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I've been looking for an alternative that let's me set up a site for non-technical users but I haven't found any open-source alternative. With Wordpress I can install something like GeneratePress & Blocks, set up ACF and add some custom fields, and anyone can manage the site. End users don't want to be writing React and Tailwind to edit their site.

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Payload 3 (currently beta) doesn't look bad, but a site still needs some work from somebody who can at least somewhat code, and it's not just installing wordpress, generatepress and ACF.

Same for Directus.

But again, not a 1-to-1 WP replacement.

I think any sort of headless CMS or at least one with a decoupled presentation layer would work well these days. directus, webflow etc.

Tell me of one where a small business can get an experienced CMS user/editor/publisher on practically zero notice, and at basically regular office admin payrates.

_That_ is WordPress's "killer feature".

And its why my best guess at the long term outcome here involves a smoking crater where Matt's reputation and Automattic/wordpress.com/WordPress Foundation/wprdpress.org used to be, and either a similarly "Mutually Assured Destruction" crater where WPEngine once was, or perhaps a decimated-by-legal-bills hollow shell of what it is now.

And something like ClassicPress or AspirePress or other forks to "soak up" the huge existing talent pool of people who know how to run websites using something close enough to what WordPress used to be, and the thousands for hundreds of thousands of theme/plugin developers and Wordpress specialist developers/agencies/contractors choosing to hitch their professional lives to one or all of the emergent forks.

And for millions of website owners to shake their heads again at how annoying but essential IT nerds and their stupid drama are for them to run their business/website...

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