Build with WordPress, or Build a WebSite from Scratch? ... And YOGA!

Very helpful thank you

I've been doing yoga for 6 years brotha. Best decision I ever made. It literally 100% healed every injury I've ever had, and let me tell you I've had a lot of injuries.

YOGA?

What is that framework about?

I couldn't help but disagree. WordPress is a pre cloud environment with no direct support for HA deployments due to the fact the plug-in and configuration data is stored in the local file system so you can't have a systems stateless node in the HA environment and manage the CMS as you would in a monolithic topography. Several cloud systems have proposed solutions for this and there's even companies that love out of it but it's not straight forward so yes, if you plan to grow your website make sure you hire the right platform, not only the right hosting or you will be feeling growth pains.

Edit, data and configuration is stored in the local filesystem as well as in the database, wherever you put that.

nice. Since I'm trying to become a software engineer I feel that learning Wordpress is one of those shortcuts I don't want to take. I would only build with Wordpress if I knew I wasn't gonna learn anything new for the given task to save time. But I question this philosophy all the time I can't lie.

My philosophy is: do what you want, but be sure first you can do it!

You should eat your carbs...that's where energy comes from and its not healthy to eat so much meat

Thanks a lot Stefan, for the info...and for the need to find some ribs...right now :)

I really hated using WordPress because of the overwhelming number of options when choosing themes and plugins, and not ALL themes and plugins work well together so you have to mix and match so damn much. It's like Legos. I never liked legos even as a child lol. I like it better when I have clear maps in my mind about how to go through large projects, and that never happened with WP so far. I always feel lost because there's just too much to think about. It's messy in my head.
I never created a website from scratch though since I don't have good knowledge about back-end development yet (still strengthening my front-end skills before going there), so idk maybe after I try that I'll see WordPress as a blessing. One thing though: When I did my internship at a small web design company a few months back, NONE of the developers (front, back, and full stack) liked WP. I swear, all of them just outright told me they despised it and that I should learn real development before jumping on the WP bandwagon so they never gave me tasks involving WP (except towards the end, and they were just to make me familiar with it), but they just do it because they need to make websites quickly for clients. An experienced user can make a full website ready in just a day or two using WordPress, so they do it because they found that it makes the most sense cost/profit wise.

Been thinking of getting back into ashtanga yoga again. Thanks for the inspiration.

Disagree! I had fifteen websites, mostly all WordPress sites, I had trouble with all my WordPress sites, big trouble, my two html websites purred along like a kittens, no problems. I'm talking about real experience here, not theoretical BS. Who wants to worry about all these updates. Did you ever hear of the white screen of death? Well I have seen it many times and much more. Do yourself a favor and run from WordPress.

This is bad advise! For most websites WordPress creates more problems that it solves - just like any other "one size fits all" CMS - and the themes are full of bugs, and bloated beyond belief. I never use WordPress for my own websites.

Ur a badass guy

Right on time for me. I'm pondering these same things.

Normally when I learn new things I get this WOW feeling like this is cool and I get inspired by the capabilities a framework and what it can do. AngularJS 1.0 is one of them and BootStrap is also cool.
When it comes to WordPress I really didn't get it like that. Mostly irritation like that you can't use for example TinyMCE and follow the normal instructions to implement it because Wordpress has its own way of PHP and javascript event chain that you are limited to. So you're forced to use the built-in TinyMCE in WordPress which I hated.
So if you want functionality you will waste loads of time finding a plugin that does what you want it to do. Sometimes the plugin uses its own design and you have to figure out how to make it look like you want it to look. And if you can't find the plugin you can go halfway for a plugin that does almost what you want it to do and then hack it which also takes a load of time. So many times you which you could just throw away WordPress and create a clean PHP site from scratch.
I have not tried AngularJS in WordPress yet and maybe there is a way to get around the limitations.

What I don't understand why yoy favour wordpress so much? I started using joomla and it's lovely. I tried wordpress as well but found it less capable...

I would suggest WP 90% of the time, no make that 99% of the time to a customer. I've worked on both. An it is a waste of time to do a website from scratch(Not always though) You will end up writing what someone else has already done, there's no reason why you should start from scratch. Yes, there's some occasions where a scratch built website/web App is a must, but in the real world, when you are a developer or work for a studio and most of the time a customer is requesting a website, WP is the most sensible solution, it will cover their needs. If anyone is doubting WP's reliability, lookup the huge companies that depend on a WP site,daily. When you are in business time is money, developing a site from scratch takes at least 4 times the time it takes to layout a WP site. Developers can't have this "holier than thou" attitude towards a solution that 99% of the time covers all of their needs. We work for the customers, not to please our developer ego, the customer doesn't care what a framework is or how you used the latest JS library to make the nifty scroll animations.

Now there's that 1% customer that has very specific needs, these usually need a custom made app. Usually has a budget and a plan in the, at least months range. And this type of customer most of the time, knows before hand that WP isn't just going to cut it for their demands. As an example a web app for a movie like the Blair Witch Project. Those have VR, 360 experience, etc. Maybe that's beyond WP, and still, with customization it can be done but maybe it's isn't worth the time.

One word: simplified. happy 4th

if you are doing something like your portfolio, do it 100% from scratch, if you are making an app the same, but for this kinds of blogs or maybe a site you are making for somebody, wordpress is the way to go, people appreciate more how fast you are than your work bc nobody cares about how many hours of effort you put into it, you'll make it look better, faster on wordpress, and you'll be less stressed at the end of the day, who knows if you are really good you can make a 2 week long project in just 1 day

very cool post Seth. Apprecite your post :::))