Re:Building a personal website in 2021
by ValentineC on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:33PM
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WordPress's core APIs might be very well-supported, but most of their plugin ecosystem doesn't have such guarantees.
I recently tried to revive a 2014 backup of my local hackerspace's website so that I could staticize it, but it wouldn't look right even with the same PHP and MySQL versions, because many of the plugins stopped working.
I think I would have been better off scraping a copy of the site from Archive.org.
Re:Building a personal website in 2021
by temp8964 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:02PM
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Yes. Many plugs will retire, but most mainstream plugins should work or easy to find replacement. A personal website / blog without too many customizations should be easy to revive.
I recently tried to revive a 2014 backup of my local hackerspace's website so that I could staticize it, but it wouldn't look right even with the same PHP and MySQL versions, because many of the plugins stopped working.
I think I would have been better off scraping a copy of the site from Archive.org.