--- title: "Give WordPress a try - it's not as bad as you think" url: https://daily.dev/posts/give-wordpress-a-try---it-s-not-as-bad-as-you-think-byfcirlnu source_url: https://maciekpalmowski.dev/blog/give-wordpress-a-try-its-not-as-bad-as-you-think/ type: article source: "Community Picks" author: "Maciek Palmowski" published: 2024-06-06T09:51:50.743Z updated: 2024-08-23T16:01:53.326Z tags: ["webdev", "performance", "wordpress", "php", "cms"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 41 comments: 14 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Give WordPress a try - it's not as bad as you think **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@palmiak](https://daily.dev/palmiak) · 8 min read · 41 upvotes · 14 comments ## Summary WordPress is the most popular CMS with a dominant market share. It has evolved over the years, debunking common stereotypes. Despite its reputation, it is a flexible and secure CMS. Changes include the introduction of the Block Editor (Gutenberg), Full Site Editing, REST and GraphQL APIs, WP-CLI, WordPress Playground, 1-click and auto-updates, performance improvements, modern PHP options, templating engines, and the WordPress Performance Team. Building a WordPress website can be done with no-code/low-code, block themes, modern PHP, headless approach, or the legacy way. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dimi3ryi** · 2 upvotes > Again... > This topic somehow becomes a hot discussion every once in a while. > And every time it consists of the same arguments with different approaches to explain them. > I have been working a lot with devs who had/still have WP sites under their care. And every time it is the same thing: > The more technical expertise you have => the more frustrated and angry with WP you are > > The more demanding a client with some specific custom logic => the more issues you have daily > > WP has its uses. Nobody questions that. But there's at least one solution for each domain (e.g. e-commerce, fintech,... **@joshpennington** · 2 upvotes > Agree to disagree. Recently been doing some work in there after not touching it for several years and they somehow made it worse. **@nonwiz** · 1 upvotes > I don't actually hate wordpress, just some of my experiences with it, but it's cool to see sth like: https://developer.wordpress.com/studio/ that you can develop and test things locally easily. Heck, now you can even do demo-site deploy that is valid for a week for free also. **@macjendr** · 1 upvotes > Good to know that Bedrock from roots.io is still standing strong <3 > > I didn't make any Wordpress work for a long time, but I couldn't imagine installing it 'as is' without Bedrock and a good security plugin like the one from iThemes (don't know how it's holding up these days though). Vanilla WP looked dirty without some proper "app layer", that Bedrock provides. **@tan** · 0 upvotes > WP is great as headless. All the good editing experiences without the legacy. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#cms](https://daily.dev/tags/cms) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/give-wordpress-a-try---it-s-not-as-bad-as-you-think-byfcirlnu)