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Re:WordPress 18 by friendzis on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:04PM (#27320490)
"Joe's porchbuilding" does not send automated greetings. They want a website that is discoverable on Google by new clients and can display their pitch, everything else is negotiated on phone or by email anyway. You only need to worry about security issues if you build such a site on top of a dynamic platform. The updates and security issues disappear if you serve factually static content as static content.

Static site generators are bad for dynamic websites, but that does not mean you have to try and fit a whole dynamic platform into a static website. Different use cases, different tools.

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Re:WordPress 18 by IncRnd on Saturday May 29, 2021 @01:49PM (#27326946)
> "Joe's porchbuilding" does not send automated greetings.

And, that's false. Unless you make them run one of your restricted platforms that doesn't have the features they want and need for their business.

Wordpress runs 60% of CMS websites. 15% of the most viewed websites run Wordpress.

> You only need to worry about security issues if you build such a site on top of a dynamic platform.

Do you actually believe that there are no security issues with static websites?

Thank you for the conversation, but I'm going back to running my business.

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