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)

Some good points but calling things malware that aren't technically malware (even if they're privacy invasive) detracts from your argument.

The real issue if, I understood correctly, appears to be local SSG vs online hosted CMS, right?

The solution for most people I think can be that SSGs and similar tools are made easier to use, like WordPress.

I like projects like #Publii and #BuhoCMS aim to do this butthety need adoption and support.

What about for ecommerce, is there a better #FOSS alternative to #Wordpress + #Woocommerce do you think?

Thanks.

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I consider WordPress malware because it's doing all of these calls to each plugin creator and the various big tech participants, but in a way that slows your VPS machine. So it's not serving you or the visitor, it's serving the software creator to benefit them. They want to monetize your data and are willing to hurt you to do so.

In fact, even the "simplystatic" plugin for WordPress had 20+ javascript calls on the final product. So they could not even just display the text and pics

Local hosting means it works without internet using "hugo server" where you go to "localhost" in a browser

As far as woocommerce, it depends on how much data you're looking to collect from the customer. If you're okay with fields for email, name, address then Opencart, Abantecart, or one of the other similar ones in that family, that hook up to BTCPay or fiat processors.