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WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025 – Computerworld
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this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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I have tried it out like once every decade and it's always the same hot mess and I end up making my own homegrown html mess.
Is there no other FOSS alternative?
There are dozens, depending on what exactly you want to do.
WordPress started out as a terrible hack PHP app and somehow while PHP the language has been improving to allow people to build sane apps, WordPress has somehow gone the other direction to make themselves EVEN MORE INSANE.
It used to be you could make a custom styled theme by taking the default theme and editing the HTML/CSS to customize the pages.
The current default themes use the most insane methods known to webdev. They replaced CSS with JSON files. And then use CSS embedded in JSON embedded in HTML comments inside of PHP files. It's completely incomprehensible.
The best is trying to change the styling of page-builder plugins that shove their css god-knows-where in the Frankenstein's monster that is the WordPress database schema.
I'm so glad that I'm a million miles from WordPress now. I'm convinced it's propped up entirely by contractors and ad agencies with minimal to no understanding of how to actually build software and just build on a mountain of hacks to do anything at all.
I remember trying to edit the default theme once and simply couldn't work out why everything had a 5px margin around it. Even setting
* {margin: 0 !important}didn't fix itIn the end it turned out to be an inline style, injected into the page by JS, after the rest of the page had loaded. It was apparently a fix for an IE6 bug, in 2019, why?
I build Craft CMS sites at work. It’s a paid product, but has a free version with some minor limitations and is open source. It’s fantastic.
TYPO3, Drupal, Joomla and others come to mind, but these are fully fledged CMS and not as end-user friendly as WordPress.
Oh no, Joomla is just Wordpres with worse documentation.
The fully-fledged WP alternative should be called WordPrint
I've been looking into Payload CMS. It's FOSS for the non Enterprise features I believe.
Interesting but man, their website ( https://payloadcms.com/ ) is a resource hog, it crawls 😐 not a good showcase...
Honestly, Docusaurus. The idea of a site for editing the site is so overkill. Docusaurus is great, just write some Markdown, convert to standard HTML. It's what I use for: https://nowsci.com.
That sounds like in-site editing with extra steps
How?
I actually use a system like that, mdbook?
You write in ml (open, modify, save), and then you have to "compile it" to static html that you then have to upload to your site.
Online editing: open site, hit some [EDIT] button, modify, hit [SAVE].
SO quite much more user friendly, lots of less steps.
Isn't ghost an alternative?
Every once in a while I go looking for FOSS alternates to WordPress . . .can't find one. Ghost is the closest I got and it's nowhere near the same.
Publii is a good alternative.