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There are tons of WordPress site builders out there. WPMUDEV released one yesterday, calling it 'the future of WordPress'. Everyone is hell bent on turning WP
by nish1500 12y ago
There are tons of WordPress site builders out there. WPMUDEV released one yesterday, calling it 'the future of WordPress'.
Everyone is hell bent on turning WP from a CMS to an app platform. This is what results in 5mb sites and gives WP a bad reputation for being slow and clunky.
- taylorbuley 12y agoSlow front-end templating is definitely a major problem for many WordPress installs. Varnish can work some magic, as can a little Cloudflare, but agreed: WP performance must be engineered.
- marcperel 12y agoVarnish does go a long way, on the HTTP side combining and minifying scripts helps a lot too. I think the heavy load is almost the nature of the system, but there are some ways to alleviate the pain!
- kmfrk 12y agoYeah, it's what prompted the creation of Ghost. I sometimes see people doing more in WordPress than I have yet to get Django to do.
- madeofpalk 12y agoYeah, I know a startup which 'ingeniously' used Wordpress as their platform, turning it into a 'two sided commerce marketplace'. I'm not sure if it was brilliance or stupidity.
- mikeschinkel 12y agoQuestion is, how is their business model performing? Has WP hurt or helped that? In that end, that is really what matters.
- praveenster 12y agoHere is a direct link to the WPMUDEV site builder: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/introducing-upfront/ http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/introducing-upfront/ (Not affiliated to them. Just spent some time searching for it myself as it is nowhere mentioned on the WPMUDEV website)