I manage 140+ websites for a university and we use a CMS. We could not live without it. But I have a handful of friends that make their living using wordpress to standup small to medium sites. As a CMS, wordpress makes their customer's life easy to edit content and add pages and such. IT still takes a tech to create the site.
I don't do outside work so my feelings are more just my gut and not based on direct experience. But having migrated several university blogs away from wordpress into the cms I know I sleep better at night not worrying about wordpress vulnerabilities. We have had several WP blogs successfully attacked and getting them back to a proper state was just terribly complicated.
We really need easy tools for small sites (maybe <50 pages, or simple blogs). Static publishing for those with a little technical bent are useful but for others not really approachable.
Recently I have been looking at http://dodgercms.com/ and a recently cloned derivative https://bitbucket.org/matthewdlevy/drafty. Both are not really ready for prime time and set up requires a little knowledge of AWS but once set up, creating a small site is pretty easy.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 12.4 ms ] threadI don't do outside work so my feelings are more just my gut and not based on direct experience. But having migrated several university blogs away from wordpress into the cms I know I sleep better at night not worrying about wordpress vulnerabilities. We have had several WP blogs successfully attacked and getting them back to a proper state was just terribly complicated.
We really need easy tools for small sites (maybe <50 pages, or simple blogs). Static publishing for those with a little technical bent are useful but for others not really approachable.
Recently I have been looking at http://dodgercms.com/ and a recently cloned derivative https://bitbucket.org/matthewdlevy/drafty. Both are not really ready for prime time and set up requires a little knowledge of AWS but once set up, creating a small site is pretty easy.