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>I hope a static site generator comes along with an intuitive UI for non-technical people to easily update their own content. Those people are already served w
by aphextron 9y ago
>I hope a static site generator comes along with an intuitive UI for non-technical people to easily update their own content.
Those people are already served well by things like Wix and Squarespace. WordPress is essentially a point and click application development tool at this point, with integrations for anything imaginable. Yes it is insanely insecure, slow, poorly designed, and bloated. But the depth of offerings from the plugin marketplace will keep WP relevant for a long time to come with people who can't afford custom development.
- oldcynic 9y agoWix seems to generate the slowest loading sites on the internet. Especially loading images long after page load is done. WordPress is positively supersonic by comparison.
- Whitestrake 9y agoDoes Wix optimize its images between upload and delivery? I'd be inclined to believe that this is a side effect of Wix's target market not being aware of how to optimally compress their images for web delivery.
- david-cako 9y agoI don’t think that’s the user’s responsibility if its designed for non technical people.
- Donzo 9y agoWhat is insecure about WordPress? If you minimize your reliance on plugins, enable automatic updates, and harden your installation, it's pretty secure. At least I haven't had issues. Anything can be insecure if it's misconfigured, not just WordPress.
- ayrx 9y agoWordPress has a history of almost embarrassing security vulnerabilities. To be fair, most PHP applications of that era have similar track records. The newer versions have been _much_ better.
- Slansitartop 9y ago> What is insecure about WordPress? > If you minimize your reliance on plugins, enable automatic updates, and harden your installation, it's pretty secure. At least I haven't had issues. My guess is that it was long too easy to not do any of those things, so it gained a reputation for being insecure. They might have mitigated a lot of the problems, but bad reputations die hard.
- baby 9y agoYou don’t even need all that if you just use a wordpress over at wordpress.com That’s what I suggest all my friends who want to create a blog to do.