Hopefully the White House has access to someone who knows how to set up WordPress without shooting themselves in the foot.
The fact that WordPress.com doens't get hacked all the time means that there are definitely people who know how to do it.
The fact that WordPress.com doens't get hacked all the time means that there are definitely people who know how to do it.
Regular reminder that wordpress.com is a different software product to wordpress.org :)
wordpress.com runs their (relatively) newer JavaScript-based stack; wordpress.org (which is what we're talking about here, unless I misread the article referenced here completely) is the LAMP stack version.
It's written in JavaScript; it runs on node.js - at least the front-end part of it (https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso). I don't know what is running on the backend but I don't think it's LAMP?
The point I was making though is that "WordPress" can mean two different things - wordpress.org (the self-hosted LAMP version) or wordpress.com, which is a SaaS offering (so the language is more or less irrelevant unless you're really interested in running your own admin frontend, I guess).
Calypso is our JS dashboard that lets you manage all your sites in one place, plus get cool WP.com features like stats and notifications. It's just a REST API client, just like the iOS and Android apps.