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by aphextron
1845 days ago
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>The concept was great, but it has basically become a "website builder" and not really a piece of blogging software anymore. You can definitely turn it into practically anything, and it quickly becomes a mess due to the fact that it was never meant to be an application platform. But WordPress is still best in class at what it was meant to do; a simple self hosted blog. |
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A guy I know runs a blog for his non-profit on WordPress. At one point he asked me for help because pages were loading extremely slowly. It turned out the blog had been hacked and was being used to host gigabytes of junk pages with SEO boosting links to really trashy websites.
I used to recommend WordPress wholeheartedly for self-hosted blogs, but these days I strongly prefer something that doesn't have any back-end code that the site owner has to maintain and/or update -- a static site generator, a JAMStack-based blog, etc. Or consider using someone else's hosted blog platform (someone you really trust to host a secure platform).