Oh the horror of Wordpress coding now MODx is here!
I have to admit it: the best-looking site I have built was done with Wordpress. I wasn't very familiar with MODx at that time, and in any case Wordpress was already established for the site. But today I had to fix a problem. And it took over an hour to track it down.
An editor who usually writes his stuff in Word and pastes it in via Notepad to strip out formatting codes had for once pasted it in straight from an email, accidentally added DIV tags that wrecked the page structure. I opened the page in Rapid PHP and use code-collapsing item by item until I spotted the extra tags in one of the posts.
This experience bought back all the pain I suffered when building the site, burrowing deep into fossilized Wordpress code to find out why unwanted P tags would appear in my forms, the endless hopping into PHP and out again in 'the Loop', the difficulty I had creating what seemed to me a basic page structure with static text at the top and aggregated posts below. Stuff that is such a breeze with MODx.
That said, Wordpress is very easy to use as a blogging engine, and I'll be going back to that site to seek inspiration (pinch ideas) for making a better blog in MODx!