· ·

Should You Still Use WordPress?

In the Newsroom, Line49 excerpts news from cited sources around the world of digital creative, marketing and technology. Note that the opinions expressed within are those of the original source and not Line49.

Should You Still Use WordPress?

From Search Engine Journal, by Alex Moss

Last year was an interesting year for the CMS. WordPress Veteran Alex Moss discusses whether you should still use it or not. Spoiler: YES!

The last year has been quite eventful within the WordPress ecosystem, marked by discussions and disputes that have prompted some to question the long-term sustainability of the platform and consider exploring alternative solutions.
However, when you dive deeper into these concerns, they pale in comparison to WordPress’s enduring strengths as a product and its unmatched versatility in the CMS space.

While other CMS platforms can perhaps be a good alternative to a “standard informational site”, or a site that has no customization requirements at all from the normal out-of-the-box functionality (which eventually happens for every site that starts to scale in any way), you have to make very informed decisions about whether it’s actually worth it – and what the problem is that you believe you’re solving.

View the full story

More Stories