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Sending emails, setting proper meta tags, creating forms, not having security vulnerabilities, undoing broken upgrades, caching, … are all features that a fully
by creshal 3y ago
Sending emails, setting proper meta tags, creating forms, not having security vulnerabilities, undoing broken upgrades, caching, … are all features that a fully-featured, bloated CMS like Wordpress really shouldn't need plugins for.
It'd make sense if WP had a "small core, versatile APIs" philosophy, but that flew out of the window over a decades ago; it's extremely bloated these days and has tons of features, yet the basics are still missing.
- coldtea 3y ago>Sending emails, setting proper meta tags, creating forms, not having security vulnerabilities, undoing broken upgrades, caching, … are all features that a fully-featured, bloated CMS like Wordpress really shouldn't need plugins for. You could say the same thing about Emacs. Wordpress provides the infrastructure. It doesn't have to provide everything and the kitchen sink.
- creshal 3y agoPlease read the second paragraph, too. Wordpress hasn't been about providing "infrastructure" (what does that even mean, when essentials are missing?) for a decade at least.
- coldtea 3y agoIt means "building blocks" to build different kinds of websites: blogs, brochure sites, personal website, business site, magazine style, portal style, and so on. You can then add plugins for the missing functionality. Also, what essentials" are missing? I've deployed it with 0 third party plugins (at most I've add Jetpack) several times, with no issues. So? Or do you mean "your essentials" which could be different than mine? I could not give a rat arse about BS "SEO" plugins for example, basically selling snakeoil to suckers, as if anybody ever got even a nudge above in Google rankings because of those...