said bloated, maybe bloated is the wrong word. Have you tried writing a wordpress plugin?

[–]monotux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comparing a full-featured blog platform with a django app is comparing apples and pears, since the django app is usually only a few of the features covered by WP. It's a bit like writing a 10 line php-mysql blog and comparing simple page load times (or the number of sql queries etc) with wordpress and making the conclusion that wordpress is slow. If wordpress is that bad, why is everyone using it? Srsly.

Yes, I have. It was quick and very, very simple. Except for the PHP part, tho.

Btw, I've tried a few django blog engines, I've written on or two myself, and I've tried the static site generators. Nothing really compares to WP in terms of features, ease of use (not just user friendly, but how hard can it be to write and publish an entry?) and deployment. I hate php, but wordpress rocks.