Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.
The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.
I’ve been giving static site generators a go, specifically Hugo. Webdevs have always treated static sites as unserious, but there’s plenty of sites out there where it’d be ideal. An awful lot of those sites are currently on WordPress.
Does your local mechanics shop need a dynamic site? No. Local restaurant that points you to an external site for online ordering? No. Little gift shop selling locally produced goods? If they don’t intend to sell online, then no. A manufacturer with product pages that have a “where to buy” button that sends you to their sales partner in your country? Nope.
How many CPU cycles are wasted on these sites that could be nothing more than reading a file and streaming it back to the client?
This is a very good point. The other issue is security. The little mechanic shop that has no dynamic content, technically should be static pages, so when it’s left alone and not updated for 3 years it doesn’t get hacked by some WordPress vulnerability.
The point of free software is that it doesn’t have owners and you (individually or collectively) can just create an “alternative” yourself by forking it if you disagree with anything its maintainers do.
bring back greymatter cowards.
(but for real, moveable type is probably the closest alternative)
The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.
Good. Maybe people still can draw conclusions from the barrage of security holes in plugins (of which anything other than a blog had way too much and shouldn’t have used a blogging engine from start).
It’s open source. The alternative, if project governance actually starts making problems for end users is that someone will fork it. Cloning the plugin/theme repository makes that a bit more hassle, but it’s entirely doable.
That’s not to say there’s no room for more CMS projects. Wordpress is a little clunky, and variety is good.
Anything community produced with a tool to transfer over WP sites would do pretty well at the moment.
WordPress does provide a rest API, so you can do headless WordPress. It’s essentially your content/data in JSON. From that point, you can do whatever.
The issue is you still need a CMS, or use WordPress.
One of the big selling points of Wordpress has been customization, so it’s unlikely you’ll be able to directly transfer anything more than the raw post. Any plugins you were relying on will not exist.
Man baby and WordPress.com CEO apparently forced this on the open-source community.
Sorry, i’m already partial to banana-mascarpone pizza.
Tell me more, I’m a glutton for punishment.
Afraid you have to look elsewhere, this is a sweet-salty treat. Use some mild cheese, like Sprintz.
I’m genuinely curious, can’t find many banana pizza recipes that aren’t smeared with nutella as well. I assume this is a white pizza base since you mention mascarpone? Then banana topping with a sprinkle of grated hard cheese?
White pizza base woul maybe work too (up for testing) but i just use less tomato. Cutting banana lengthwise, blotches of mascarpone over it and the rest of the pizza. Olives around, olive oil and mild grated hard cheese and pepper & salt over all.
But Nutella, wth?
Ooh, that is salty! Will give it a try next time the family isn’t around to turn up their noses at my kitchen experiments.
Yeah, Nutella… I think it was the banana+pizza search query that sent me into crêpe-adjacent dessert territory.
Billionaire power is corrosive to maturity; you can make everyone do what you want, so why find common ground or compromise when you can just throw a shitfit and demand that people agree that pineapple is tasty?
Just think, they could’ve spent this energy making WordPress not suck for Kubernetes deployments instead, but that’s fine, we can settle for being told what to think and feel instead.
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I looked at that, and thought “ha, that is a funny and obviously fake screenshot of a headline, created to ridicule photomatt for being petty in his fight with his company’s biggest competitor”.
Then, after closing this tab I did a double take and thought: maybe it’s actually real?
And, it turns out, yeah, he really actually did that (after a court injunction required them to remove the checkbox which required users to pledge that they were “not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise”):
😂
he's not wrong, though
😂🙏🏻 I love my Pizza Hawaii 🥰
Canada’s best invention since the telephone
Is this real?
If only there was some way to find out. I guess we’ll never know.
Thanks 🙏
