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Mostly-uninformed opinion in square brackets: [By the point I'm spending five digits figures on Wordpress add-ins, I might as well hire a crew to make me a new
by thanatropism 8y ago
Mostly-uninformed opinion in square brackets:
[By the point I'm spending five digits figures on Wordpress add-ins, I might as well hire a crew to make me a new product with React or Angular or ClojureDjango# -- whatever is en vogue right now and likely to remain so for a while.
Wordpress might have improved a lot since I last looked at it in 2008/9; but I recently made a free wordpress.com blog and it sure feels like a monocycle mounted on an elephant mounted on a Chevy carcass mounted on an electric scooter.]
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Am I wrong? A little wrong or out of whack entirely?
- fencepost 8y agoIt depends on what you're doing and how much of the site it is. An add-in might be an almost totally separate product already, just one that's leveraging the existing infrastructure of WP such as logins, permissions, theming, etc. If it's just leveraging those things (and thereby changing appropriately if you change appearances) then how important is it if it's written in PHP? I will say that if you're spending 10k+ on add-ins that you should probably make sure you've looked into what you're doing and how. That sounds like the kind of pricing I'd expect if you're having a custom add-in developed rather than what I'd expect for a commercially available one. Something custom may be appropriate, but unless your needs are unique it may not be the best approach.