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I will be honest, I didn’t think Wordpress would last this long. However, there are some great (free) alternatives to getting a website up and running. Google S

I will be honest, I didn’t think Wordpress would last this long. However, there are some great (free) alternatives to getting a website up and running. Google Sites is one not mentioned in the article. It can handle basic needs for most people without technical skills. Speed is not the greatest however. With something like Tailwind CSS it’s very easy to create a static webpage to host on Github/Netlify.

k__ 6y ago
"I didn’t think Wordpress would last this long" Same here. Funny thing is, just a week ago I read that some people would say WP is "no code". I had the impression almost all of WP's success was based on countless web agencies coding customizations for it.
- elorant 6y ago
  It's because there are countless plugins and whatnot that WP to a lot of people is a hassle free installation, similar to "no code", or at least very little code.
- dageshi 6y ago
  Page builders have come a long way, a lot of agencies will use something like Elementor now because designers can effectively build a lot of pages in real time as opposed to doing the traditional psd->custom theme route.
tbran 6y ago
I like Tailwind a lot, but for anyone else reading, you still need to purge css classes to not end up with a very large css file (187kB gzipped) [1]. This requires a build step with PurgeCSS. (I haven't checked, but maybe Netlify offers a build step that will do this for you...) I also like Tachyons [2] for utility-based classes, which is pretty small (14kB gzipped). [1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/controlling-file-size https://tailwindcss.com/docs/controlling-file-size [2]: http://tachyons.io/ http://tachyons.io/
arkitaip 6y ago
Wordpress will probably outlast most of the alternatives mentioned in this thread, including every static site generator. It's too cheap, powerful, flexible and easy to use to disappear. Also, the Wordpress devs do actually make radical new changes to it to keep up with the times, like introducing the visual eidtor Gutenberg or moving towards a headless Wordpress.
- menybuvico 6y ago
  Yep. It's too big to fail - even if Automattic goes belly-up the community would keep WordPress afloat for years.

k__ 6y ago

"I didn’t think Wordpress would last this long" Same here. Funny thing is, just a week ago I read that some people would say WP is "no code". I had the impression almost all of WP's success was based on countless web agencies coding customizations for it.

elorant 6y ago
It's because there are countless plugins and whatnot that WP to a lot of people is a hassle free installation, similar to "no code", or at least very little code.
dageshi 6y ago
Page builders have come a long way, a lot of agencies will use something like Elementor now because designers can effectively build a lot of pages in real time as opposed to doing the traditional psd->custom theme route.

tbran 6y ago

I like Tailwind a lot, but for anyone else reading, you still need to purge css classes to not end up with a very large css file (187kB gzipped) [1]. This requires a build step with PurgeCSS. (I haven't checked, but maybe Netlify offers a build step that will do this for you...) I also like Tachyons [2] for utility-based classes, which is pretty small (14kB gzipped). [1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/controlling-file-size https://tailwindcss.com/docs/controlling-file-size [2]: http://tachyons.io/ http://tachyons.io/

arkitaip 6y ago

Wordpress will probably outlast most of the alternatives mentioned in this thread, including every static site generator. It's too cheap, powerful, flexible and easy to use to disappear. Also, the Wordpress devs do actually make radical new changes to it to keep up with the times, like introducing the visual eidtor Gutenberg or moving towards a headless Wordpress.

menybuvico 6y ago
Yep. It's too big to fail - even if Automattic goes belly-up the community would keep WordPress afloat for years.