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I use wordpress + woocommerce(amazon pay) I dont think this entire setup costs 200 dollars.

• Rjevski 8y ago
  Would not recommend anything Wordpress-based. That thing is a security and maintenance nightmare.
  • richjdsmith 8y ago
    I'm currently the maintainer of a Woocommerce site. My client paid for a massive rewrite of the thing and despite me damn-near getting on my knees begging him to use Shopify, he stuck with WooCommerce. It is truly terrible. I cannot recommend enough to anyone to keep as far away from it as possible.
  • mkirklions 8y ago
    Can you cite anything?
    • Rjevski 8y ago
      Ex PHP developer here. The codebase is an absolute nightmare and doesn’t conform to any best practices (it’s not even MVC but a weird mess of .php files, there is no HTTP routing, it’s all very legacy PHP).
      • mkirklions 8y ago
        OKay, but why does this matter for security and maintenance? I just developed a blog using laravel, and while I see the difference in complexity, I dont see how security/maintenance is affected.
        • Rjevski 8y ago
          There is a consistent history of huge vulnerabilities in Wordpress, which is explained by the aforementioned code quality. For maintenance, well if something breaks (especially plugins, etc), it’s much easier to fix it when the code is clean (like a proper Laravel-based project) than the mess that WP is. Finally performance isn’t that good again compared to a bespoke Laravel app or a more modern platform (for blogging, Ghost comes to mind).