| 7 Reasons why WordPress for Your Startup Is Not Your Best and Smartest Option: 1) Self hosting stuff is always a major time sink, especially for small companies. Backups of files and DB, server OS updates, and security are all your problems. Shared hosting has incredibly old versions of software, like PHP5 or still MySQL 5.6. 2) WordPress will never be really secure, the way it's built prevents that. You will always worry if your site is susceptible to hacking and have to keep up to date with the latest security disclosures and update your site. 3) Prebuilt themes are a trainwreck when it comes to customization. Hyperspecific CSS selectors, inline CSS in style tags and attributes, shoddy PHP in templates without any real separation of template and business logic. That matters, because you don't want your site to look quite the same as everyone elses. 4) It's 13 years old and there are newer, more modern, and secure alternatives, like Ghost, static site generators, Squarespace, or Webflow. 5) CDN integration is nowadays a must, especially if you are global. Integrating a CDN into WordPress' media upload is a PITA. 6) Translating content is a major PITA in WordPress. There are newer systems that address that. Every major translation plugin in WordPress has some minor incompatibility with another plugin, e.g. Polylang didn't work well with WP Sync DB. 7) Custom field support out of the box is laughable. WordPress isn't any fun without Advanced Custom Fields. |