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What's the argument against wordpress? I'm trying to figure out where to have my first dev blog hosted with minimum hassle, wordpress seemed like a popular opti

• deleted 15y ago
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• masnick 15y ago
  Wordpress is a pain, relative to a platform like Tumblr or a static blog like Jekyll. I wrote a long post about this recently: http://www.maxmasnick.com/guides/bulletproof_your_blog http://www.maxmasnick.com/guides/bulletproof_your_blog
• bad_user 15y ago
  Hi, I'm the author of this post. Wordpress is great for starting out and in general the smart choice as you'll find tons of already-made plugins and themes. However, I like control and I find Wordpress to be a hassle when I want to customize or optimize the setup. But if you don't want to spend too much effort and simply don't care about customizing it, there's no better alternative than Wordpress. But make sure to continually upgrade it to the latest version as Wordpress is the most targeted piece of software by crackers/spammers on the Internet. And if you don't, one day you'll notice Viagra-related ads or pornographic content on all of our pages. This is what I meant by static content being a lot more secure, although fortunately Wordpress is easy to upgrade these days.
• danso 15y ago
  I've used Wordpress for about 3 years. I really, really dislike PHP, and so I don't muck about in the internals...in fact, I find it easier just to totally toss away whatever styles/plugins I have setup rather than dig into the internals. But the kicker is is that everything still works fine. WP, from 2 to 3.x over the last two years hasn't caused me any real issues even though I maintain it in the worst way.