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Shai Almog4y ago
100% agree!
We used a static site builder for Codename One (JBake) and it had its issues. But worked well overall. Hosting was easy, everything worked. The one major drawback was the commenting system which had issues. I do believe there's a simple solution for that too...
Our marketing guy really wanted wordpress so we migrated to it as it's the "industry standard". Huge mistake. So many problems. So much overhead. Every plugin is a nightmare and we don't get any benefit. We thought we'd at least enjoy WooCommerce or similar plugins... Nope. Couldn't get it to work properly with our flow. The one benefit is the SEO tools, but even those aren't as important. There are other alternatives we could have used.
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Chris Bongers4y ago
WordPress tends to do that indeed, all fun and games at first, oh we can simply install these 100x plugins.
Couple weeks later half of them are injected with virus software, break your layout of just never get updated.
Believe me, WordPress is a great system, but it comes with some hefty drawbacks.
Thanks for responding to this article Shai, appreciate it 🙌
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