You’re not alone, I’ve still got clients with WP sites and it feels more and more patchworky every time I use it. The vulnerabilities may keep me up at night, but it would take a ton of effort to move them over, and my clients certainly don’t want to pay for that.
Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 2 months agoRight? At this point I’m just sticking with WordPress because I can’t be bothered to migrate a bunch of sites off of it. Every year for the past decade it’s felt jankier. Tumblr’s backend has to be a dumpster fire for this to seem like a good idea.
My criticism aside, WP still has the convenience factor of being the open source web platform that has a plugin for just about any need. Whether those plugins are gonna break for site or introduce interesting new vulnerabilities is a different discussion.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months ago
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I see this all the time. People complain about WP but think the alternatives are better, when they’re just trading problems for others.
WP core is stable AF. I’ve shared in many prior comments how I spend so many more dev hours fixing other CMSes over WP.
And if you don’t even need a CMS, fuck it all and switch to static hosting and markdown.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Oh yeah, for sure. Joomla still haunts my dreams.
All of my own sites are static because it’s easy for me to modify. But my clients need something a bit more user friendly, unfortunately.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months ago
Same boat here. I had some good times with it but these days it seems to be a bloated mess. Are there any good, lightweight alternatives these days?
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Depends on what exactly you want to host. If you want commercially-hosted stuff, I’d stick with wordpress or whatever your host offers, but if you’re selfhosting I’d look in !selfhosted@lemmy.world or github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?….
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months ago
I suppose what I'm looking for is a lightweight, multi-user CMS, with support for both static pages and a blog. If the blog could support (at least one-way) federation that'd be a bonus. It should ideally be built to work with both desktop and mobile devices (so that I can customise the look rather than build it from scratch).
It's something I could build from scratch but if I can do it then I'm sure lots of more skilled people have done it better!
houseofkeb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
When I dug into this for myself I landed on Ghost!
ghost.org
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Wordpress is all of those except lightweight, though I wouldn’t really say it’s a bear to manage either. I believe they have initial activitypub support as well.
You can check the selfhosted list for alternatives, but I don’t think I’ve seen one that would be a better fit.
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been looking off and on for a few months, but it seems like there aren’t many options anymore like there were 20 years ago. A couple I’ve found are FlatPress and WriteFreely, but I haven’t tried any yet.