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...and replace it with what, exactly? I mean, I liked Drupal, still do, but the business for custom Drupal sites dried up and moved onto WordPress with (insert
by kmeisthax 2y ago
...and replace it with what, exactly?
I mean, I liked Drupal, still do, but the business for custom Drupal sites dried up and moved onto WordPress with (insert builder of choice here). Teaching anything on Drupal was like pulling teeth, even in the D7 and D8+ eras. And I'm not aware of any demand for Backdrop / Concrete5 / whatever sites. WordPress even ate up whatever demand there was for Magento (good riddance IMO).
Everyone moved to WordPress because it's easy to teach clients on, the dev costs are reasonable, and there's a really good plugin ecosystem to counter the platform's faults. You can absolutely build unique sites on WordPress and lock them down too.
If WordPress dies, everyone moves to SquareSpace (which is proprietary) or socials (in other words, doesn't have a web presence).
- chuckadams 2y agoI have some hopes for Drupal's Starshot Initiative. Tho it now bears the crushingly drab sobriquet of "Drupal CMS" :-P
- sleepybrett 2y agolol 10 years ago I worked with a shop that used expression engine for everything. It was certainly more flexible, more pleasant to write plugins for, and less of a security nightmare at the time. The community was significantly smaller, but many of the plugins that existed were very well maintained, there was a small but healthy set of developers with paid plugins. I don't want anything to do with that industry anymore, whenever I want to put up a little site I just use a static site generator (hugo). I think there is an interesting potential market for a wp admin like UI that could be used to create hugo posts/etc and manage the theming configuration. Then you click publish, it fires off a hugo container that generates the static site and updates the host... maybe such a thing exists.
- throwaway984393 2y ago[dead]