Hello Guys,
I am new to this forum. Just wanted to add some insight about wordpress from my own personal experience after a few years. Some business partners and I got down and dirty to do some investigation into the .php and template scripts of wordpress. What we found was astonishing. As you probably are already aware, wordpress has increased their updates to almost an annoying level. This was in an attempt to prevent people from hacking into the system. Well, these updates are actually leaving the door wide open for hackers. It has happened to a couple of my blogs.
What we also found in the scripts was self promotion of the template writers to market their stuff inside your WP site without being detected. I would recommend if you are going to use WP, stay with the twenty-ten template and make sure you review the source code in the template and remove all advertisements that do not belong to you.
To sum it up, I do not trust wordpress at all. The system has become highly unstable to the point where site rankings are getting worse on Alexa.
I hope this helps. I would recommend to stay away from the plugins all together.
Steven Cavan
