The complicated futility of WordPress

Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by Gigachad on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:07PM (#30173588)

I think it's probably too late to save wordpress. Squarespace and such are just better products for the average company. It would require a fundamental redesign of wordpress to solve its issues and at that point it just becomes a clone of the existing products.

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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by noahtallen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:07AM (#30179443)

You might be surprised to learn that:

> WordPress is used by 65.3% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 43.3% of all websites. [1]

And these numbers have been growing for years. In other words, WordPress is and will be widely used for a long time. So I’m not sure WordPress really needs saving. :p The number of OSS contributors has also been growing. So the project itself hasn’t been stagnating either.

Disclaimer: I’ve been a WordPress contributor and work for Automattic.

1: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress

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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by Gigachad on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:28PM (#30183560)

Sorry, I didn’t mean in a popularity way. But security wise, I don’t know how it would be possible to make Wordpress secure when the average user installs a bunch of plugins / themes and then leaves never to update it again. I just can’t see how this can work without becoming a fully managed platform.

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