WordPress vs Static Generators

Works for me too -- for me, Gatsby or Hugo etc are quicker and simpler than WPEspecially long term wrt security

Wordpress is a full-featured CMS. Most people would be better off with something like a static site generator

I almost always use Wordpress for Blogs and sites in general.Reasons:If I leave it for 10 years and come back I will know how to maintain it. The tools will exist (especially if WordPress auto upgrades).If I use some static site gen, I will need to remember all the syntax, use some docker container to run the version I used all that time ago. Even coming back to it after a year can leave me with confusion.Also WordPress has a brilliant ecosystem of plugins and themes. And if you are

You are right, Wordpress is not just Wordpress. And the obvious thing that we are missing is the plugin ecosystem that Wordpress has.That being said, if you can do without plugins, I would highly recommend using a static site generator as it can reduce your development cost as well as your management cost. There is no backend to build and no server to manage. Forestry is a tool to allow you to take advantage of the benefits of a static site generator from a development and management perspect

use wordpress over ghost everytime

My site runs on WordPress and sitegrounds, it's very fast. But the learning curve is higher than netlify and jekyll due to having to learn WordPress.My site has too much garbage content I wrote on it at the moment (in hindsight I wrote whatever came to mind). Half my pages aren't even exactly done yet.I'm going to focus less on writing opinionated articles, more on useful articles and or tutorials on there or well thought out reflections related to lessons learned.Short t

Just use WordPress. These other options like Jekyll or a headless CMS will be too complicated.

Wordpress has plugins to generate static sites. You can have your rich editing and fast loading times as well.

I am afraid to sound millennial but why not WordPress + Static Site Generator Plugin? I totally get it, this is a fun project to test some skills but if the concern was going live, I can go live with vanilla wordpress with their default theme in less than a minute.

>tl;dr: Use a static site generator.Most People that use WordPress are not develoeprs or technical people. Find similar product with a WYSIWYG GUI , theme , plugins, cheap hosting, no bullshit licensing or breaking backwards compatibility and promote it to people or whoever hosts this blogs.I think you are suggesting someone to replace his IDE with notepad since you can build application with notepad and gcc directly.