Hi Brian. There has been lots of progress, but unfortunately, not all of it has been in the right direction... So we're working on v17.1 now... For more details, please see the blog posts tagged with '17.x'.

IIRC WordPress was what you are after right? I'll try to get that into the next batch. Although as noted in the blog posts, I'm not sure when we'll have OVAs.

You are right, it's been a while, but unfortunately, it's still not done yet. My deepest apologies on that. It's pretty embarrassing really, as our current WordPress app (which is incidentally one of our most popular) is getting very dated now and seriously needs an update. I suspect that it may have even turned a few new potential TurnKey users off using TurnKey. :(

To provide some context, the hold up is a combo of a good idea gone wrong and a whole raft of "behind the scenes" dramas and issues that have sidetracked me (mostly infrastructure, but other bits and pieces too).

The good idea gone wrong was to follow your (and others') hints and develop a super simple way to use newer PHP - built in from the get go. The broad idea is still sound, but the approach I initially took wasn't thought through enough and ended in a dead end. I could have persevered, but the flaw in my design would have made it harder for us to maintain in the long run. I have the seed of a much better approach, but haven't had the time to start prototyping it yet.

And that was before we had the raft of other issues that popped up (including the website being broken for days while I scrambled to work out the problem and migrate to a new server); seemingly one after another...

Anyway, I don't want to harp on about it and I certainly don't want you to think that I'm trying to make excuses. It's definitely a failure on my behalf and my deepest apologies on the ridiculous delay on this.

Regardless, hopefully you'll be glad to hear that the WordPress updated release is currently in progress! I don't have a firm ETA, but I would expect it to definitely be completed within the next month, fingers crossed, within the next couple of weeks. I'll try to remember to post back here as soon as it's available (i.e. once the image is on our mirror - even if that's before it's officially published).

Yes our WordPress appliance is based on our LAMP appliance, so if you were to install WordPress on top of LAMP then it would more-or-less get you the same outcome. Off the top of my head, beyond initial config and secret regeneration (which isn't really required if you install from scratch yourself) the only thing you'd be missing is wp-cli (WordPress admin cli tool). But if you don't use that then you won't miss it. If you want to try it out, there's no reason why you couldn't install it yourself if you wanted.