Re:WordPress now runs a quarter of the web
by DrewAPicture on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @04:30AM
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The first problem is pigeon-holing it as a blogging platform that you have to bolt stuff onto. There's a lot more to WordPress than blogging these days. The origins are still there, sure, but fewer and fewer sites these days are using that as a starting place.
> On the funny end of the scale, I've seen five page static websites with a landing page, a few info pages and a form done with WP. Unbelievable. Are developers that lazy today that they throw WP at everything?
I see some version of this question all the time. The main problem is that you're thinking about it from a development perspective only. The major thing WordPress brings to the table is democratization of publishing from the user perspective. You see a five page site some dev built and wonder where the benefit is. The benefit is that the actual owner of the site, the "user" can easily control, modify, add-on-to, or remove that content. They can easily turn it into a 10-page site if they want to.
With some of these other less user-friendly systems (such as static site generators), control largely rests in the hands of developers, with WordPress, it rests with the content owners.
> On the funny end of the scale, I've seen five page static websites with a landing page, a few info pages and a form done with WP. Unbelievable. Are developers that lazy today that they throw WP at everything?
I see some version of this question all the time. The main problem is that you're thinking about it from a development perspective only. The major thing WordPress brings to the table is democratization of publishing from the user perspective. You see a five page site some dev built and wonder where the benefit is. The benefit is that the actual owner of the site, the "user" can easily control, modify, add-on-to, or remove that content. They can easily turn it into a 10-page site if they want to.
With some of these other less user-friendly systems (such as static site generators), control largely rests in the hands of developers, with WordPress, it rests with the content owners.