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Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again by tootie on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:25PM (#25888413)
A pretty standard stack I've done recently is Netlify, Gatsby (I'd lean next at this point) with Prismic, Hubspot and GTM. It's barely more investment to setup than WordPress but lets you build something visually sophisticated really easily and you get user friendly CMS, CRM and all the analytics and user engagement stuff. And running headless means there's almost zero attack surface.
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Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again by rapind on Saturday January 23, 2021 @10:24PM (#25888835)
Which CMS were you using though? Netlify CMS? Last I looked at it, there was a lot to be desired (not to belittle their effort, but not even close to WP in terms of functionality).

Worth mentioning you can also run WP headless and build your front end in w/e js framework du jour you prefer.

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Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again by tomduncalf on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:29AM (#25890364)
They mentioned Prismic, so I assume they are using that as CMS
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Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again by arcturus17 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:33AM (#25890906)
The very point of OP is that this micro-service approach is bound to provide a poorer user experience for non-technical users - the vast majority will reason about and operate a monolithic CMS with much more ease.
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Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again by tootie on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:48AM (#25903693)
Poorer author experience maybe. The end user experience will likely be better. And the business results of using a proper CRM and audience engagement product will be far superior.
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