I've been speaking to numerous web developers, agencies, digital marketers recently on the platform they think is best for building websites. They were all unanimous in their answer: Wordpress According to them, it is the most efficient way (unless their clients want complex configurations). Be it themes, plugins or third-party integrations, Wordpress's enormous user base means that there will constantly be developments & upgrades to fill gaps & meet users' requirements. There will definitely be debates with regard to the SEO aspect. What do you guys think?
Sure. So i started building this website dedicated to SEO tips etc. I also have a section for for IBO's to create their own business profile to professionlly colaborate with others. I have an SEO tool that indicates I have over 30 duplicate title tags and the same for missing description meta's. Wordpress does not allow me to edit these tags for the pages, which is my login pages for my site. Every time I try the looped url, it brings me back to the login again to relogin. Although, if i use the direct link i can login fine. So these duplicate title tags on my SEO tool keep adding on every time i try logging in with those particular url's. I'm on my phone now, perhaps later I can use my pc and be more descriptive. I despise texting paragraphs with a touch screen keyboard.
I agree 100%, with a few exceptions! The security of wordpress is a NIGHTMARE...also, if your site gets too big, wordpress develops MAJOR SQL issues and slows down
No doubt. There should be best practices when uploading files/image or creating pages/posts. I recently handled a client's website which contains images that are >3,000 px in dimensions.
Well I would say yes for people who don't know anything about building websites at all then yes wordpress is pretty straight forward. But for a person like me whose college degree was graphic design I can pretty much build a website from scratch and code the whole thing in pretty much no time so I don't really use wordpress personally but I have tried it when I was first starting out and it's pretty nice I also like a lot of the themes they have available.
That's true. There are definitely benefits to code from scratch. However, I think Wordpress is easier for our clients to handle as they are not proficient in coding. For e.g. I think it is very tedious for your client to create a HTML page whenever they want to create a new blog post. Just my 2 cents.
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With me the problem is I have a bit of an ocd thing when it comes to the layouts so when I use wordpress templates I always find myself removing or changing at least 1 thing around just to get it to my liking. The problem is figuring out which part of the code to remove from where and if you remove the wrong code from the template (which I have done before) then it could mess up your whole site like it did for me one time and I got this internal 500 server error and I ended up with all that work I did having to start all over. But I completely agree. For someone who is not good with code who doesn't know much about that this is simple and easy I could say it works great I've seen some pretty impressive sites made by people who don't know much about computers using wordpress.
I totally get you!!! I want things to be EXACTLY the way I want it, and it's hard to achieve that with Wordpress at times. Either get a developer (cheap rate), or if you bought a template, get the support to help with the code!