Eugen RochkoMy mom asked me to help her with a problem with her WordPress (.com) site, and oh boy. It's been a while since I've seen a UI that frustrating. The new theme editor is a sluggish nightmare. It took me by surprise too, was originally trying to troubleshoot an issue with her original theme, switched to another, suddenly the theme editor is completely different, previous theme nowhere to be found.
Arcticulate@Gargron@mastodon.social Yep, thatβs the whole reason Ghost was created as an alternative, right? I have never seen any web UI more user-unfriendly than WordPress. It only thrives because itβs the standard. Itβs popular because of its popularity.
s1fly@Gargron@mastodon.social another fan of Ghost here, having used Wordpress a lot. Can highly recommend @synapsmedia@www.synapsmedia.com if you need a good host.
Oliver Gassner :mastodon:@Gargron@mastodon.social wp was a great way to simply publish. Now it is the ultimate "model railway" as I call it.
Flaming Cheeto@Gargron@mastodon.social pain points -> products
Jer Clarke@Gargron@mastodon.social The Full Site Editor is a big switch that WP has been making for years, but got real intense recently.
I see it as a system for building extremely dynamic sites without code, with a corresponding increase in complexity for authors and developers. CSS and layouts have become way more complicated, and WP has become more complex to match.
Itβs a shame so many are alienated from it.
I suggest using the latest default theme (Twenty Twenty-Five) and learning the system.
Al & Val's Modern Homesteading@Gargron@mastodon.social Years ago, I began looking for something to make designing websites for clients easier. I looked at WP, Drupal, Joomla and others. Joomla was my pick, and it's been a dream ever since. I've contributed some content to the project and have created just about every kind of site you could imagine, from single page sites to huge enterprise sized sites. From pre V1 to today's 6.01, it's been a great ride so far.
Mega βByteβ Matt :clippy:@Gargron@mastodon.social sounds like you might have installed a theme with its own editor. I hate those (elementor/divi/etc), the default Wordpress one is fine and good for developers, but those third party ones try to upsell and ruin the whole ecosystem.
Wordpress dot com also has its own host of issues as it relates to the open source (and wonderful imo) Wordpress dot org. Not to mention Mullenwegβs foray into madness these past years.
Milan Ε abiΔ@Gargron@mastodon.social Thatβs why I moved to Ghost and never looked back.
nosh :fosstodon: (ΚβΏΚ)@Gargron@mastodon.social I thought WordPress is a no go now, after all the legal dramas surrounding it.
Hobson Lane@Gargron@mastodon.social
Claude code converted my wordpress site to a pelican-generated site (with all content in markdown) and deployed it to a subdomain on gitlab.io But YMMV if there's not a matching FOSS Pelican theme. I still need to swap out some css colors and remove redundant markdown titles to fix mine, but should be easy peasy after that: https://tangibleai.com -> pelican.tangibleai.com