I've been a WP developer for more than 10 years and have had enough.
I'm doing what I can to persuade clients that WP isn't the only solution, and that CMS's like Statamic and frameworks like Laravel can be a viable and cost effective solution.
I'm doing what I can to persuade clients that WP isn't the only solution, and that CMS's like Statamic and frameworks like Laravel can be a viable and cost effective solution.
Ghost, maybe?
I last used it in 1., and picked it up 2 weeks ago when I found myself needing a headless CMS.
I got a sense from the new features since 1. that it's moving towards a membership system which might not be relevant for many websites.
In terms of an editor and a way to expose content, is good enough; but like I say with more developers, this could bring more hands to implement stronger plugin systems and improve the core editing options.
I've stopped recommending the self-hosted (wordpress.org) version to non technical people (even if it's a 1 click hosting platform), because there are just too many things that can go wrong, particularly with plugins.
As a developer, my experience with Statamic and Laravel has been joyful, compared to WP.
I did this for a few friends, hosted them on my server, set up Wordpress. Worked for some but most found even Wordpres too complicated. I sent to them to Squarespace and they're happy with that, albeit paying a hefty enough monthly fee after the initial trial period. Not my problem though! washing my hands
I really wanted to like Gutenberg. I learned how to build blocks (and the f- me, they totally changed a ton of stuff about how that works).
At this point, I have some pretty deep knowledge about WP and how to make it do all kinds of funky stuff it shouldn't do... but holy hell if I could get the sales folks to start selling about any other CMS I'd do that in a heart beat.
But I'd still have 600 or so legacy WP sites to support. I'm grateful to have work, and WP can be a real shit show when you look at that many sites.
Those would give you a modest plugin ecosystem to get stuff like form submissions, but also give developers an escape hatch for when something more custom is required.