I wish this were the case. I have to manage multiple Wordpress sites and it’s backend is a sticky mess of outdated PHP conventions and plugins with no oversight whatsoever. If you’ve ever had to migrate sites or move new content from one site to another, if you’ve ever had to shift domains or deal with multi-site configurations, you will realize that Wordpress makes things easy for the end-user but there’s a reason there are so many managed Wordpress offerings out there.
I’m sorry, still I’ve and I do that from time to time. Last month or so I was upgrading old WP sites from PHP 7 to work on PHP 8.2 and yes I had to manually fix stuff here and there. As you yourself said the problem isn’t WP alone, its the amounts of shit people do with it - plugins and themes very poorly coded etc.
I’ve had two very different experiences, websites that were properly coded back then and updates go very smoothly without intervention (or little) and then the run of the mill theme coded in India with 400 plugins that will all break.
astraeus@programming.dev 1 year ago
I wish this were the case. I have to manage multiple Wordpress sites and it’s backend is a sticky mess of outdated PHP conventions and plugins with no oversight whatsoever. If you’ve ever had to migrate sites or move new content from one site to another, if you’ve ever had to shift domains or deal with multi-site configurations, you will realize that Wordpress makes things easy for the end-user but there’s a reason there are so many managed Wordpress offerings out there.
TCB13@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m sorry, still I’ve and I do that from time to time. Last month or so I was upgrading old WP sites from PHP 7 to work on PHP 8.2 and yes I had to manually fix stuff here and there. As you yourself said the problem isn’t WP alone, its the amounts of shit people do with it - plugins and themes very poorly coded etc.
I’ve had two very different experiences, websites that were properly coded back then and updates go very smoothly without intervention (or little) and then the run of the mill theme coded in India with 400 plugins that will all break.