Why does WordPress suck?

a) Slower for visitors

You're selling less business, people are walking away from your malware that loads slow.

Search engines punish slow speed.

b) Slower to make

I hope you like carpel tunnel. WordPress forces you to go in a browser and manually modify shit with a mouse, which is proven to hurt your hands in the long term. Plus it's slow load speeds to work on something constantly reloading on a remote server, so you're urinating on your own time. On top of network issues with Tor

c) Leeching Big Tech malware.

You're leaking to the government your income, your sales, and reducing your freedom of speech. While it's technically true WordPress is "open source", it has malware Google fonts by default on the front end, jsdeliver to function, and Cloudflare and Google on the backend. Then to do most tasks, you to install 3rd party plugins which are often closed source and have security vulnerabilities. This is because WordPress suffers from mission creep, where they want to do everything.

d) Hypocrite

You say you want decentralization, but your customers think you're a hypocrite. Most uBlock Origin users immediately see the google fonts and JSDeliver and know you're using WordPress. Now you're trying to sell them on your expertise, but you're using amateur tools.

e) WordPress plugins need constant updates for security, but your setup has a unique combination of plugins. Therefore, as time passes by, the probability of a unique failure increases, which costs more money to solve.

Instead, ditch bloat WordPress, and go with Hugo.

Hugo is a static site generator. This means it generates static content locally on your computer, then you upload and serve a finished static thing. On the other hand, malware WordPress has a live database, and then dynamically creates that content on the site while your visitors wait for it to load.

With Hugo, you don't need any coding knowledge to easily and effortlessly format text, add pictures, and change the layout of your articles, on your local offline computer with the keyboard like an alpha male, as opposed to a worthless carpel tunnel bitch clicking a mouse in a remote browser using Big Tech malware.

Consider reaching out to Simplified Privacy's on-staff graphic designer to help you transition your content over to Hugo, to become a master of your domain. (DM me)

The mouse argument is hilarious 🤣. I would argue that mouse-support is crucial for non-tech people 🙈. This feels a bit like pitching VIM + Markdown as a Microsoft Word replacement 😅.

Checky sidenote: I can recommend my FOSS visual website editor Nitropage instead of Wordpress and Hugo 😇.

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Agreed. There's also #Publii and #BuhoCMS, a local frontend for Hugo.

Just saw that you're the developer of Nitropage! I'm interested if it can be easy to install and run locally?

I mean easy for moderately techsavvy people, people with contribuor or editor role in Wordpress.

Files can then be uploaded via FTP etc.

Running it locally (for test purposes) is relatively simple. The system needs an uptodate version of nodejs installed, then to start NP you go into its folder and run "npm run build && npm run start" (or just start, if its already built).

Hosting it locally is done with the same commands, but comes with the usual self-hosting challenges:

- How do you map the server port (3000) do your public ip?

- How do you add an ssl certificate for https?

The port forwarding setup depends on the local network setup. Some routers make it easy, others do not even allow it.

Personally I like https://caddyserver.com/ to automatically handle the ssl certificate.

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File uploads are currently just done directly over the Page Editor - definitely a process that needs to get better before v1.0 😅.

lol not terminal. markdown in a text editor.

if one uses the basic default stock hugo templates, then it's gonna be easier than WordPress imho. If they want a custom design, then yeah your solution with Nitro is likely going to be easier for most people. I wish you a lot of success with it.

Out of curiocity, what Hugo theme would you recommend the most? Ananke? Or does it depend widely on the use case?

How do you teach non-tech people (esp. on Windows) the publishing process? Generate locally and upload via Filezilla?

I guess Hugo kinda has the same issues moving people away from Wordpress, as I do with NP 🙈. No matter how good the alternatives, they just stick with Wordpress, because everybody uses it - democrazy works 🫠.

Thank you 🤗.

Hugo theme depends on the person's taste, that's art

Filezilla or other FTP clients would work for windows.

I hear you on getting people off it. It's a battle for anyone doing freedom tech. including nostr, monero, messengers, ect.

Keep in mind that the bulk of these WordPress sites don't just suck because it's WP, but the content