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WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by jonnycomputer »

exodust wrote: post #104
peckrob wrote: post #62

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Not a bad question at all. It's all about what the client needs. The advice I give on this subject these days is that Wordpress is fine to use for a blog or a very basic, low traffic read-only company websites. Think like a small restaurant or something. The two things to be aware of: 1. Somebody has to support it, whether that be you or someone who comes after you. While Wordpress doesn't have as many security issue…

> (like adding online ordering, inventory management, etc.) you are better off finding other, better suited options. What better suited options? And why are they better for someone's small business or intention to sell a few products? To be fair, the "online ordering" part is handled by services such as Paypal and Stripe. Wordpress is not doing the heavy lifting. Inventory is just a bunch of products sitting in the d…

I've found that the WooCommerce plugin does most of what I needed of it without too much hassle, for a low-volume business.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by hrbf »

albatrosstrophy wrote: post #91
dpcan wrote: post #12

We can make assumptions all day but for me, the worst thing about WordPress is EASILY Plugin Hell. I can update all plugins this morning and they all want updates by the end of the day. And then when they break it’s a disaster. WordPress itself needs to take a chill pill too. Leave a version out for a year or more, and only small security patches. In the last year, I think we’ve seen block widgets, JQuery migrate nig…

I host a hobby website and use WordPress for everything. Even as an entry level user, I agree the amount of plugins are ridiculous. But it's free and I only pay for hosting. Anyone knows what are the alternatives for someone like me?

Recently, I’ve come to appreciate Kirby (https://getkirby.com/). It’s commercial but reasonably priced. Clean, powerful and relaxed with updates.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by ufmace »

Maybe I've gotten something wrong here, but as far as I can tell, Wix and Squarespace are entirely closed-source hosted solutions. This might be a small and hard to verify decline, but it still makes me kind of sad to see more things moving from something you at least can host yourself if you want to something entirely proprietary. Wordpress may have its warts, but you can still actually get the code, and it still works mostly okay and can easily be hosted yourself in a wide variety of ways. If you want to hack it to do something weird or crazy, you actually can. IMO that beats locking everything into some company's system that you may not be able to extract or change.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by TheRealNGenius »

goldcd wrote: post #23

I think the "private website" space is shrinking - despite what adverts for Wix and Squarespace might infer. The consumer/blog space of geocities, tripod and the like went to social media. Then we went through a period of "businesses putting up 10 pages for a fixed price" through first of all "a local web guy" then by themselves using Wix/WP/SS etc. I've just had a bathroom fitted by a guy who functions purely on Ins…

*imply. Not infer. Inferring is what I do after they imply.

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by aaaaaaaaata »

macintux wrote: post #105
mbesto wrote: post #101

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> I've just had a bathroom fitted by a guy who functions purely on Instagram for his portfolio and Whatsapp for communication. As I'm old and curmudgeonly I wanted an email address, and when I got it, it's the one that came free with his phone. And work in anything international and this is essentially it. Want to find a smoothie shop in a beach town in Mexico? Instagram/FB + WhatsApp...thats it.

Speaking as an abstainer from all things Meta, that's depressing.

Burner?

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by aaaaaaaaata »

naravara wrote: post #110
Gigachad wrote: post #92

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The problem with Wordpress isn't the ease of use, its the constant maintenance required. If you are a local restaurant, you don't need an extremely powerful and flexible framework. You need something that is always online, doesn't get hacked, doesn't have its certificates expire, doesn't run out of disk space because of a log file, doesn't get stuck on a 5 year old debian, etc. If you have to pay a little more to hav…

Doesn’t Wordpress own Tumblr which ticks all the boxes you just described?

tumblr has multi-user access?

Re: WordPress’ market share is shrinking

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Post by aaaaaaaaata »

rubyist5eva wrote: post #71
siquick wrote: post #9

The only people I know who hate Wordpress are the developers who have had the misfortune of having to manage an instance of Wordpress. All the marketing and content people I have worked with love it.

I have a good friend who basically makes his living off of wordpress development and consulting. He hates WP but makes a solid living.

Can you get him to comment on what he charges, even if it's a range?

Also: Is he taking new contracts? =]

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