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Agreed. I've been doing freelance design/dev for small businesses for 15+ years and at first I would always choose the best current CMS available. Wordpress was
by 3D30497420 2y ago
Agreed. I've been doing freelance design/dev for small businesses for 15+ years and at first I would always choose the best current CMS available. Wordpress was always an option, but it was clunky and had a mixed reputation. Well, all those CMSs are gone and I had to migrate several sites. Wordpress offers one of the most important things to these small businesses: (relative) consistency and dependability.
I can very much see the benefit of decoupling the front and back ends for these cases, especially since in most cases nowadays the public facing pages are pre-rendered/cached anyway. Also, I love Laravel.
- samuell 2y agoJust wanting to chime in that ProcessWire [1] has provided this dependency for me over the last 10 years, even in a better way than WordPress can provide, since it is such a small core that rarely needs updating, and that most if not all functionality can be developed through a few lines it's amazing PHP API rather than tons of 3rd party plugins that need constant updating. 10+ year site still running without me touching it. One customer even was able to find a (non-expert) developer to develop it further, since it is all pure PHP anyways. As a former Drupal webdev, ProcessWire is heaven. https://processwire.com/ https://processwire.com/
- chiefalchemist 2y ago> Wordpress offers one of the most important things to these small businesses: (relative) consistency and dependability. Kudos. Maintainability. It matters. I wish more devs realized that their DIY solutions are a disservice to the client once they leave the project. WP has it (many) faults. But in general a good new dev can - with some effort - pick up where the ex-dev left off. Clients should not loose sleep tracking down support for some esoteric megalomaniac-developer solution.