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The question should be "what". Static HTML will often fit the bill
I see WP Engine touted as a solution. My limited experience with a client several months ago was "hey, we're getting really big, we need better security and better performance", they shop around, and get sold (in a literal sense) on WP Engine. Signed up, and my friend started to try to migrate things over. Oh... yeah, they don't actually support many custom plugins - you could select from some blessed ones, but the c…
What do they use so many plugins for? I took over supporting/developing a WordPress site and one of the first things I did was delete a bunch of pointless plugins. I wound up writing quite a few of my own for different tools and left some third party plugins so there are still probably 10 active between 3 sites on a multisite install. I installed Google analytics directly in the header of the custom themes on each of…
Many people treat WordPress as a fully featured CMS/CRM that runs their entire business. They often have multiple complex custom developed plugins.
I'd be very happy to use something else, more secure and better written, but what comes even close?
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What do they use so many plugins for? I took over supporting/developing a WordPress site and one of the first things I did was delete a bunch of pointless plugins. I wound up writing quite a few of my own for different tools and left some third party plugins so there are still probably 10 active between 3 sites on a multisite install. I installed Google analytics directly in the header of the custom themes on each of…
I think you're missing two things: (1) there are clients who demand administrative access, and since they pay the bills, they get it (2) maintainability. As much as I detest WordPress, and as garbage as many of the public plugins are, what would be even worse is having my team take over support for one of your sites with your custom plugins. Ramp up cost is a very real thing.
The nicest plugin I've seen [code wise] is the Jasig CAS authentication plugin, and for that I had to modify it to specify the behavior I wanted (custom 500, 501 screens, don't upsert user). So, whenever an update comes around I have to either ignore it or modify the code. Honestly, I think that's even against the license since I didn't publish my changes.
What are the alternatives? Is there any other free, self-hosted, open source CMS that out-of-the-box allows an average non-tech person to publish content, images, etc. with such ease and nicely designed admin GUI? Easy to install, can be installed on any cheap shared hosting and will work fine, has automatic updates, content is searchable, has tones of themes free or cheap to choose from, it's fairly easy to customiz…
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I think you're missing two things: (1) there are clients who demand administrative access, and since they pay the bills, they get it (2) maintainability. As much as I detest WordPress, and as garbage as many of the public plugins are, what would be even worse is having my team take over support for one of your sites with your custom plugins. Ramp up cost is a very real thing.
I suppose so. I like to think my custom plugins are well written and maintainable. I attribute this to the fact that I identity as a JavaScript engineer with some classic OO tendencies (shout out to Gilfoyle). More or less I write JavaScript and Java/C# so I'm not some dipshit writing WordPress plugins w PHP/Wordpress as my first and only language and framework. The nicest plugin I've seen [code wise] is the Jasig CA…
Told you. Get it on GitHub and watch how much better it becomes.
Also sorting out the versioning would make it more usable.
What are the alternatives? Is there any other free, self-hosted, open source CMS that out-of-the-box allows an average non-tech person to publish content, images, etc. with such ease and nicely designed admin GUI? Easy to install, can be installed on any cheap shared hosting and will work fine, has automatic updates, content is searchable, has tones of themes free or cheap to choose from, it's fairly easy to customiz…
I have never seen a better alternative for what I do.
With Varnish in front of it, the server doesn't break a sweat with 1,000 concurrent connections (according to Analytics)
I'd love WordPress to be on GitHub rather than squirreled away on... Actually I have no idea, I've never actually found it. I bet you can't find it within 2 minutes from reading this, go on, give it a go... Told you. Get it on GitHub and watch how much better it becomes. Also sorting out the versioning would make it more usable.
This took me the time it took to type in the URL as a guess. "wordpress github", "wordpress source" both have this as the first result.