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I'm wanting to make the switch to wordpress for my front end mainly for plugins. Right now one of the things im thinking of moving is pretty much static html but I offer the page in a few languages since the service is used in a few geos. This was all fine and good when it was only 2 languages and I did all the manual onpage seo (to the best of my ability) as well as url structure but scaling this way is obviously not the way to go. Im hoping to take advantage of multi language plugins to better scale this.
Overall, does the quality of the sisters is up to standard?
Updating plugins perhaps can't be called suicidal, but could be easily qualified as an attempt.
There are plugins, that don't affect much, but when it comes to theme update or WooCommerce (along if it's extensions), I often find it easier to read security bulletins and manually change lines of code needed, than naively hit update button and regret a lot after.
It's very nice, but shouldn't PHP 8.* official support be the priority?
Quite a newbie to WordPress here: what caching solution do you recommend? Or is it a better solution to use static site converter plugin? How about dedicated headless WordPress solutions, what are your thoughts on this?
Static site has its pros and cons. Do you use any dynamic stuff (comments, shopping carts etc)? If not, might go with static.
LiteSpeed cache (my site link) is good if your server supports it (i.e. if it is a LiteSpeed server).
If not, WP Super Cache (same
) is OK of all the free options, and WP Rocket if you have the money.
While built for a 'different' type of site in mind, If you need speed, check out Grav CMS.
I do use WP because I have to, not because I want to, but Grav is a true pleasure.
Free HeadLess option - https://frontity.org/
Develop WP blog/website on your PC or cheap shared hosting
and deploy on Vercel or similar service.
Refer this - https://css-tricks.com/creating-headless-wordpress-site-with-frontity/
If you have cheap VPS, use EasyEngine that comes with solid caching.
With this below command, you are ready to go with smooth sailing Wordpress
ee site create domainname.com --type=wp --ssl=le --cache
Refer this for installing EasyEngine - https://easyengine.io/
Shared webhosts with LiteSpeed are not bad either.
Some reliable shared webhosts(Litespeed+ WP) -
HawkHost, MDDHosting, ChemiCloud, FastComet, ExonHost.
All these webhosts offer dead cheap webhosting starting from 15-35 USD a year in black friday and new year deals.
There is one great solution by Cloudflare - APO which costs 5 USD a month and it caches a full copy of webpage near to your audience - check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/
Free alternative which works the way Cloudflare APO works - check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cloudflare-page-cache/
Good points. Though, I wish to add that in my experience, Cloudflare WP APO is greatly inferior to LiteSpeed. In other words, even if the APO were free, I'd still opt for LiteSpeed. In more detail:
https://io.bikegremlin.com/27367/cloudflare-pro-wordpress-apo-review/
I prefer to code all my pages from scratch. I've been doing it since 1997 and get much enjoyment from it. I use PHP conditional includes a lot. If you know how to code and organise things in a certain way I'm not sure creating pages with Wordpress is any quicker.
I find there's no pleasure in working with Wordpress. When I do, I tend to use one of the bare bones themes and put in my own code. Having worked in publishing many themes are terrible in terms of text layout and spacing or they look good then you hit a brick wall with something you want to do.
I had use this Frontity. It was good then and quite promising.
but now.. their site shows a banner notification:
Frontity Framework is not under active development anymore. If you are interested in becoming a maintainer, please get in touch.WordPress isn't slow when properly configuring image optimization (compress, optimize size & maybe a CDN if visitors are spread around the globe), page caching (does wonders) and object caching (helps the front-end a bit, but mostly, makes wp-admin fly).
The above combination is really hard to get slow.
agree! I use docket-cache, litespeed cache, wp-admin cache, wp my sql table indexing, css, js, html minification and gzip (not on fly, but pre-configured), long expire cache, and on top of that cloudflare cache plus lazy load of images on view-port only (this allows to make request to image file only if required by user)
WordPress is amazing, people can headstart creating $$$content instead of learning html, CSS and how things work at backend.
Slowly you'll learn a bit of everything and how to make wordpress fly no matter the size and traffic.