Saddam Azad

What are your biggest pain points with Wordpress?

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Asking Wordpress theme developers, plugin developers, designers, front-end developers, marketers, bloggers, E-commerce entrepreneurs, people who maintain WP sites and anybody who works/worked with Wordpress in any capacity. Some common problems: - Site Performance Issues [after plugin installs and theme customization] - Plugin ecosystem [Free and Premium] is messy. Hard to choose good plugins - Price of premium plugins add up - Theme ecosystem [Free and Premium]. Most themes are bloated mess. - Site builders [Elementor, Gutenberg] make for easy customization but comes at a performance cost - Hosting, server configuration - Caching - No support for modern development tools (composer, npm) - Setting up on a new server - Finding good freelancers to make customization - Site maintenance. Crashes and white screen of death. These are few of the issues I have faced personally. What are your biggest issues with the world's most popular CMS?

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Abe Winter
this is years ago, might be better now -- I tagged in to help launch a friend's WP site, and version control + local dev environment were *really hard* to get right. None of my instincts from python / js / go / whatever ported over. guessing this exists by now, but some way to version environment, theme + content locally would be amazing.
MJ Zuppe
You covered all the big items, except for one: security. Wordpress sites get targeted specifically. The more plug-ins and customizations that are used increases the difficulty to keep up to date of the latest vulnerabilities.
I'm not really a professional Wordpress developer, I've just built a few basic websites so far for personal use with Wordpress. I have only used free plugins so far so things might be different for paid ones, but it gets really frustrating sometimes to find the perfect set of plugins that work with each other smoothly. The themes usually come with their own bundled plugins without which they can't function. But sometimes those plugins fail to meet my needs. Then I again end up having to find new plugins that are also compatible with the theme and its plugins.
Richard Shepherd
The fact that people seem to hold Wordpress up as some kind of demi-god and that you'd be mad for suggesting there were excellent alternatives. This opinion seems to exist in the 'website development as a local service' world. You're high-street web designer. Excellent at what they do, radical about Wordpress! Wordpress is about as useful as marzipan car in my humble opinion.
Andrey
Everything in Wordpress is a pain. Usually it works like this. You install Wordpress for your startup idea, find some plugins and install them doing weird settings to make them work together. Then it fills like the goal is close but you need a Wordpress developer to make some final touches. Then some guy from upwork messes things up and some stuff even kind of work but everything is buggy, slow, and unstable. You try another guy, and then one more. And then you realise it was a wrong path but you've already flushed your money down the toilet. You can toy with Wordpress or even have a blog based on Wordpress, but if you're working on a serious commercial project, Wordpress is never an option.