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I think there are still plenty of plain old blogs out there using wordpress. It's a great CMS but lousy at being a lightweight blogging platform.
by 500and4 13y ago
I think there are still plenty of plain old blogs out there using wordpress. It's a great CMS but lousy at being a lightweight blogging platform.
- davidgerard 13y agoIt's not the greatest. And running it locally is fraught, because of Security Hole of the Week. For almost everyone running WordPress, the right answer is wordpress.com. If you really need a custom theme, you might need to host somewhere else or self-host. (I self-host my own WP blogs, but that's because I'm a control addict.)
- rmccue 13y ago> And running it locally is fraught, because of Security Hole of the Week. We had 4 security releases in 2013: http://wordpress.org/news/category/security/ http://wordpress.org/news/category/security/ Not quite Hole of the Week, but admittedly not the best record. When you have a codebase this big, it's not that surprising though.
- davidgerard 13y agoSorry, I don't mean to impugn your efforts :-) WordPress is a wonderful thing and I'm a big fan. As PHP goes, WordPress is as good as it gets. But as a sysadmin, I've found it a goddamn PITA keeping up with stuff in a professional "oh no we must run everything through staging and testing" environment. So we fobbed it off to a hosting company. If we didn't require custom themes, we'd have just put the blogs on wordpress.com on a commercial basis.
- johnward 13y agoIt's not lousy at being a blogging platform. It's feature heavy but you just ignore the features and blog.