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I did a cup of coffee at an agency that built with WordPress this year. I hadn't been around the ecosystem in awhile, and I was really impressed at how some mod
by Brendinooo 5y ago
I did a cup of coffee at an agency that built with WordPress this year. I hadn't been around the ecosystem in awhile, and I was really impressed at how some modern frameworks (Themosis) and helpful plugins (Advanced Custom Fields) could give you a reasonable code base and the ability to do pretty much anything you want.
Its biggest drawback is that it's too easy for laymen to add whatever. Which is part of its strength, I suppose: anyone can do anything. But I saw how a clean staging environment could turn into a wacky, bogged down production environment just by adding a dozen plugins that do everything from site caching to hiding the title from a blog post.
Had I stayed around, I would have looked into keeping end users from adding plugins, and maybe being more restrictive about the bits that we didn't account for when developing our themes.