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Discussion on: Static Site Generators - the WordPress alternative no one's talking about

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Luca

Bringin' to attention SSGs for those who're not familiar yet is a good point and above all, a good matter to talk about. But i would not probably say that SSGs are a WordPress alternative, for many reasons. One above all: they're not comparable because are not the same thing.

Then a bunch of other reasons that come quickly in my mind:

  1. SSGs are cool because they're fast but miss the elephant in the room: CMS.
  2. Wordpress is gonna be an outdated technology very soon, unless they refactor the entire event-driven code and, most importantly, the DB structure. However, WordPress runs smootly; its plugins not, which are the most important problem of the WP ecosystem.
  3. I worked many years for several companies that managed high-traffic WordPress websites and owned an entire editorial network. I cannot imagine the hundreds of journalists using a Markdown editor. I don't, really.
  4. WordPress Caching is a thing and real. And it works.

Headless CMS + SSGs are the key, however.