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It'd be interested to know what percentage of WordPress sites are 'content-only' static sites. i.e. users are not logging and/or getting personalized content.

It'd be interested to know what percentage of WordPress sites are 'content-only' static sites. i.e. users are not logging and/or getting personalized content. WordPress seems overkill for that niche, and this may be an opportunity to build and sell tools that allow easy publishing for static sites, given the July 2018 update.

com2kid 9y ago
Lots of those solutions already exist, and I looked into them. Getting a full WordPress site up and running meant signing up for hosting, clicking a "enable WordPress button", agreeing to the (selected by default) auto-update WordPress check-box, and then going into the WYSIWYG editor. A few hours later I had a site up and running that looks equally good on Desktop and Mobile. The # of tools I had to learn was approx 0. The number of hosting options I had to choose from was enormous, pretty much everyone offers WordPress hosting, or one click WordPress installs. WordPress has the advantage of having an incredibly low barrier to entry. Of course, once it gets complex, it can get really complex.
- dhruvkar 9y ago
  fair enough. however, that's exactly my point. a publishing tool that allows you to publish, without learning any tools, like wordpress except faster, since google is going to start penalizing slow sites July 2018.
  - com2kid 9y ago
    I saw a few of those around, the price varies a lot. The ones targeted at making a landing pages with a signup form wanted a good deal of money per month (I don't recall exact numbers, well over $30 a month, I think one of them wanted $200 up front to get started). They typically include hosting as well, which sorta makes sense as soon as you add the least bit of interactive elements (e.g. form submissions), they want to make it super simple to get up and running.
user5994461 9y ago
Wordpress has comments and statistics, so there is no blog that is strictly static.
- dhruvkar 9y ago
  there are still options to handle comments (disqus, facebook comments etc.) that don't need a database on your server. there's solutions for pretty much every dynamic aspect of a blog. If wordpress is slow, and google is going to penalize your search ranking, it's worth looking into.
  - CM30 9y ago
    And by using said other options, you give control of your users to a walled garden service. Do we really want more of the internet centralised around Facebook and its ilk?
    - KajMagnus 9y ago
      Maybe then Talkyard (https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments) is interesting to you: It's hosted & serverless, like Facebook and Disqus. But at the same time, it's open source, so you will be able to export your comments from Talkyard's servers, install Talkyard yourself and import the comments. (But I haven't yet built export and import functionality :- P )
- bigiain 9y ago
  Without going and counting, I'd guess well over 90% of the WordPress sites I've helped set up have had comments switched off - they're purely using WordPress as a CMS, not as a "blog".

com2kid 9y ago

Lots of those solutions already exist, and I looked into them. Getting a full WordPress site up and running meant signing up for hosting, clicking a "enable WordPress button", agreeing to the (selected by default) auto-update WordPress check-box, and then going into the WYSIWYG editor. A few hours later I had a site up and running that looks equally good on Desktop and Mobile. The # of tools I had to learn was approx 0. The number of hosting options I had to choose from was enormous, pretty much everyone offers WordPress hosting, or one click WordPress installs. WordPress has the advantage of having an incredibly low barrier to entry. Of course, once it gets complex, it can get really complex.

dhruvkar 9y ago
fair enough. however, that's exactly my point. a publishing tool that allows you to publish, without learning any tools, like wordpress except faster, since google is going to start penalizing slow sites July 2018.
- com2kid 9y ago
  I saw a few of those around, the price varies a lot. The ones targeted at making a landing pages with a signup form wanted a good deal of money per month (I don't recall exact numbers, well over $30 a month, I think one of them wanted $200 up front to get started). They typically include hosting as well, which sorta makes sense as soon as you add the least bit of interactive elements (e.g. form submissions), they want to make it super simple to get up and running.

user5994461 9y ago

Wordpress has comments and statistics, so there is no blog that is strictly static.

dhruvkar 9y ago
there are still options to handle comments (disqus, facebook comments etc.) that don't need a database on your server. there's solutions for pretty much every dynamic aspect of a blog. If wordpress is slow, and google is going to penalize your search ranking, it's worth looking into.
- CM30 9y ago
  And by using said other options, you give control of your users to a walled garden service. Do we really want more of the internet centralised around Facebook and its ilk?
  - KajMagnus 9y ago
    Maybe then Talkyard (https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments) is interesting to you: It's hosted & serverless, like Facebook and Disqus. But at the same time, it's open source, so you will be able to export your comments from Talkyard's servers, install Talkyard yourself and import the comments. (But I haven't yet built export and import functionality :- P )
bigiain 9y ago
Without going and counting, I'd guess well over 90% of the WordPress sites I've helped set up have had comments switched off - they're purely using WordPress as a CMS, not as a "blog".