Comments on: Why WordPress Sucks

By: Carlos Gonzalez

Carlos Gonzalez — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:50:37 +0000

Hi Frank,

Well it makes it easier to some degree if you don’t know what you are doing or do not have the time to create your own PHP controlled and generated web site.

But if you know how to work with HTML, CSS, and PHP it is far, far easier, more efficient, less bloated with features you will never need, more secure, and much better to create your own site.

On my site all I have to do is edit a simple text file to make changes on any page I wish. Adding a new page is likewise almost as easy as creating a new text file. That’s it! I don’t have to sign in to WordPress and go through their menus to find the page I want to edit and change. I don’t have to wait for a feature to be implemented in WordPress. I don’t have to upgrade to the newest version to fill a security hole. Or anything of the sort.

I just open up a text editor, traverse to the directory where I keep my site pages, open the one I want to change, make my changes, test them locally, and then upload them to the host server where the changes become instant.

Admittedly a number of steps but overall far less steps than using WordPress as a CMS for a small web site.

Carlos

By: fthomas

fthomas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:54:01 +0000

Totally agreed Carlos. Sometimes it’s like taking a sledge hammer to kill a fly.

All said though, I do use wordpress even for small sites. With automation, it just is too easy to use.

Frank

By: Carlos Gonzalez

Carlos Gonzalez — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:29:52 +0000

I think you make some valid points in why wordpress sucks. For many small sites I think a better alternative to WordPress is to create some PHP scripts that read relatively simple text files with page content in them and which use that content to generate the pages of a site.

Changes to web site pages can then be made by using a simple text editor without having to work through the WordPress framework to make those changes.

Just my two cents worth.

Carlos