WP falling WWB growing

[wwonderfull]

Was watching some videos of some developers in YT and found an important news about WP.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/wp-en ... mullenweg/

WP Engine, a web hosting service, has filed a lawsuit against Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, and his company Automattic. The lawsuit revolves around alleged unfair business practices and competition issues. This legal battle could potentially affect users by causing service disruptions, access issues to plugins and themes, and possibly higher costs.

In conclusion that means wp users may soon face unexpected problems sooner or later so please suggest more people to join WYSIWYG web builder community.

[jerryco]

It's crazy amazing how long webhosts have allowed WordPress with it's slowness and vulnerabilities for granted. I hope that more people find their way to WWB altough it will probably have to be the professionals because of the learning curve that WordPress lacks.

[wwonderfull]

It's crazy amazing how long webhosts have allowed WordPress with it's slowness and vulnerabilities for granted. I hope that more people find their way to WWB altough it will probably have to be the professionals because of the learning curve that WordPress lacks.

The information is taken from google trends latest report dated to this post


Indeed, wp was something which went viral because of their paid marketing and the social media hype but even that could not stop it from falling. It fell such that if we see the graph which I got from googles, it shows WP in 2024 is in a position which it was back in 2007. From it's peak which was 2014 it had a major decline yet people use it in the name of clients who have no idea their website can get hacked which is the number 1 issue of WordPress websites according to even HOSTINGER , ASTRA.

[johnsmith0251]

nice post @wwonderfull!

Was watching some videos of some developers in YT and found an important news about WP.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/wp-en ... mullenweg/

WP Engine, a web hosting service, has filed a lawsuit against Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, and his company Automattic. The lawsuit revolves around alleged unfair business practices and competition issues. This legal battle could potentially affect users by causing service disruptions, access issues to plugins and themes, and possibly higher costs.

In conclusion that means wp users may soon face unexpected problems sooner or later so please suggest more people to join WYSIWYG web builder community.

[alan_sh]

Back in 2017/8, we (my scout county) went to a web site provider for a web site. For a fee of around £1,000 they gave us a wordpress site - around 10,000 files which we then had to maintain. It was fairly slow and not easy to modify. Then, the Scouts modified their logo and I asked the provider to change it for us. That was another large fee because it was in one of their templates which they didn't give us (and didn't tell us about). At that point, I had had enough and redid theirs (first in WebPlus to get something out and then WWB which I was still learning) - went from 10,000 files to about 300 (most of which were pictures) and much much faster.

So, I am very happy with WWB.

Alan

[johnsmith0251]

That's funny! I'm a previous webplus user too! > they ended the program when mobile responsiveness was more than just one desktop and one mobile version. RIP lol

Unless your @pablo ... i don't think its possible to know this program 100% haha

Back in 2017/8, we (my scout county) went to a web site provider for a web site. For a fee of around £1,000 they gave us a wordpress site - around 10,000 files which we then had to maintain. It was fairly slow and not easy to modify. Then, the Scouts modified their logo and I asked the provider to change it for us. That was another large fee because it was in one of their templates which they didn't give us (and didn't tell us about). At that point, I had had enough and redid theirs (first in WebPlus to get something out and then WWB which I was still learning) - went from 10,000 files to about 300 (most of which were pictures) and much much faster.

So, I am very happy with WWB.

Alan

[AliGW]

That's funny! I'm a previous webplus user too! > they ended the program when mobile responsiveness was more than just one desktop and one mobile version. RIP lol

Me, too. I used WebPlus for years. The last site I built for a client using it was maintained until 2021, when I retired and handed it over to a different developer. I was also a beta tester for Serif, so beta tested every version of it. Responsiveness was indeed an issue: it would have required rewriting the program code from the ground up, and they had lost their top web developer (he'd been head hunted by another firm). Around that time, the whole shift to the Affinity range was underway, and Serif made a conscious decision NOT to create a website builder as part of the new suite. Some of us were very sad about that - had they chosen to do so, it could easily have rivalled WWB, but it wasn't to be: Serif was and still is a very small firm with a relatively small number of developers, whose speciality is in graphic design. It is what it is. I still use PagePlus after all these years.

However, I now need to develop my own site and make it responsive, so I have just bought WWB and I'll be developing my site using it. I managed to publish a holding page within 24 hours of installing the software - there's going to be a learning curve, but at the moment, it doesn't look too steep.

[bkjohns]

Same here - WebPlus and all the other legacy Serif programs (most of which I still use). The responsive world just didn't work that well with WP. I had toyed with earlier versions of WWB but once the whole responsive side of WWB came along (was it version 10 or 11?) I made the switch and never looked back. The learning curve was there but manageable and once you get your head around the logic of it all it seems second nature. I admit I haven't even scratched the surface of all WWB can do but it does what I need and that it the bottom line of any software as far as I'm concerned.

[johnsmith0251]

There is definitely a learning curve. However, there is one significant time saver that I appreciate the most. When using a layout grid, simple future edits rarely require modifications to the breakpoints. At least for me