Yes, from a content editor perspective, Wordpress is a great choice. Quite a few clients even want their new site based on Wordpress rather than on more heavy w

Yes, from a content editor perspective, Wordpress is a great choice. Quite a few clients even want their new site based on Wordpress rather than on more heavy weights like Typo3 or Drupal. Wordpress has made many editors more self confident and yes, also interested in what a CMS can do for you (instead of: you needing hours of training to do basic edits). However, this has some consequences: Clients expect that there is a free or cheap plugin that will solve every single problem. And they often install dozens of them to try to solve it themselves. Maintaining a client site after it has been online for more than a few months is often very painful for a developer: plugins bring style overrides, sometimes break your routing, often miss translation. Also, a professional Wordpress instance is far from free: you need ACF Pro for good custom fields, Admin Columns Pro to get a useable backend, Relevanssi Pro for proper search, WP Migrate Pro for migration. And you quickly end up with 500$ for a basic setup. And recurring fees. Yes, there are free alternative, but they are not always reliable (I so often had issues with Wordmove migrations...) As nice as Wordpress is for the editor, it is no fun for the developer and designer: you can get separation of concerns (and Twig templating) with Timber but its nowhere near supporting all functions (password protection does not work, for example). Also, no underlying framework makes creating and working with plugins guesswork. PHP is a good choice for CMS, but Craft (Yii) or the excellent open source Bolt CMS (Symfony, Twig) bring joy to all involved - editors, designers, coders.