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Not gonna bash PHP, but WP... never again.


My experience with WordPress has been broadly positive under certain use cases. What were the negatives you saw/issues you ran into?


I've had enough problems with WP installs that I won't ever touch it again and I don't even want to list specific issues, but it's all about quality. So for a while it has been the same story, over and over:

    - non technical someone wants a CMS
    - I tell them I'll build them what they need, then give them a quote
    - non technical someone doesn't like my quote and installs Wordpress and a gazillion shiny plugins, because "it's easy with the shiny admin panel and I can install it anywhere for cheap and all the functionality is already covered in plugins"
    - things break, because plugins are meh
    - things go real bad, security issues, loss of data, shitty performance, the whole piñata
    - non technical someone cries over the phone "can you fix my website ???"
    - I won't fix their website because I like to build things, not clean up someone else's mess. Feel free to fill that business opportunity but I want to do something else.




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