WordPress is garbage. People need to realize that its superficial ease of use should not be a heavily weighted factor in choosing a CMS (for the record, WP is not a CMS, it's a blog script playing dress up). Making technical product decisions by argumentum ad populum is similarly dangerous. Pointing beginners at WP is to do them a great disservice in the long run.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:56PM (#48621909)
I do work for the top 100 or so comic sites out there (not including DC/Marvel you nerds) , and Wordpress is the worst thing to ever happen to online comics. 1) Insecure, a day doesn't go by without a comic reader claiming the site is hacked/serving malware (really, a third party ad network, but some WP plugins/themes are unsafe) 2) Uses an insane amount of memory to serve a single page uncached. The most "popular" Jetpack plugin adds adds more code bloat than WP itself is. 3) The thin CMS's I handcode/tuned use less than 1MB of memory, Wordpress uses somewhere near 96MB 4) The #1 reason people use Dreamhost/HostGator/etc bulk hosting, is to use their WP site. DreamHost/HostGator and similar "1$/mo" type hosts have no opcode cache, therefor the pages on these sites run 200x slower than they would if they were to share a 100$/mo server with 10 friends or so. 5) Many comic sites use the ComicPress plugin, which if you upgrade even from minor versions, it wrecks your site. Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x actually deletes your entire site. The Author of this plugin insists on adhering to "WP"'s way of doing things, which means there's like a dozen different code paths just for backwards compatibility to kludge through. 6) The RSS system insists on dumping html into RSS, thus defeating the purpose of RSS. 7) WP didn't switch from MySQL to MySQLi except under threat of PHP5.4 depreciating it. That, and many popular plugins use depreciated PHP functionality, so you may be forced to stick with PHP5.3 forever if your plugin doesn't use modern regex functions.
I make comics [urnash.com], and I am curious where one can find the thin CMS you have made that you say beats WP for comics. I'm pretty happy with WP+CP for serving my comics after tossing in a security plugin; I also use it for my blog, and my image gallery.
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Ugh, WordPress (Score:5, Informative)
WordPress is garbage. People need to realize that its superficial ease of use should not be a heavily weighted factor in choosing a CMS (for the record, WP is not a CMS, it's a blog script playing dress up). Making technical product decisions by argumentum ad populum is similarly dangerous. Pointing beginners at WP is to do them a great disservice in the long run.
Why is WP garbage?
Re:Ugh, WordPress (Score:3, Informative)
I do work for the top 100 or so comic sites out there (not including DC/Marvel you nerds) , and Wordpress is the worst thing to ever happen to online comics.
1) Insecure, a day doesn't go by without a comic reader claiming the site is hacked/serving malware (really, a third party ad network, but some WP plugins/themes are unsafe)
2) Uses an insane amount of memory to serve a single page uncached. The most "popular" Jetpack plugin adds adds more code bloat than WP itself is.
3) The thin CMS's I handcode/tuned use less than 1MB of memory, Wordpress uses somewhere near 96MB
4) The #1 reason people use Dreamhost/HostGator/etc bulk hosting, is to use their WP site. DreamHost/HostGator and similar "1$/mo" type hosts have no opcode cache, therefor the pages on these sites run 200x slower than they would if they were to share a 100$/mo server with 10 friends or so.
5) Many comic sites use the ComicPress plugin, which if you upgrade even from minor versions, it wrecks your site. Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x actually deletes your entire site. The Author of this plugin insists on adhering to "WP"'s way of doing things, which means there's like a dozen different code paths just for backwards compatibility to kludge through.
6) The RSS system insists on dumping html into RSS, thus defeating the purpose of RSS.
7) WP didn't switch from MySQL to MySQLi except under threat of PHP5.4 depreciating it. That, and many popular plugins use depreciated PHP functionality, so you may be forced to stick with PHP5.3 forever if your plugin doesn't use modern regex functions.
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I make comics [urnash.com], and I am curious where one can find the thin CMS you have made that you say beats WP for comics. I'm pretty happy with WP+CP for serving my comics after tossing in a security plugin; I also use it for my blog, and my image gallery.