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  • colin_s0

    is there a decent light weight alt to WP these days?

    ive never used 5.x until now and holy shit i hate it

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    • Craft was always the better option. https://craftcms.com…
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    • not to mention any flat file cms out there, Kirby is awesome: https://getkirby.com…
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    • not to mention Twill from Area17 based on Laravel https://twill.io/
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    • Idk any major agency using WP for clients websites.
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    • also if you run a blog/subscriptions Ghost is the only best option: https://ghost.org/
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    • for anything else, you have Webflow https://webflow.com/… but it's pricey per year for the CMS+hosting
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    • ^BUT webflow will crush WP in a few years, it's basically InDesign/Photoshop for web +ecommerce + CMS + hosting in the same package
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    • concrete5ESKEMA
    • ^lol nobody wants to have in their folio a website build with concrete 5, that's for corner shop websites...
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    • But yes, there are a lot of headless cms systems, Jekyll, etc. but you need to be a full stack dev to handle those, or to have a 10 man dev team to handle those
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    • we're in the "action script phase" of cms systems, where you need to be past a front-end/designer to handle anything
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    • I'm a designer who can code, but anything past what I mentioned above needs a dev team to handle a project...
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    • btw there's still lots of cash in WP projects, decent ones can earn you 50-100K...but WP is very high upkeep/security
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    • I'd rather use Webflow these days for small-mid projects, WP is too expensive for a free option...
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    • also ppl/clients that go "why can't you use a $49 theme to do this project" are fucking idiots lol stay away from those
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    • just download the classic editor plugin and voila, it's Wordpress pre 5.0fadein11
    • with all the benefitsfadein11
    • "concrete5, that's for corner shop websites" lol. You sure have all the knowledge. What makes you say that? Your ignorance? I use concrete5 since 2008.ESKEMA
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