Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

• Peepolo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most large publishing companies, the white house and various government departments all use WordPress for their main sites. Its the third party integrations that cause security issues, not the core code.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet the third party integrations are pretty much the whole point of WordPress.

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    • Peepolo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indeed, but using poor ones is what causes the wrong opinions that WordPress isn’t solid.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, and who is vetting the plugins? How often are unmaintained plugins replaced in those popular websites? How quickly are vulnerabilities patched and applied?

        The whole thing is easy to set up, but unlikely to be properly maintained.

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