WordPress Pros and Cons

"What Wordpress did for the web" is a dangerous comparison.

Wordpress has it's advantages, for example the huge number of plugins...

People keep saying wp is bad. Ye it is from your point of view. But there are maybe billions who have no clue how internet works but they want a site/blog/shop whatever. Many of them don't even think about paying someone to make a website, or pay for tools.So they pick wordpress: 1 click install in cpanel, no html, css, js, php knowledge whatsoever, pick a free theme from millions of themes, pick plugins from millions free ones, done. Maybe a bit of google to personalize it but

>I cannot see why people use WordPress over the likes of Concrete5 or a full CMS on any other platform outside of WordPress being accessible for entry-level developers.I run a very modestly profitable website that gets about 1k visitors per day. I'm not even an "entry-level developer", I'm not a developer at all, with only the most rudimentary ability to kludge together a little JS and php.I chose Wordpress for the site, even though it's not a blog. In fact, creating a system where po

Wordpress is an extremely new framework, so it will be new to a lot of developers, but it provides an extremely performant developer friendly product. One drawback is that it is highly specialized, so it only had a few applications but luckily upvoted fits into this niche. Hosting is really still a problem as their is a lack of providers and a steep complexity curve. No one has really provided a flexible way to host a platform like wordpress and coupled with the lack of maturity and bleeding edg

Umm, wordpress is a useful widely supported lowest common denominator

WordPress is probably not the only one but the issue with others is that at some point, you hit a wall with them. It is really hard to beat the ease of setting up WordPress (tons of 1 click hosts), ease of extending functionality (need social share? There is a plugin for that). If you need a blog for a non technical person, you just cannot beat WordPress. The codebase may be ugly but who cares.

To me Wordpress sounds exactly a suggestion you'd get from someone who doesn't have to maintain it. I.e. frontend dev.

I am not familiar with them, but a quick Google seems to suggest they won’t work with WPEngine, Wordpress.com, etc. In any event, they’re bolt on solutions, but the core of Wordpress is still a mess of configuration split between files on disk and the database. There is nothing so valuable about Wordpress that you couldn’t just get a more reliable solution from scratch than by bolting more stuff onto WP. I’ve heard people say “oh, our users are already trained on WP, so it’s a good CMS” but I do

Just stay with Wordpress, if you like WordPress. It's a vast community. Nothing is even close in terms of marketshare and popularity.Most people do not care about this drama. And they dont want to care about it because it is their golden goose and customers are used to it.Yes, some people do care, and yes they are very vocal. And yes there are a lot for those voices here.Just look at X.Is still around and still has an extreme amount of users. and it looks like some of folks th