Comments on: Why WordPress Sucks

By: fthomas

fthomas — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:27:57 +0000

Well, I hear the complaints about fussing with themes. I do feel your pain, but there is a lot of great options out there. Do you need to learn CSS or HTML? Possibly. You can drive a car without knowing how to change a flat, but it will cost you if you have to call a tow truck.

I do recommend learning a bit about html and css and avoid the heavily customized themes. A great theme to play with is flexsqueeze. Yes, it’s a $150 theme, but I’ve made $1,000’s from the theme in my customization business. Well worth the investment!

Frank

By: Jing

Jing — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:49:51 +0000

just A WARNING FOR PEOPLE WHO WISH TO START BLOGGIN ON WORDPRESS…

1. You HAVE to learn CSS and HTML coding or else your’re (its like taking a Computer programming course) pretty much run out of option on the creative side of WORDPRESS.

2. Some times you have to ask youself “is this what i paid for”? because honestly, i paid $75 dollars on a premium theme and $30 dollars on CUSTOM HTML thinking it will make things alot easier….no it didn’t you STILL HAVE TO RELY ON CSS or HTML CODING…

i’m sorry but i refuse to learn a computer course when all i wanted was to change some optons on my blogs.

By: Jing

Jing — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:40:23 +0000

Personally i think you have to have some sort of mastery of HTML coding to make any personal changes on wordpress blogs. For a beginner like me who wants to add creativity
i have to learn CSS! Um…okay…? i thought wordpress was a blog site not a computer course! Seriously,

Problem #1 – YOU DON”T GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR. At first i thought okay maybe if i tried out the premium themes so i can have some flexibility for my blog entry. so i paid over $75 dollars to wordpress and got the theme! Sadly, i STILL can’t change jack shit (excuse my french)!!!! Apparently, there are “rules” where you can’t change the HTML coding becuase of the theme. WTF?! I paid a jack load load money to have limitations on my blog?

Problem #2- SOME OPTIONS DONT WORK! Some of the options don’t work due to…”THEME RULES”. LIke i wanted to expand display of posts so i went on theme options and changed 5 to 15. Alas it did jack shit! If Wordpress staff is puting options to modify posts numbers at least make it actually work! *shakes fist at wordpress*

There are however i must admit good support group! People kind enough to answer your questions. But alas. I think problems seem arise more and more as wordpress become more expanded. -___- And yes i still refuse to learn CSS becuase at the end of the day, its about blogging not taking a computer course. *Sigh*

Sorry if my respond sounds negative, but I JUST REALLY MISS WINDOWS LIVE SPACES, since they changed to WP in March. EVERYTHING changed.

By: Ken West

Ken West — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:07:51 +0000

My main complaint is that help is so hard to find on the site. The forums are mostly dead or unresolved subjects. When I finally found a page that allowed me to email someone, it did not recognise my email address. There is no phone support and it is clear to me that they do not want to address problems personally. Although I am a beginner, and don’t know much about setting up a blog, I am seriously considering moving on to a company that cares.

By: Howard Martin

Howard Martin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:57:38 +0000

Carlos,
Thank you for ‘confirming’ my thoughts about Wordpress v. good ole PHP… I am back in amateur dev mode after some time away and I was taking another look at WordPress… I don’t want to get left in the dust if WP is the new Facebook of development – at the same time I do not want to become a ward of the WP state… My personal belief is that WP should be left to do what it does best, be a platform for amateur writers … WP templates are NOT professional looking and I hate the idea of my site being seen as less than… I have ’smart’ grad student friends who swear by WP and it drives me crazy, but also made me question myself a bit… the PHP script community has been awesome to me… I hope it lives forever… thanks for reassurance… and by the way FB is built on PHP!! Ha … Back to my PHP development and script downloads – and warm fussy secure feeling PHP provides… where’s my dream weaver icon, -click!! PHP, PHP, PHP!!!
Howard

By: Curt Hammack

Curt Hammack — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:14:04 +0000

Wordpress is no good.

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