Hey all, I've got an earnest question about popularity.

Why is it, despite the numbers of market share, when I go to web-development conferences that no one is talking about WordPress?

I get the impression that it's viewed as uncool but I can't tell if it's just that young developers only know JavaScript stacks and don't use PHP, or if it's just viewed as an unhip uncle.

The craze of 'Headless CMS' is satisfied by JSON endpoints, but remains a solid template engine with the codex. It's free to host, and surely is not going to be abandoned by its dev community any time. PHP and MySQL versions are progressing, bringing along speed and performance.

I know what I'm doing with WordPress: I don't use many plugins, write my themes by hand using best practices of template hierarchy and taxonomies, and try not to make redundant queries in lieu of lifecycle hooks - and I find that for the most part sites are performant.

Also, I understand that it is not the tool for every job. For example, there is an awful lot of overhead and clutter for a streamlined shopping cart experience or complex user administration portals, but for straight up content publishing with limited workflow and user permission requirements I don't even know why you'd recommend something else.

I'd really like to hear from WordPress users who have a solid arguments - and counterarguments - for the worlds most popular CMS.