Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#1

Post by psikomanjak » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 7:45 PM UTC

What's the best alternative to WordPress right now after all the drama?

Considering I am a javascript person.

None of the solutions right now seem to be close.

Not even ghost.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#2

Post by nunobrito » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:03 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#3

Post by mattl » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:11 PM UTC

Eleventy if you're a JavaScript person maybe?

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#4

Post by runjake » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:13 PM UTC

Recent similar Ask HNs with discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

I think it'd best to just stay. I see one of two likely things happening:

1. Matt comes to his senses and formally secedes his control of the WordPress Foundation and WordPress OSS to a qualified group of people.

2. He doesn't and the project gets forked to something that gets traction and will be immediately compatible.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#5

Post by marpstar » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:18 PM UTC

http://payloadcms.com -- I'm all in after 12 years on WP.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#6

Post by legitster » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:18 PM UTC

Same boat.

As we all realize, WordPress itself is not an immaculate piece of code, but it's the plugin library that makes it. But we now know that even the plugins themselves are liable to hijacking from within.

While it would be nice to start from scratch with a modern, better CMS - the reality is going to be something like ClassicPress but using only premium, manually installed plugins.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#7

Post by twapi » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:22 PM UTC

If you don't want a simple commenting system, go for Hugo.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#8

Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

Is Drupal still a thing?

I have always considered Drupal to be a pretty industrial-strength system, but quite complex.

One of the nice things about Drupal, is that you could customize the backend. I have always hated WP's backend.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#9

Post by jdboyd » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

I moderately frequently wonder what is next for me after WordPress. The drama has nothing to do with it though. I don't use WP Engine (have long thought they seemed off), and I don't see the drama causing wordpress.org or wordpress.com to fall.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#10

Post by pathartl » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 8:27 PM UTC

I've moved my personal site/blog over to Grav. I've done some small work with Statamic before and loved it.