In my experience, wordpress is very confusing for non-technical people to navigate. It is largely not different than a "custom" setup because it's always some patched together job of various plugins to the point that it becomes brittle and difficult to work with. I get the sense that technical people think it is more straightforward and prescribe it to people, but any non-technical person I've worked with is utterly lost in it.

I don't think the LLMs change the argument either. If anything, dealing with the complexities of wordpress could make it even more difficult without someone who knows what they're doing.

Somewhere around 15 years ago, I thought wordpress was viable, but I think we need to leave it in the dust. I worked with it again 5 years ago, and the situation was no different from what I could tell.

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farseer 4 days ago | parent [-]

Its just a website to post community events, don't think any plugins would be required.

	▲	SenHeng 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My wife downloads plugins for every little thing. One to hide hide the title from a page, another to display a gallery of images. Often she’ll forget and download a similar one again and they all break. Also instead of making multiple posts, she edits the same post over and over again, adding content to it. That’s how she was taught to use Wordpress at her old job and no amount of explaining or demonstrating will make her change her ways.
	▲	geocrasher 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That never stopped anybody from installing them.