Against your recommendation, because obviously you are so knowledgeable about security and all, right?Judging from your insightful "avoid PHP because it's for newbs"comment above...
You _do_ know that some of he largest sites on earth run on Wordpress, right?
Those large sites sure have a whole team attending them. And can update it 24/7.
And those sites became large because people could get them up and running quickly which is what made PHP a popular language. Hobbyist programmers made it what it is, and many of those hobbyist programmers went on to build big companies... Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Mullenweg, just to name a few.