Pechente

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[–] Pechente@feddit.org -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The only time I use the power button is when there is an issue which has been like 4 times in 3 years maybe? I think people complaining about the power button location have never worked with macOS and are used to shittier standby in other operating systems.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

People really seemed to like this site I made a while ago and it performs well. But really any Wordpress site can be built well if with something like ACF and a custom coded theme.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

While there are quite a few agencies and solo devs that click their sites together using crap like Elementor and a bunch of no name plugins that could often be replaced by a single line of code, there are also people building building clean maintainable sites with it.

That said, I usually don’t pick it for my projects. Kirby CMS is a much more flexible alternative. For anything more complex there’s Laravel with Filament to build a nice admin panel.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 29 points 1 month ago (7 children)

That would be great but the reality is that client’s mindsets need to change. I tried to explain to a client that Wordpress is not a good fit for their complex web application and yet they didn’t wanna switch to anything else. People are way too worried about new tech and wanna stick with whatever they know, even if it causes massive problems.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 55 points 2 months ago

Yeah but it has also been 2 full years since he bought it

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 37 points 2 months ago

Probably the guy using some weird lemmy client that’s in alpha that triggered a swipe gesture without the user noticing it.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

If you’re brainwashed by your own propaganda, attacking both superpowers probably feels like a good idea

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 31 points 3 months ago

Short term profit is all they care about until this platform crashes down completely

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Coding is pretty much the only way to make a site that is both flexible and fast. If you wanna stay with page builders, I'd recommend something like webflow or framer but going with these closed systems is really not that amazing longterm. You're gonna sink a lot of money into a system that will almost certainly enshittify in the future.

If you're willing to pick up coding, try to make your own theme with something like Advanced Custom Fields in wordpress or switch to something like Kirby CMS which is more flexible out of the box than wordpress and has great docs.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I agree. I don't hate wordpress. It seems a bit dated by today's standards and bloated in some aspects but you can definitely make a solid, fast website with it. It's getting a bad reputation for its toxic plugin dev scene and crappy sites built using Elementor.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 61 points 4 months ago (14 children)

oh boy, the average wordpress site has like 30 plugins and the top bar is getting cluttered with so many plugin upsells that it fills the whole screen. There's a huge industry of people making wordpress sites who shouldn't.

It's quite frustrating to be asked as a dev to "fix" people's site as my usual response is "shut it off and redo it well".

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