Comments on: Why WordPress sucks (a bit)

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:37:19 +0000

There is something illusive about “free” software. It should be something that anyone with basic technical knowledge can download, install, customize, and use. I haven’t felt too much trouble customizing WordPress, but then again, I am a professional web developer. The flipside of this complaint is among companies who want a blog but think that if they choose something like WordPress, it should be very cheap or totally free. Well, the fact is that whether the software is free or not, you still have to pay some expert to make it work for you. That’s the way every technology is. Sorry. If they made cars free, mechanics would make a lot more money.

By: Shauky

Shauky — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:04:48 +0000

Hmmm… I dont know about customization, but all things considered, developing a high maintenance ‘blog’, shouldn’t be a “grown mans job” regardless of what CMS he’s using. Everything on the web is a bad joke programming languages non-withstanding. Still, does a normal person actually ‘want’ to look at all the bells and whistles?
That being said I love the hardworking techie tailors of today, most of my friends are techies, and they are generally good-natured, beautiful minded people. Does WordPress Suck? I honestly wanted to find out. Thats why I googled the question. A lot of people think so. If I was a more technical person, I would be obliged to agree with ‘some’ of them. That being said, I love this post, well said – the notion that the web is going to a constructive well-oiled place, a haven for techies and noobs alike. Where we could be doing ‘more important’ things than developing templates. Wouldn’t that be a sight to see. http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/05/wordpress-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter/

By: Steven Howell

Steven Howell — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:02:24 +0000

I have to agree with a majority of the posts in here. WordPress is discouragingly difficult to customize. Sure, there’s a lot I don’t understand, but I generally have a hard time understanding code that isn’t written by me.

But even then, I could tell that a lot of the code is disorganized. I’ve spent most of tonight trying to create my own template. I got about 70% of the way there, but I’m starting to realize it’s not worth the effort, and I’m running into difficulties that are making me pull my hair out!

I’m done. Time to find something easier and better.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:59:33 +0000

WordPress does indeed suck!!

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:15:03 +0000

I can’t believe there isn’t a cms out there that allows someone to design a fully functional site with all the bells and whistles, and not have to know a bit of code to do it. It boggles my mind this hasn’t been created yet.

The reason why it hasn’t been done is the same one that WordPress isn’t as bad as you imply – creating general purpose web software is hard, especially on a non-budget. What you think of as simple tasks really aren’t: they involved making different technologies work together smoothly across a wide variety of environments.

WordPress is free, and it asks a bit of patience and study from its users. But I get the feeling you’d be moaning about it even if it came with a cash giveaway attached.

By: dk

dk — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:52:43 +0000

wordpress is the stupidest piece of crap I’ve ever worked with. I’ve been able to learn 3d animation software, but I can’t figure out how to do the simplest of tasks with wordpress. Everything about it is unnecessarily unorganized and confusing.

Sh#t..even adding a freaking image with a border and padding didn’t work as it should. I can say with a fact that WORDPRESS SUCKS.

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:55:02 +0000

I thought that WordPress would be wonderful and soooo easy. Wrong. I had set up my blogger page in not time at all and in a few days had already customized it totaly. I don’t do html or whatever and I still managed.
I loaded up my blogger page to WordPress and that is all I have been able to do. I have bought a book, scoured websites and read help forums and posted questions to no avail. I can’t get WordPress to do anything. I am not dumb but I can’t do this. I give up.

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:47:03 +0000

Take it as a hint that the ante is about to up itself one or two notches in the very immediate future.

Thank god for wordpress, joomla and the other duct tape solutions out there which have permeated the market and given us “techies” a chance to move ahead…

WordPress creates jobs for us… lets take this as an opportunity to make machines which manufacture suits…

Let the bloggers waste their time hand stitching patches in their installations for the next five years to come.

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:00:29 +0000

The backup/restore problem you mention is almost certainly down to issues with whatever tools you use with MySQL. A lot of DB software doesn’t handle UTF strings correctly. I have had exactly the same problem with Drupal, for example.

Often it’s the hosting to blame, either for not having the mbstring extension installed or for providing only an old version of phpmyadmin. If you are backing up a DB where there’s multi-byte characters in the data, you need to pay attention to exactly how you do so, and then again when you restore it. I’ve found SQLyog to be one of the best programs in this respect. Some DB programs I’ve tried also claim UTF compatibility but fail in the event, so you need to test them for yourself.

By: Caballito

Caballito — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:00:25 +0000

Every updgrade in WordPress is a nightmare,, thing don’t work anymore, templates are broken.. and if you work with foreign characters such as íñê, etc.,, backup and restore is a pain in the ass and I’m not mentioning the lack of translations. So, yes, wordpress sucks!