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Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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

Mullenweg is in trouble, WordPress is gonna be fine.

https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by egypturnash » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:04 PM UTC

matt please get your brain worms dealt with, thank you

- someone who has been happily using wordpress for her site since about 2000

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#13

Post by paxys » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:04 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.

Nah, Wordpress themselves claimed 40% in 2021 (https://wordpress.org/40-percent-of-web/).

The big caveat of course is that wordpress being installed on a domain does not mean that entire domain is powered by wordpress. I'd bet for most of them it's just the landing/marketing pages and/or a blog section.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#14

Post by gorkish » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:05 PM UTC

Oh no who could have possibly forseen this .... mumble mumble

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

#15

Post by _fat_santa » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:05 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.

If you are hosting a blog then I highly recommend Astro.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by Kiala » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:06 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.

Statamic

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by karaterobot » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:07 PM UTC

I've had a Wordpress blog for about 25 years. This makes me want to turn off automatic updates, since I'm worried he might just go nuclear and flip some sort of kill switch that bricks every blog, or push some ridiculous anti-Wordpress Engine banner to every installation. Of course, not keeping WP up to date is very risky as well.

I'm not even insensitive to his position, even though I don't know full details. But, he's the one acting irrational in all this, so he's the one I'm most scared of.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by diggan » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:07 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.

Depends on your target user. If you want something really simple for developers, https://github.com/gollum/gollum is pretty neat (is what powers the Wiki system on GitHub), while if you want something simple for people who aren't developers, something like Mediawiki would fit better. Although Mediawiki requires a database, you can use SQLite (which is basically a file on disk as a DB) for it.

Dokuwiki is also a neat old-school alternative that basically treats files on disk as articles/pages, so no (other) DB needed.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by huijzer » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:09 PM UTC

Hopefully many sites will switch to a static site generator like Hugo or Zola. Way lower costs, lower risk of being hacked (almost impossible actually), and a reliable backup thanks to Git.

I’m running multiple static sites for years already and am very happy with it. It has been very reliable.

Re: WordPress Is in Trouble

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Post by ezekg » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:09 PM UTC

I'm still in the camp that Matt is attempting to force a fork because he's done with WP. Maybe he believes it can't live without his magic touch (lmao). Either that or he's lost his mind. :)