WordPress Is in Trouble

#1

Post by ulrischa » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 6:55 PM UTC

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#2

Post by gjsman-1000 » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 7:58 PM UTC

Let’s just rewrite the thing in Laravel, hook all the functions using RunKit7 (or a fork) to implement a plugin compatibility layer, and send the old codebase to the dumpster fire. WP Engine and other hosting agencies, it could be a matter of survival for you.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#3

Post by bdcravens » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #2

Let’s just rewrite the thing in Laravel, hook all the functions using RunKit7 (or a fork) to implement a plugin compatibility layer, and send the old codebase to the dumpster fire. WP Engine and other hosting agencies, it could be a matter of survival for you.

It's looking more and more like it's a matter of survival for the massive number of sites that run Wordpress but don't host with Wordpress.com.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#4

Post by ge96 » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

Isn't there a metric like 80% of the web is WP. Wonder who will be the new provider if WP does fold/problems affect running sites.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#5

Post by pryelluw » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:01 PM UTC

At this point, I’m planning to move away from Wordpress due to the instability and into a regular wiki based site. Unsure of which at the moment, maybe some suggestions? Prefer static file based rather than host a DB.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#6

Post by andrewstuart2 » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:02 PM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #4

Isn't there a metric like 80% of the web is WP. Wonder who will be the new provider if WP does fold/problems affect running sites.

I thought that was a statistic about PHP. Though WordPress is almost certainly a significant chunk of that.

Some quick searching seems to indicate that the web is about 79% PHP, and that ~44% of websites are using WordPress.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#7

Post by SV_BubbleTime » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:02 PM UTC

> Mullenweg framed the account deactivations as giving people the push they need to get started [in forking WP]

Ha. IDK buddy, be careful what you wish for.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#8

Post by nabaraz » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:03 PM UTC

pryelluw wrote: post #5

At this point, I’m planning to move away from Wordpress due to the instability and into a regular wiki based site. Unsure of which at the moment, maybe some suggestions? Prefer static file based rather than host a DB.

I moved to Azure free static hosting. Push a commit and automatically triggers a deployment via Github Actions.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/use-cases-and-examples/de...

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#9

Post by fullstop » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:03 PM UTC

pryelluw wrote: post #5

At this point, I’m planning to move away from Wordpress due to the instability and into a regular wiki based site. Unsure of which at the moment, maybe some suggestions? Prefer static file based rather than host a DB.

https://ghost.org/ perhaps?

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#10

Post by SV_BubbleTime » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:03 PM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #4

Isn't there a metric like 80% of the web is WP. Wonder who will be the new provider if WP does fold/problems affect running sites.

Hopefully… geocities.