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Shane74340Plus:
The major thing I see with WordPress is its easy-to-customize code. I'm hoping SMF adopts something like it for the next SMF. (2.1+)
All I need to do to move the menu was to move a 5 line code snippet and the menu was moved.

I think the "issue" with SMF is the way SMF outputs everything. SMF uses the echo statement like its gold while WordPress uses plain HTML and PHP.

Just a thought to throw around.

Arantor:
WordPress's pages are also *much* simpler and don't have complex permissions to contend with, nor do they have to contend with the possibility of multiple themes the way SMF does. In WP, for example, you only have one basic layout as far as content goes (since pages and posts are handled through the exact same code)

You can move the menu in SMF by moving a one line snippet, though it's not always clear if it'll work (and the same is true of WP, based on the customisations I've done for people over the years!)

Shane74340Plus:
Thanks for the information / explanation.

I'm gonna leave this open for discussion though.

Arantor:
I would note that this has been discussed, multiple times in the last few years and the discussions always end the same way, WP is much more simplistic as a system than SMF is and it cannot cope with the complexity of layouts, or for that matter internationalisation, done that way.

Labradoodle-360:
SMF's code is easy to customize, it uses an MVC which keeps things very well organized.

What do you mean by "plain HTML and PHP"? echo is PHP...and SMF also uses 'plain' HTML and PHP. Well, actually XHTML.

And Arantor is right, you can move the menu in one line. (template_menu();)

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