If you buy website development service you do not necessarily care whether the provider writes custom code for WP or static site generator.
Why do you need a backend for GA or image gallery?
Re:WordPress 18
by iamacyborg on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:27AM
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Because you don't want to keep paying ongoing fees for new development when it could be as easy as installing a plugin.
But image gallery does not need any "additional development". All it needs is frontend code to display the gallery nicely, some storage mechanism and a "manifest" of sorts with relevant metadata of the gallery.
If that is a photo-sharing website, then yes, proper backend is needed. But for a portfolio website of a photographer, which gets updated once a month at best, static manifest will work wonders.
I love the idea that "frontend code" is somehow not "additional development". Have fun with your "manifest" and "metadata".
I equally love the idea that hiring a web agency to build a wordpress template is somehow entirely different thing from hiring a web agency to build a not-wordpress template.
The frontend code which eventually renders the image gallery does not care whether fetched image list is produced by PHP code or is served by http server directly from filesystem.
> But image gallery does not need any "additional development". All it needs is frontend code to display the gallery nicely, some storage mechanism and a "manifest" of sorts with relevant metadata of the gallery
I can't tell if u missed a /s or genuinely think that isn't additional dev.
Those are just some examples that with Wordpress, it's a click and pretty much plug and play. With the static site generator you're proposing, you quickly need to do coding yourself.