I haven't used Wordpress in awhile. Is it really that bad?
@staticsafe @Are0h yeah it is
@Are0h old and bloated with huge vulnerability surface area; not helped by its popularity and a large plugin ecosystem that has paid little to no mind about performance and security
luckily it seems there's a trend against it, instead preferring ahead of time generated static sites instead
@Are0h Don't overload it with buggy plugins, and it works great.
@Are0h I think it's good. But a lot of people seem to have a problem with it for some reason.
And I'm like "Okay, so what funky, fly-by-night Ruby on Rails hodgepodge of Blockchain whatchamacallit should I switch to instead?"
in a previous day job i had while pursuing my studies, i had to maintain a few servers for a web design firm, which basically used wordpress + visual composer + a bunch of other plugins for their sites.
wordpress itself usually isn't the problem, but instead the plugins.
the whole security architecture, overall, though, is basically that bad.
i wound up writing a custom proxy which sat between PHP-FPM and nginx in order to catch and kill exploit attempts. basically mod_security on steroids.
@Are0h
Its fine. Most of it's problem stem from its popularity, such as less than perfect plugins, bad guides, etc.
If you secure it and don't rely on too many plugins it can be quite a reliable workhorse.
@Are0h If you don't install a ton of bad plugins or a manky bloated theme, it's fine. Certainly it's the best solution for someone like me; I need a website and blog to showcase my work for readers. With Wordfence (security plugin, robust free option) it's reasonably secure. I've been using it for almost a decade now, and it's grown quite well.
@Are0h As someone who switched from the stupendously-obscure Monaural Jerk well over a decade ago to Wordpress... it's okay? As others have said, as long as you choose plugins carefully and don't go hog-wild with 'em, you've got a fairly good base platform to work with. I ran a webcomic on it for four years, my main site's been on it for [redacted] years... *shrug*
@Are0h not really honestly? just don’t bog it down with 5,000 plugins and you’ll be good.
@Are0h no, it really isn't