WordPress is a popular open-source content management system (CMS) that enables users to create and manage websites with ease. It was first released in 2003 and since then, WordPress is one of the most popular CMS used.
However:
- WordPress sites can sometimes become slow and sluggish, especially if too many plugins are installed or if the theme is poorly coded.
- Being the most popular CMS, WordPress is a frequent target for hackers. Though the WordPress core is secure, vulnerabilities can arise from third-party themes and plugins.
- While WordPress can handle sites with varying sizes, high-traffic sites might require significant optimization.
So let's discuss on this main questions:
- What alternatives to WordPress do you know?
- Which one have you used, and what was your experience with them?
- Would you use dev.to as a data provider for your portfolios?
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Top comments (39)
There are hundreds of better tools out there. Every single one is better for some and worse for others. You have to find the right one for you. You can create your personal optimized WordPress Themen with everything inside you need. I dont get why people install for example bloated Slider plugins when you, can do it quite simple yourself.
I've used Wordpress in the past and am moving one of my older websites away from it as I think too many plugins ended up causing it to become super slow.
I'm currently using Ghost for my personal blog but I've been enjoying Dev.To for it's community much more.
btw your personal blog looks great
Thanks dude. Really glad you like it, it's been really fun to write and set up
Yeah, community makes the difference
This is an amazing question! Despite WordPress (WP) being a robust system and considered the most user-friendly, there are many different content management systems (CMS) available. The company I used to work for used to advocate for WP as the go-to solution for blogs and content-based websites.
However, one of our clients came in with their own requirements:
We didn't need a backend as Strapi provided REST APIs for the data. Since Strapi is open-source, it boasts numerous existing extended plugins. It offers a great user interface and is self-hostable, although they also offer a paid cloud version.
Working with Strapi made me realize that we can create cutting-edge websites while enjoying the convenience of a CMS for managing content.
I've heard about Strapi and it seems really promising. As a full-stack dev, creating a front-end is not a problem for me, and it will be more efficient for my specific case than a template built for general use.
Yes, Strapi is a good alternative to a lot of problems.
Although it might not be the best solution any places where you actually need a backend. I can recommend for working with a content driven website, but I can't say the same for other alternatives.
I'm curious what the popular sentiment on this question is. I don't have an answer I'm super sure of, personally.
I'm currently trying to utilize DEV's API as data provider for my portfolio instead of WordPress because WordPress is huge, and I don't need 90% of its functionality, and on the other hand, dev.to already has all my articles, stable and secure enough. However, DEV's API is missing info about series, and also it would be nice to have body_html alongside body_markdown to make integration easier without bringing Jekyll to the codebase
How hard it would be to add these fields to the response?
I have been using WordPress for my personal works as well as clients since 7-8 years now. It has really evolved in terms of performance as well as ease of use with introduction to Block Editor & Themes.
But still to accomplish a complete solution out of it , you will require many plugins, widgets and adons. Thus making it heavy loaded and increase in response time.
I prefer Webflow and Framer as a great alternative to WordPress. Webflow & Framer gives you hassle free self hosted CMS you can use out of box.
The minimal interface & advanced tools, helps designers to create pixel perfect websites with dynamic data and even custom logic using flows.
But it's totally a preference of client. If flexible, I would go for Webflow.
"many plugins, widgets and add-ons" is also a problem. You have to learn them and know the differences to choose the most optimal ones.
Thanks for your suggestions! I'll take a look at WebFlow and Framer
WP is one of the most "popular" meaning most installed. His challenger is Joomla, less "popular" (less installed) but certainly to my opinion better.
Much robust (his code is clean and strong), a lot of native things like multilingual support, ACLs (users's rights and permissions), an administration interface natively responsive and accessible (for people having some difficulties),...
For me, and this is purely personal, joomla is far better.
launch.joomla.org/
It's a very "it depends" question :)
Overall, I find WP an excellent CMS, if done right. Too many plugins, not understanding hooks, and using them in the wrong way, etc may lead to a slow website.
Also, very often converting WP to static might be a great solution and a one better than going headless.
Apart from WordPress, I can also recommend:
It all depends on your needs. There are so many CMS flavors that it's not a simple task to pick the perfect CMS.
I also have an article about this :D
Thanks for the response! I'll check out the article!
I was never hugely keen on Wordpress and then they changed a few years ago (probably longer than I think) to the blocks way of doing things and I lost the plot 😂
I currently use Hugo (gohugo.io) to create a static site. I really like it, but it definitely needs more tech knowledge than Wordpress...
It looks like Hashnode is eating up all the tech blogs that used to be on Medium, and even starting to challenge Dev. Although the community here is amazing, the headless CMS and general awesomeness of Hashnode is so great for personal things with your own domain.
I'd use Ghost before I'd use Wordpress. It's cleaner and lighter and more modern. Whatever those terms mean to you.
Yeah, hashnode is doing well on the market, but I like dev more for its simplicity
In my company we take on a lot of clients WP sites, but internally when we create sites from scratch we use CraftCMS. It's free unless you want multiple users, but it's got a very robust templating language and the CMS is easy to use for devs and content writers.
ProcessWire indeed.
is a wonderful tool that executes in the same server requirements as Wordpress and it provides powerful features and is as old as Wordpress too!.
processwire.com/
Looks interesting, thank you for suggestion. What are the strengths of ProcessWire over WordPress?
I use ProcessWire since 2014, and I made a website in 2015 with ProcessWire for a restaurant.
Still being used and updated regulary with new data.
Some forum posts:
For WordPress type websites I would probably use Astro.JS
Yeah, I'm already using astro.js as base framework for building the site.
If you want to stay in the (modern) PHP world you should take a look at Statamic. Its a Laravel based CMS that has a huge range of third party extensions.
I'm sure that I don't wanna touch any PHP in the near future :D
strapi is super.
it serves you as backoffice, Cms, apis for frontend and what not!
Elanat CMS
Elanat CMS GitHub link
Elanat is a powerful CMS under .NET Core.
I think .NET will use more resources by default comparing to PHP or other languages. And Elanat CMS has only one maintainer, and not many users, which could be a problem when some problem will be found out.
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