I've never tried learning WordPress, I know they say it makes building stuff easy, but I just enjoy writing code, man. It's fun.
Do you use AI while deveoping if no you are legend
Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
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Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#32Depends on your goal. If you’re not interested in hand-maintaining the code of the website(s), and you just want a nice GUI for publishing pages/posts/etc., then I’d say use some hosted platform like Squarespace. For actually learning how to build websites, start with something more low-level and barebones like a static site generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.), or even plain GitHub Pages without a static site gene…
What if i say my start was from wordpress so what shoyld I use then lets say I know basics of html and other built some php functions but now I wanna code without using AI
Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
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Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#34I find it a bit odd that none of the comments so far have mentioned LLMs.
Astro with a good understanding of how to build using a coding agent (my go to is the BMAD method)
Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#35Depends on your goal. If you’re not interested in hand-maintaining the code of the website(s), and you just want a nice GUI for publishing pages/posts/etc., then I’d say use some hosted platform like Squarespace. For actually learning how to build websites, start with something more low-level and barebones like a static site generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.), or even plain GitHub Pages without a static site gene…
What if i say my start was from wordpress so what shoyld I use then lets say I know basics of html and other built some php functions but now I wanna code without using AI
In that case, I would consider a lightweight static site generator.
It sounds like you're fairly new to programming, so I would suggest a static site generator that is easy to install and use.
Zola[1] is less well-known, but it's easy to install and fast. I tend to use Hugo[2] the most these days, which is fast and has solid documentation, but its template syntax is really annoying compared to Zola.
[1]: https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overvi...
Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#36I've always been a big fan of the WordPress community, which is a part of how WordPress works. A few years ago Wordpress would have definitely been my go to, but there are a ton of alternatives now (great suggestions in the comments here)
Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#37No No No, start building websites with Claude Code, even if you don't know the basics of coding that's going to give you a better and more secure website.
WordPress was a good idea over a decade ago if you were doing affiliate marketing and couldn't code. But now everyone can code.
Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#38As others have noted, WordPress is complex to setup/administer. If you are just prototyping/learning, try https://ht-ml.app
It is free, and doesn't require any backend setup.
Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#39No. Wordpress requires overly complex administration and deployment. There’s just a lot that goes on with Wordpress, and you’d need a VPS to deploy it just by the nature of Wordpress. If you’re building a static site - meaning, a site which does not have any forms which require backend functions - you should use a static site generator. If you’re not building a static site, I recommend starting with a static site. It…
Yea wordpress is overly complex for no reason at all. And suprisingly learning html is easier haha
Re: Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
#40Websites or web apps?
For web apps, Rails, Django, Laravel. React is the "standard" client framework of the last number of years. Perhaps someone can give advice about those web techs.