Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld

Re:Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi h... by josefresco on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:10AM (#37916359)

"mine"

That critique would be fair if I was talking about my one WordPress site but I'm talking about hundreds, maybe even a thousand if you count sites I've built that came and went. It's a pretty decent sample size (IMHO) both for the number of instances but also the time period (10+ years). And it's also not 300 clone sites, each one was built unique, and each has their own mix of plugins & themes.

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Re:Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi h... by sonicanatidae on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:34AM (#37916766)

Unless you manage every Wordpress site out there, you're biased.

YOU, are a technical person and understand the value of updates, vetting plugins, etc, yet a majority of these sites aren't run by people like you/me. They are run by end users, with all of the baggage.

You have a point, to an extent. I wholly disagree with your stance on WP though. It's got issues, numerous issues, and a majority of the sites aren't professionally managed.

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Re:Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi h... by jshwlkr on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:29PM (#37917616)

I don't understand your argument. Are you trying to suggest WP isn't safe or WP isn't easy?

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Re:Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi h... by sonicanatidae on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:03PM (#37918118)

Both.

You're worried about your fleet and that's great. I'm more concerned with the internet as a whole and Wordpress is just vuln after vuln.

I'm happy your systems are secure. That's great.

Unfortunately, that doesn't apply to the 1000s of installations done by amateurs, lax IT, etc. etc. that make the WP vulns a much bigger issue than the 300 you manage.

Manage on, friend.

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