WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults • Hacker News Board

Neil44 wrote: post #13

A lot of this seems to be change for change’s sake. Creating something non standard for anyone used to working with wordpress for no big benefit. The main benefit of wordpress is the compatibility and the number of people who know it inside out. To be honest it smells like a project by a bored agency wordpress dev who would rather eat their own head than code another custom theme so spent a few weeks throwing this up…

This is exactly my thoughts when I came to my current agency and they used bedrock. It was way more complexity and hassle than help.

Re: WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults

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Post by jrm4 » Wed, Mar 08, 2023, 4:55 PM UTC

montroser wrote: post #39

WordPress is plain crazy. Marketing people insisted on WordPress so we reluctantly put it off in its own isolated network and expected bad things to happen. And, they did... - WordPress consultant hired by marketing people while "editing the theme" introduced an infinite loop which caused OOM killer. That's when we learned you can point-click your way to editing actual php code in the admin web interface! Complete an…

Web development is plain crazy and WordPress adapted itself to that?