I’r going to be talking about my reasons why you shouldn’t use WordPress um okay, so I’m going to backtrack ever so slightly from that and the first reason is a bit of a soft touch one. But I think, when you’re going into me a web developer designer for the first time, you should kind of leave it open to them to to be able to give themselves the opportunity to pitch whatever CMS platform which they use and the reason behind that is because They’ve probably built hundreds of websites over their time as a web developer, and they will know best what solution matches up with the problems that your business is facing.
So if you just march straight into the room and tell them that you want a WordPress website, you might be shooting your foot, because that might not be the best solution for you. It might just be that you need to give that to developer the opportunity to maybe suggest some alternative solutions to you which might work better for your business. At the end of the day, this game is about making money being are not being an entrepreneur, and so you want a website which is going to reflect your business well, whether regardless of whether that’s built on WordPress or whatever it’s going to be.
So that’s just my caveat to start off with um, so my first reason why you shouldn’t choose WordPress is because it’s just a supercharged blogging platform. Basically, it was, it was only ever designed as a blog and then over the years and the plugins there are more and more plugins got built for it all of a sudden. Now it’s turned into this great big CMS platform that everybody talks about. Ultimately, it’s not an enterprise level CMS platform.
So if your business, if your bit, if you’re serious about your business – and you know that it’s going to scale, ok WordPress has its place in terms of solving some time and cost issues which small businesses might have. But if you’re serious about your business and you think it’s going to get scale, then I would suggest choosing an enterprise level. Cms platform WordPress does work to a certain point, but it lacks a lot of inherent functionality which I feel as CMS platform should have, and most of that is in terms of the front-end quality and the user.
Experience that your customers are going to get when they look at a website. In my opinion, a CMS platform should be inherently secure, yet WordPress you have to until install at least two plugins in order to make sure that it is secure, but that’s just a joke. I mean that that that says that some WordPress isn’t a serious CMS platform, especially if you’re serious about your business, and the same goes for if you actually, if you want to create an a high-performing website where the page is low, you know virtually instantly again.
You’ve got up and install a whole series of plugins in order to make that happen, and even then the plugins don’t always talk to one another, and you can I’ve seen WordPress websites they’ve got all of the caching turned on all of the security patches turned on. Yet when somebody tries to switch on a CDN and content distribution network which turbo charges any website and I’ve seen the CDN break that the WordPress website and which is not good for any any business, because it’s just a poor user experience, you could lose customers over Something like this so take it seriously um.
The second reason is there are thousands of plugins out there and for WordPress many of them are built by very good programmers. Those I don’t have a problem with, but some of them are going to be developed by programmers who have very bad habits now. Do you want a website built on WordPress with a plug-in installed by somebody with bad programming habits, because the likelihood is that you install that plug-in it’s going to broke, break the rest of your website and, if you’re, not a developer, you’re not going to be able To fix it, what this tends to mean is that those plugins probably contain lots of errors, poor site functionality, they don’t meet standards, compliance all of these things have an important and when it comes to search engine optimization.
Ultimately, what does Google think of your website and what your customers think of your website if it’s not standards compliant if it’s not accessible, if it’s not responsive, Google is going to mark your website down. Do you really want that with your website and and I’ve seen so many I’d say no to 9 % the websites out there WordPress websites specifically have all of these issues with them standard compliance, accessibility, responsiveness, look it up! You can’t always guarantee as well.
WordPress developers build their sites to a high standard, so you know okay, so you may have eventually be handing your website over to a developer, but those plugins that you’ve installed on there. Are they actually any good? Are you going to end up spending twice or three times the amount of money having those problems fixed and, and it might be, that those plugins are just a bit buggy and could probably be fixed, but those poor programmers may not be commenting their code.
So you don’t you’ve got no idea what’s actually going on, and the third reason is that my friend’s friend told me that WordPress is the best thing since sliced bread – and I built my website myself using WordPress a lot of people, don’t realize when they’re asking for WordPress there are alternatives out there and they get very. You know it’s very it’s funnel vision. WordPress is all they want. If you want to build a relationship with your your web designer, perhaps let them suggest a platform, especially if you’ve got your very specific about what outcomes you want out of this.
If you want your website to be highly optimized for Google to be quick loading load on mobile devices without any problems, then maybe you want to consider some of the alternatives to to WordPress or even having a custom CMS platform built for your website. And and finally, I think if you just focus purely solely on having a wordpress site, then there are lots of WordPress developers out there. I suggest you go and ask somebody who actually special specializes purely in WordPress websites, because they will understand how the plugins work and which plugins are going to be best suited to your website.
And I I know a couple of brilliant WordPress developers and whenever I get asked for a WordPress website, I’ve always got a couple of great guys who I know to recommend and refer work to, because when I speak to customers about their about optimizing their website. For from a performance perspective, especially, I know the two guys who I use to build WordPress websites know how to make press work for them in that sense, so for God, I’ve got that off my plate.
That was quite has been kind of in there for a little one. I just have to get it out there, but don’t get me wrong as well. I know that WordPress has its place and it there’s a lot of great things that you can do with WordPress. There are thousands of plugins out there, and so, if you want a cheap website set up quickly that you can install ecommerce plugins onto with a customizable and theme, then it’s the perfect platform for a small business.
But don’t forget if you’re going to go enterprise and scale your business, then maybe look for something else, or look for a very special specialized, WordPress and developer. So, to summarize my key points why I don’t like WordPress and it starts that life is just a blogging platform. There are lots of plugins, but a lot of them might be booked by very unreliable programmers and there are alternatives out there to WordPress.
And finally, just reiterate, you know, find someone who specializes in WordPress sites specifically and if you can’t be swayed away from WordPress. So thanks once again for reading the article, I hope you found some of the tips helpful and if you’ve got any questions, then please do leave some comments and boxes below the article. If you want to be informed about any future articles which I upload, then please click here to subscribe and then finally, if you haven’t already head on over to Amazon using this button, just here to buy the book online business startup thanks for reading, I’m Robin Waite
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