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Wordpress was never really the competition for you if those are your needs. Here's what wordpress does that most CMS's either don't do well, or cost money to do
by debaserab2 8y ago
Wordpress was never really the competition for you if those are your needs. Here's what wordpress does that most CMS's either don't do well, or cost money to do:
- Have a user friendly administration section that anyone can use regardless of technical expertise (by user friendly, I mean have WYSIWYG editor for all posts and make it extremely simple to manage content via a UI -- not CLI)
- Have roles for users with restrictable access
- Have a plugin ecosystem that allow just about any customization to be easy enough to implement that paying a freelancer to do so is quite affordable
- Have an entire theming eco-system that is very alive, with plenty of free or paid options to make a site look professional
- mcny 8y agoI've been playing with Drupal for a bit and another thing WordPress does better is that you can update WordPress from inside WordPress dashboard, no need to understand anything. I doubt we will ever see backend changes, like allowing postgresql database though.
- WimLeers 8y agoSelf-updating means that WordPress needs to be allowed to write to more places than just the "uploads" directory. Which is frightening, and a security risk.
- smacktoward 8y agoYes, but non-self-updating means tons and tons of sites run by lazy people end up sitting out there on ancient, known-compromised versions of WordPress forever, which is also a security risk (and arguably a bigger one).
- indigochill 8y agoJekyll does have the last two as well: Plugins: https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-plugins https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-plugins Themes: http://jekyllthemes.org/ http://jekyllthemes.org/ But I do see your point.