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I actually have a hard time imagining why I'd use Wordpress anymore. If I want a blog, I'll probably use Ghost. If I want a CMS, I find django-CMS to be pretty awesome (I'm biased because I had to learn Django for a job, though). Wordpress seems like a PITA to work with, though to its credit it has an enormous ecosystem around it.
I actually have a hard time imagining why I'd use Wordpress anymore. If I want a blog, I'll probably use Ghost. If I want a CMS, I find django-CMS to be pretty awesome (I'm biased because I had to learn Django for a job, though). Wordpress seems like a PITA to work with, though to its credit it has an enormous ecosystem around it.
Sheesh if you're going to downvote me you could at least say why.
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Sheesh if you're going to downvote me you could at least say why.
I didn't down-vote you but I would venture that it's this comment "Wordpress seems like a PITA to work with" Sounds like you don't have any actual experience with WordPress which means it's probably not fair for you to say it's a "pain in the ass" when you're favoring the platform you use simply because it's the one familiar to you. Also it doesn't seem as though you have exp with Ghost either. HNers are a harsh audi…
Wordpress seems _to me_ like a PITA to work with. I spent some time working on Wordpress a couple of years ago when I was doing work for a company that purchased a Wordpress-driven site. For other people it may well be a wonderful tool.
For some inexplicable reason, the actual download link is hidden on the page: https://ghost.org/download/ or their GitHub: https://github.com/tryghost/ghost/ Looks pretty! As an aside, about Wordpress, there are a couple of important points: 1) The famous install - it's extremely simple, anyone can do it if they have MySQL set up. Even easier if your hoster has CPanel. Ghost requires either hosting on their systems o…
Contrariwise my host supports installing Wordpress with a single click. The End.
This post is just more tech hipsterism. I say this as someone who does indulge in PHP bashing from time to time, and who would like to switch from Wordpress.
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I think there are still plenty of plain old blogs out there using wordpress. It's a great CMS but lousy at being a lightweight blogging platform.
It's not the greatest. And running it locally is fraught, because of Security Hole of the Week. For almost everyone running WordPress, the right answer is wordpress.com. If you really need a custom theme, you might need to host somewhere else or self-host. (I self-host my own WP blogs, but that's because I'm a control addict.)
We had 4 security releases in 2013: http://wordpress.org/news/category/security/
Not quite Hole of the Week, but admittedly not the best record. When you have a codebase this big, it's not that surprising though.
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It's not the greatest. And running it locally is fraught, because of Security Hole of the Week. For almost everyone running WordPress, the right answer is wordpress.com. If you really need a custom theme, you might need to host somewhere else or self-host. (I self-host my own WP blogs, but that's because I'm a control addict.)
> And running it locally is fraught, because of Security Hole of the Week. We had 4 security releases in 2013: http://wordpress.org/news/category/security/ Not quite Hole of the Week, but admittedly not the best record. When you have a codebase this big, it's not that surprising though.