The Achilles heel of WordPress is its backward and brittle storage format: every post is stored in the database, in "html kinda" format, plus random shortcodes initially, and now blocks encoded as JSON inside HTML comments. Plugins then add their own random formats on top of that, and store their metadata in another table, usually in serialized PHP object form.
It's a wobbly Jenga tower of technical debt, and WP's underlying architecture makes this mess fundamentally unfixable. There is zero political will to address these deep-seated design issues, or at least Matt Mullenweg has no will to fix them, which translates in reality to never getting fixed.
I know it's not the main topic of the post, but I think it may be worth pointing out that Bluehost is owned by a company infamous for poor quality hosting solutions and trying to monopolise the web hosting field:
So regardless of whether you go with WordPress or a different solution, you may want to be cautious about that company. They tend to oversell their services a lot, and care mostly about cost cutting.
Seems like they went through a bunch of vibe coding only to come up with a half-baked copy of Astro. And why not just use Astro? It's got the exact features that they've built, many more, and a large and bustling community.
I had been using WordPress since, what I remember, back in 2004 or 05. I think that was the first time I used WordPress and I stopped using it last year when Vibe Coding helped me build something with NextJS and Sanity and other CMSs as well. I've actually quite enjoyed the Vibe Coding part but I do miss WordPress from time to time.
WordPress is dynamic and incredibly customizable. You could vibe code a huge variety of web applications onto WordPress. Not saying that’s a good idea. But WordPress is successful exactly because it’s dynamic and highly personalizable. So your comment makes no sense.
Sure buddy. Wake me up when it actually happens. What good is being able to vibe code all your software if you have to maintain it all yourself after? On Anthropic's token quota no less?
I had a friend who used it for promoting businesses and one the main advantages was it wasn't "dynamic, fully personalised" which meant you could use standard plugins, swap in different programmers who knew how it worked and so on.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 38.8 ms ] threadIt's a wobbly Jenga tower of technical debt, and WP's underlying architecture makes this mess fundamentally unfixable. There is zero political will to address these deep-seated design issues, or at least Matt Mullenweg has no will to fix them, which translates in reality to never getting fixed.
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So regardless of whether you go with WordPress or a different solution, you may want to be cautious about that company. They tend to oversell their services a lot, and care mostly about cost cutting.
I've gotten my most tech-averse friend on this flow.
WordPress had its time, and I'm thankful for that time. But the overhead is no longer worth it for the broad audience it use to serve
I had a friend who used it for promoting businesses and one the main advantages was it wasn't "dynamic, fully personalised" which meant you could use standard plugins, swap in different programmers who knew how it worked and so on.
The solution I'm using is certainly not as mature and featureful as WordPress, but I don't have to patch it for security holes so frequently either.