Many people, clients and developers, now turn to Wordpress as a de facto solution to the content management system puzzle. It seems to me that wp is still caught between stools though. It started life as a blogging tool, and although a blog can be an ideal structure for a website for some, it's a square peg in a round hole for most. Wordpress realised this a long time ago right enough and over several releases has released features, recently custom types and taxonomies, that attempt to shave the peg's corners. Plug-in developers also realised the gap between need and provision - possibly wp's biggest strength is that it was developed in php/mysql making custom tie-in reasonably painless - and there is now a staggering array of CMS type features that can be added to Wordpress. It still feels like it needs a tap with a wooden mallet though!

Don't get me wrong... I really like Wordpress - it's my favourite tool of the bunch, and it's a complex, powerful application which is probably the way to go for most website developments now. The question is whether wp developers should continue adding features to the core, running the risk of making it bloated and too hard to use for bloggers, or rely on developers to find ways of tying-in custom development. I guess I don't have a lot of faith in the one-size-fits-all argument, in my experience clients almost always expect a one-size solution to do something unique!