When we created RK-CMS, we were inspired by WordPress. We love how everything is designed there: how user-friendly it is, how well-thought-out the architecture is, and how flexible the system is to customize.
But it's important to understand the difference between being inspired by and copying.
There are stories in the market of developers taking an existing WordPress engine, cutting out what they consider "unnecessary" features, cleaning up the code, and trying to pass off this stripped-down version as their own unique development.
RK-CMS is different. It's not a reworked WordPress. Every line of code, every function, and every architectural element was written from scratch and independently.
You may notice that some functions in RK-CMS have the same names as in WordPress.
For example, if you need to assign your function to a filter, you use the add_filter function, just like in WordPress. The name is the same, and that's convenient: you immediately understand what it does. However, the similarity ends with the name. Their internal logic is completely different. If you dig deeper, you'll find that they work differently and often produce different results or have different meanings.
The only conceptual similarity is the hooks and filters (events) system. The very idea of "intercepting" data at the right moment is very convenient, and we support it. But even here, the implementation is based on our own architecture. So, the principle is similar, but the technical design is different.
RK-CMS is an independent system. We took the convenience of WordPress as our starting point, but created our own product with its own core components and logic.
