Comment by ianlevesque
7 months ago
Yes, never self host Wordpress if you value your sanity. Even if it’s not the first hour it will eventually happen when you forget a patch.
7 months ago
Yes, never self host Wordpress if you value your sanity. Even if it’s not the first hour it will eventually happen when you forget a patch.
Hosting WordPress myself for 13 years now and have no problem :) Just follow standard security practices and don't install gazillion plugins.
There's a lot of essential functionality missing from WordPress, meaning you have to install plugins. Depending on what you need to do.
But it's such a bad platform that there really isn't any reason for anybody to use WordPress for anything. No matter your use case, there will be a better alternative to WordPress.
Can you recommend an alternative for a non-technical organization, where there's someone who needs to be able to edit pages and upload documents on a regular basis, so they need as user-friendly an interface as possible for that? Especially when they don't have a budget for it, and you're helping them out as a favor? It's so easy to spin up Wordpress for them, but I'm not a fan either.
I've tried Drupal in the past for such situations, but it was too complicated for them. That was years ago, so maybe it's better now.
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Just not true, although entirely aligned with HN users who often believe that the levels of nerdery on HN are common in the real world. WP isn’t bad, you’ve just done it wrong, and there really isn’t a better alternative for hundreds and hundreds of use cases..
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I do custom web dev so am way out of the website hosting game. What are good frameworks now if I want to say, light touch help someone who is slightly technical set up a website? Not full react SPA with an API.
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You can use WordPress as a static site generator: https://simplystatic.com/
Then WordPress is just your private CMS/UI for making changes, and it generates static files that are uploaded to a webhost like CloudFlare Pages, GitHub Pages, etc.
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I have better things to do with my time so I happily pay someone else to host it for me.
Never use that junk if you value your sanity, I think you mean.
I once worked for a US state government agency and my coworker was the main admin of our WordPress based portal and it was crazy how much work it was to keep working.
Ditto to self-hosting wordpress works fine with standard hosting practices and not installing a bazillion random plugins.