As someone who develops in PHP, and continues to be generally annoyed by the way many HN commenters will dismiss the language out of hand, I really hate to be the one saying this.<p>However, while PHP has come a long way and modernised significantly in terms of development practise, WordPress is really not an example of that modernisation. It may have applications for a basic blog, but I find it very difficult to take a Wordpress-built project seriously when it's supposedly aimed at developers and includes auth/signup + handling user credentials.