Wordpress gets lots of bad press and I can understand a lot of it.
But I was recently asked by a friend what he should use if he wanted to start a personal blog.
He has no coding knowledge and no interest in learning to code. So this rules out rolling your own.
All I could think of was Wordpress, he registered a domain, installed Wordpress via a 1-Click installation and was up and running with his first post published online within an hour or so.
What would you have suggested if asked the same question?
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I am not expert on WP but I assume they are all valid concerns.
The problem with TinyCMS and Gatsby is that this would require coding/development knowledge and a fair amount of time setting up, designing, deploying etc.
The vast majority of people including my friend wanting to set up a personal blog would not have the knowledge or the interest to go down this route.
In the past, I was using Blogger / Blogspot. However, WordPress is indeed a greater gateway to customization.
Also, WordPress company does sell domain names, making it easy.
You can also use WordPress only for the admin panel and its API.
WordPress still stay #1 CMS at world, most simple, most universal..
If your friend not have coding skills WordPress best solution.
using gatsby or something else will just waste your friend’s time digging through the documentation..
Over a third of the Internet is WordPress, be it wordpress.com or self-installed WordPress from the .org. Not just blogs but very large companies and sites use WordPress. WordPress is the core of a large number of support, programming, and support service companies... I don't see WordPress going anywhere anytime soon...