[edgyquant]

Anymore? I stopped liking Wordpress before 2010, especially being a PHP programmer (back then) in small town Midwest where 90% of gigs I landed was fixing some monstrosity that some guys nephew threw together made up of a dozen+ plug-ins that had since been hacked on by a series of online personalities and a theme they purchases three years ago that they had paid five different people to “customize.”

Yeah sure I’d be glad to quickly change over this theme to match new designs. Wait every plug-in also has to be fought with since the templates for those have also been “customized.” Wait I have to match the HTML almost to a tee because the chrome plugin no one else has ever heard of says you have perfect SEO (despite only getting first page results with a highly specific query no human would ever type) and you think this will lower your score? :(

I’ll take a stressful 10 hours at a startup over that any day.

[stevenhuang]

> Wait I have to match the HTML almost to a tee because the chrome plugin no one else has ever heard of says you have perfect SEO (despite only getting first page results with a highly specific query no human would ever type) and you think this will lower your score? :(

That's hilarious. I'm assuming it would not have gone well to try to tell them otherwise?

[edgyquant]

Most of these people owned mom and pops or online stores; they weren’t tech savvy and tended to believe what they read on google (usually blogs trying to sell them Wordpress plugins, SEO guides and the like) so yeah it would have fell on def ears. It is funny, now that I don’t deal with it anymore.