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They have no frame of reference to understand or even care why Wordpress isn't actually a good fit for hosting their site.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Hosting a site for non-technical business owners
My team was spending 30+ minutes just to publish a blog post. Articles pasted from Word kept breaking styles. 20+ plugins creating a security nightmare.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running two enterprise websites and publishing blog posts
Wordpress specifically ended up in no man’s land for us. Not powerful enough for big sites with complex content types and design systems, and too big of a pain for ephemeral microsites.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: big sites with complex content types and design systems, and ephemeral microsites
Maybe the strategic move for platforms like WordPress... is to invest more in separation of admin editing from serving, such that there's an obvious path to edit your content in the CMS but deploy it as static files.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Dynamic database-backed CMS platform
the only in-browser PDF viewer I could find which supports these features was, somewhat surprisingly, the one which is provided in WordPress. It supports both.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Hosting and viewing PDFs with jump links and bookmarks via its in-browser PDF viewer
They broke it when they migrated from Wordpress to their own Condé Nast CMS.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: CMS for hosting the 'Cartoons at Random' feature
WordPress is so popular because back in the day it was the easiest way to get a website built. So it got a network effect of engineers behind it which is why it persists at 40% of websites today.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building websites
PHP is one of WordPress's advantages: it runs on basically any web host, you have no edit-compile-debug loop to worry about, and all state is temporary by default.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Website/plugin platform
A lot of sites don't really need to be in Next.js or a Jamstack at all. Wordpress would've worked fine.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Alternative for sites that don't need complex frameworks
A lot of corpsites are wordpress... those should not be running wordpress internet-facing due to its terrible performance and constant susceptibility to vulnerabilities.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running internet-facing corporate websites and handling contact forms/ecommerce
Wordpress is a useful tool to generate static sites though, I ve done that before and it s glorious. Use all the friendly authoring tools of WP and then click a button to write out an updated blob of HTML files.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Generating static sites and as a general CMS for corporate sites
I have a love hate relationship with WordPress. I love the editor, the sidebar, the ability to find niche plugins in an endless marketplace, and how easy it is to get a site running. What I don't love is how insecure it is.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building and managing personal websites
My conclusion is to move from WordPress software as fast as possible, every WordPress site I manage gets bombarded by bots.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General website/CMS platform
Most of them maintain sites for clients who need WordPress specifically. They stay because their clients stay.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Maintaining client websites
They got some marketing agency to rewrite the entire marketing site in Wordpress, and then we had to implement some godawful kludges to get our backend to redirect to their shitty WP host for the appropriate pages. It was awful.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Marketing site and blog CMS
Notion, Framer, and WordPress (depending on complexity)
ih_how-i-m-building-a-bootstrappe_wordpress • IndieHackers • Use case: general use, depending on complexity
The ubiquity of low-quality and keyword SEO optimised Wordpress based review blogs for e.g. Dropshipped Mattresses didn't destroy the blogging industry.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Creating low-quality, SEO-optimized review blogs (e.g., for dropshipped mattresses)
One of your designs (under construction) looks like it's a Wordpress template - try to avoid showing unfinished work
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Creating a template for a portfolio piece
My own recipe site: WordPress. Productively timer at timerdoro.com: react, WordPress.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building a personal recipe site and as a backend for a productivity timer
It is a website builder it is not a blog
at_398862 • AlternativeTo • Use case: Using it as a website builder
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