“My website guy said WordPress was going to be easy.”
He lied.
Sorry.
I’ve been building custom websites with WordPress for over 10 years and I haven’t used the word “easy” to describe it yet. It’s confusing, unfriendly, needlessly complex, and changes on a near-monthly basis.
Yet it powers over 40% of all the websites on the internet. It’s popular, robust, scalable, extendable, widely supported, and loved by search engines. The White House uses WordPress. So does Vogue. NASA too. Even Microsoft News uses it.
WordPress is marvelous if you want somebody else to design, build, and manage your website. And that’s what most people serious about their business do. But if you want to do it yourself, don’t get corralled into a website platform you can’t manage.
If you do, you haven’t solved a problem — you’ve created one.
Sources
- Kinsta
- Statista
- WordPress
