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For developers, there are many alternatives, but for the vast majority of use cases, there really aren’t any. WordPress is popular because it’s a dead simple w
by keiferski 2y ago
For developers, there are many alternatives, but for the vast majority of use cases, there really aren’t any.
WordPress is popular because it’s a dead simple way to make a website that doesn’t require any technical skills - and has been this dead simple solution for almost the last two decades. Most of the popular hosts come with WP installed, so there is no need to install software on a server (a fairly “technical” thing to do.)
Realistically the only alternative for these users is another website builder like Wix, Squarespace, or Shopify. The hosted version of Ghost is pretty good too and probably the single closest thing to WordPress.
- qingcharles 2y agoPlus the large plugin library.
- bigiain 2y agoFor us, it's the huge existing user base of people who know how to do authoring/publishing in WordPress. (Even if they don't have the skills to understand what they're doing installing plugins sensibly, we mostly don't hand over Admin role accounts ion we don't have to.) I don't want to hand hold a small business owner through writing markdown or how to commit to git to get their homepage edited. I want to be able to tell them "Just ask around your staff or family or friends, someone will know how to update your wordpress site, or one of them will at least know somebody who can. Failing that, go to your local craft/hipster coffee place and ask anyone with a laptop open for suggestions."
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