Fuck Wordpress

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One of the comments on that post sums it up pretty well.

Unless you have the facility customise the code, Wordpress is probably the worst choice for a busy blog. Being open source make its routines available to every wanabe hacker on the planet.
If I ran Wordpress on our blog network we would need to triple the server capacity just to handle the crazy number of php calls.
I would rather let my server use its time working out the sponsor ad delivery instead of a bunch of dumb routines that do little more than decide what theme or plugins are installed.
Just look at the Wordpress default css and you will see where it’s all leading.

Those high traffic news sites aren't using an out-of-the-box installation of WP. A lot of code has been tossed/optimized. I have the feeling that a lot of coders who have sifted through WP's script pages in order to optimize it probably wish they had created their own platform instead. I don't want to make it sound like WP is shit. It's not. It's an excellent platform for the average user.