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Some good answers here. Interestingly (for me), I've started going back to building more or less static sites for clients. I used Wordpress for a long time, bu
by iamben 10y ago
Some good answers here.
Interestingly (for me), I've started going back to building more or less static sites for clients. I used Wordpress for a long time, but have increasingly found none of them want to blog, and few of them update either the site (or Wordpress, which can end up a security nightmare).
Often when it came to updating pages, they would call or email and say "can you do XXX", to which I'd reply "I can, but so can you". 90% of the time they're more than happy to pay me to update a page in Wordpress, which I could have done just as easily / quickly in a static site.
Long and short, the overhead of building a custom theme and setting up Wordpress isn't worth it for most clients, and even less me in a cost/time for the money way.
- mmsimanga 10y agoI am going through a similar transition. Moving my ten odd Drupal sites I built for family and friends to Hugo. In other cases just plain HTML using WinHttrack to download HTML version of site as is. I will convert to Hugo if need arises. Only one user from the 10 ever used the CMS functionality to modify her site. She did it the one year, totally forgot her password and the following year asked me to make the changes. Maintenance of a CMS is even more of a struggle if that isn't your core job. If I worked on Drupal for my day job I wouldn't leaving the sites on Drupal.