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I started a thread here a couple of weeks ago, "Ask HN: What's a Good Alternative to WordPress" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731867 https://news.ycomb

I started a thread here a couple of weeks ago, "Ask HN: What's a Good Alternative to WordPress" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731867 I feel like it's time to move off Wordpress. I don't feel comfortable about its future for my clients. What suggestions do you all have for alternatives?

kyleee 2y ago
Did anyone, especially here on HN, recommend going with Wordpress in the first place?
- bigiain 2y ago
  yeah. Me, for one. WordPress is kinda awful in a lot of ways. BUT You can hand a thoughtfully build WP site over to a non technical client, and they can work out or learn how to do 90% of the publishing and updating they need to do, or easily find staff or contractors with lots of WordPress experience to do it for them. The "43% of the entire web" statistic is a really really good reason to recommend WP for that reason. There is obviously not a single competing CMS/blog-platform that has anything like as many experiences users. Where by "users" I mean people who are familiar with or even experts on publishing content using it. That's the real "WordPress Community", the people using it on a day to day basis to get their jobs/hobbies/responsibilities done. That's the "WordPress Community" that makes it "the right thing" for agencies and contractors and IT departments to recommend WordPress. Up until 2 weeks ago, I regularly recommended WordPress. In spite of it's flaws.
  - qingcharles 2y ago
    Agree. I hate Wordpress, but I still recommend it and run a bunch of sites on it. It's very easy to get up and running. It's has two decades of support. A ton of plugins, and people will moan about Gutenberg, but it's actually a good thing, IMO. I'm running dozens of WP sites on a single $3/mo Hetzner box without trouble.

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I started a thread here a couple of weeks ago, "Ask HN: What's a Good Alternative to WordPress" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731867 https://news.ycomb

by andrewmcwatters 2y ago

kyleee 2y ago
Did anyone, especially here on HN, recommend going with Wordpress in the first place?
- bigiain 2y ago
  yeah. Me, for one. WordPress is kinda awful in a lot of ways. BUT You can hand a thoughtfully build WP site over to a non technical client, and they can work out or learn how to do 90% of the publishing and updating they need to do, or easily find staff or contractors with lots of WordPress experience to do it for them. The "43% of the entire web" statistic is a really really good reason to recommend WP for that reason. There is obviously not a single competing CMS/blog-platform that has anything like as many experiences users. Where by "users" I mean people who are familiar with or even experts on publishing content using it. That's the real "WordPress Community", the people using it on a day to day basis to get their jobs/hobbies/responsibilities done. That's the "WordPress Community" that makes it "the right thing" for agencies and contractors and IT departments to recommend WordPress. Up until 2 weeks ago, I regularly recommended WordPress. In spite of it's flaws.
  - qingcharles 2y ago
    Agree. I hate Wordpress, but I still recommend it and run a bunch of sites on it. It's very easy to get up and running. It's has two decades of support. A ton of plugins, and people will moan about Gutenberg, but it's actually a good thing, IMO. I'm running dozens of WP sites on a single $3/mo Hetzner box without trouble.