Comments on: Why WordPress sucks (a bit)

By: james

james — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:07:00 +0000

word press for me as some one whos not overly html knowledgable, but i know how to do some basic pages in html , and php or what ever the hell mysql is and why i need it, is a useless pile of cow dung , its not intuitive its messy and has way to many things to look at all at once.

and so i went to blogger. found it intuitive easy to use ,fast, above all way better for the average blogger.

wordpress is just a horrible , down right mess and the temlates are needlessly complex.

editing a blogger template is as easy as clicking edit /html. and save or preveiw before saving, all at simple point and click options.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:53:20 +0000

This is crazy. WordPress is so conterintuitive, I want to pull my hair out. I know enough html to do a simple webpage, but with wordpress you are always asking yourself, how in the world can I get this catagory to link to this page or make the menu work. It is poorly written for the average blogger. I sure hope it’s as great at seo as people say, if not I have wasted my time.

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:37:32 +0000

Michael, that wasn’t the intended message of this posting. There are considerable advantages in using a software platform such as WordPress over the DnD tools. It might take a few days to put together a site, but in the longer term WordPress will generally save a lot more time and trouble, and offer possibilities that these supposedly simple tools do not.

From experience I would guess that your “beautiful” websites might look rotten and load slowly on mobile devices. Try solving that problem using Drag and Drop!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:14:09 +0000

This has been very informative. I’ve experimented with many “drag and drop” website builders. I recently tried Drupal and WordPress and discovered that they are laborious, archaic, confusing, boring and unproductive. I’m glad to see the views posted here, I’ll keep on with the drag and drops, I can make a beautiful website in a day.

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.