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Frankly my reasons for using it boil down to: 1. WordPress uses it 2. PHP is far less terrible than I remember (having used it in very early days) I manage a
by lordgroff 5y ago
Frankly my reasons for using it boil down to:
1. WordPress uses it
2. PHP is far less terrible than I remember (having used it in very early days)
I manage a WP (woocommerce) site for a small business. It's not my day job, it needs to be simple. Most of the "day job" is handled by content management users. I have written a fair amount of plugins though to enable custom functionality and the process is perfectly fine.
I looked at Ruby, I looked at Python, I looked at node. There's nothing as simple and, frankly, as mature aside from commercial platforms like Shopify that charge an arm and leg.
- fooyc 5y agoI would not recommend anyone to use WordPress in 2021, though. WordPress maybe simple to setup, it's part of what gave PHP its bad reputation.
- lordgroff 5y agoYeah, I hear that a lot, and to me it always seems like a person curling their lip in disapproval from the nearby Ivory Tower. I honestly always wonder: as opposed to what? Let's take my simple requirement, a small business ecommerce store that's not going to look like trash and where non technical users can make pages, edit descriptions, etc. I can do: WordPress, Magento, or I can pay a SaS provider. Essentially both do it yourself approaches are PHP and Magento has really sabotaged itself with the complicated migration. SaS means higher costs and if I want custom functionality (and yes, the business needs it), it ranges from impossible to possible but a headache. So here is a business that is now online for a minimal cost for two years, allowing great flexibility for me, while allowing completely non technical users to get crap done.