Trust is lost forever.
These are good times for Wordpress alternatives to shine.
These are good times for Wordpress alternatives to shine.
It’s MIT licensed so anybody can use it, including people affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise.
12 years building sites on WP... not anymore.
But that's the problem. Wordpress is used for much much more. You can use it as a CMS, LMS, news platform, saas platform, and much more. You can literally customize it to the bone.
Ghost is a good alternative to wordpress, only if you're using it for 2-3 specific usecases.
And that freedom is also its weakness. "When all you have is a hammer, ..." comes to mind.
I've had to rescue enough booking systems, LMS's, and SaaS platforms built on WordPress with terrible performance or 20% of features not working to think this is a terrible approach.
> Ghost is a good alternative to wordpress, only if you're using it for 2-3 specific usecases.
That's no bad thing. More specialised tools help with performance and UX for those tasks.
You should be more specific about what you're trying to achieve.
Any alternative must have a hosted option, I'm not playing admin for something that already takes up a lot of my time, as I said out of the goodness of my heart and wallet.
The best I can say for wordpress is that myself, other contributors and our commenters tolerate it, though quite often it leans towards hate it. I've yet to hear anyone say they love it hence the ask.
Take your pick of commenting platforms from this 2021 thread:
But no, Drupal is not an alternative to Wordpress. Perhaps ten years ago but even then barely. Now? That's like saying a Kenworth semi is an alternative to a motorcycle. Sure, you can get from A to B on either but beyond that, they are really different tools for different jobs.
Maybe the new "Drupal CMS" (nee Starshot) initiative will bring them into direct competition again. We will see.
Multilingual is built into Drupal and as far as I am aware, it's a plugin for Wordpress.
Complex permissions/access control is another area where Drupal is much stronger.
And overall, the more complex the requirements are , the more likely Drupal will be the answer. Wordpress leans very heavily towards "here, install this, it'll work, you can tweak it and that's about it". Drupal gives you a gigantic bucket of LEGO. In other words, although it's a bit of an exaggeration but not badly, with Wordpress you start from a working website and there's only so far you can walk from that point. With Drupal, you need to walk quite a bit in the first place to get a good website but there's just no end how far you can walk.