What do you NOT like about Wordpress?

jasonmorgan

14 years ago

blasphemy!

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lukemeister

14 years ago

The only thing I don't like about it is that WP users really need to keep up on updating the system to the latest version to avoid putting yourself in the position of getting hacked - that's probably about it though

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seoboy

14 years ago

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the worst thing i ever noticed in free wordpress blog is it doesnt facilitate you in installing google analytics without a plugin. If you are using free wordpress blogging services, there is no way for you to verify your google analytics account on wordpress hosted blog.

that discourages me to use wordpress and gives an edge to blogger.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

The constant upgrading is a royal pain. Plus, sometimes they seem to change things in Administration just for the sake of changing things.

Additionally, WordPress has a pretty large footprint (8 MBs or so), which is overkill if all you're doing is a small site or simple blog. WP can take up more server space than your actual content.

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seoboy 14 years ago

Also i am using WP 2.9.1 but WP panel says that i should upgrade my wordpress to 2.9.2 which is really teasing. My blog was hosted on a godaddy server where it was attacked by malware, and the solution they provided is to keep WP updated with latest versions... huh
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Dan C. Rinnert 14 years ago

Originally Posted by VincentMuir

I can deal with the upgrades but what I really despise are the SPAM attacks!

WP blogs are the most targeted and it sucks.

I know. I have an "under construction" WordPress blog that only has a "Hello World!" post, and it constantly gets hit by spam comments. They all go into moderation, so it's easy to mass delete them, but it's still crazy.
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Karen Blundell

14 years ago

Originally Posted by VincentMuir

Hey forum,

I can deal with the upgrades but what I really despise are the SPAM attacks!

WP blogs are the most targeted and it sucks.

Someone needs to drop a 'Kill All Spammers' worm into cyberspace...I'm just sayin'!

use the plugin called Conditional Captcha for WordPress. It works hand in hand with Akismet and it works perfectly!

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inter123

14 years ago

Just like using any software program, it takes time and plenty of it to learn Wordpress. If someone knows HTML, it will be quicker to create an HTML site.

Maybe I am wrong, but I am not sure if a person has total control over the layout of the site. It might not be possible to tweak to the last detail.

Also there is so many files and directories attached to it, unless time is spent looking at it and possibly learning the likes of PHP, its impossible to know whats going on with the site to the last detail.

Having hand coded the site in HTML, its easier to figure out if problems with the site itself arise.

Is there any sites out there that make serious cash that use Wordpress? I think not. Its okay to use it on sites that are pass on link juice, traffic feeders, etc to the main site.

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Karen Blundell

14 years ago

Originally Posted by inter123

Just like using any software program, it takes time and plenty of it to learn Wordpress. If someone knows HTML, it will be quicker to create an HTML site.

Maybe I am wrong, but I am not sure if a person has total control over the layout of the site. It might not be possible to tweak to the last detail.

Also there is so many files and directories attached to it, unless time is spent looking at it and possibly learning the likes of PHP, its impossible to know whats going on with the site to the last detail.

Having hand coded the site in HTML, its easier to figure out if problems with the site itself arise.

Is there any sites out there that make serious cash that use Wordpress? I think not. Its okay to use it on sites that are pass on link juice, traffic feeders, etc to the main site.

wow...where do you get your information?
A few years ago, Bankaholic.com, a 2 year blog developed by Johns Wu, a 22-year-old webmaster, sold for a cool 15 million...(Google it!)
JohnChow.com is a WordPress blog...John Chow makes at least 5 figures a month from his blog...I could go on...

Yes, you can definitely make serious cash from your WordPress blog
and you can definitely control every aspect of the design if you already know how to develop WordPress themes so you have strong knowledge of PHP, XHTML, CSS

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tyroneshum

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

The constant upgrading is a royal pain. Plus, sometimes they seem to change things in Administration just for the sake of changing things.

Additionally, WordPress has a pretty large footprint (8 MBs or so), which is overkill if all you're doing is a small site or simple blog. WP can take up more server space than your actual content.

I'm on you but overall, I'm still happy with it.

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Marian 14 years ago

trying hard to find anything I hate about WP... only the needed updates perhaps.

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Zeus66

14 years ago

I don't like how difficult WP can be to set up correctly on another server if you sell a site. I've run into this in the past and it was a nightmare for the buyer and for me. Honestly, I stick with HTML/CSS sites almost exclusively these days for that reason alone. But I do agree that the constant upgrades are a pain. Also, you can get bogged down wasting time because of all the plugin choices. It leads to analysis paralysis.

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Midas3 Consulting

14 years ago

The editor, I think it's god awful out of the box and while you
can add more functionality with plugins, I still think it's pretty
bad when you're trying to deal with images and formatting etc.

Sometimes you'll do "x" save it and then go back and it's pushed
it back into an awful position on save.

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Karen Blundell

14 years ago

Originally Posted by SimonHarrison

The editor, I think it's god awful out of the box and while you
can add more functionality with plugins, I still think it's pretty
bad when you're trying to deal with images and formatting etc.

Sometimes you'll do "x" save it and then go back and it's pushed
it back into an awful position on save.

the visual editor is not the best, I agree, that's why I never use it...I turn it off.

I love WordPress but if I had to choose one thing that I don't like about it (that's about to change with Canonical Plugins) is that often times plugins are not compatible with the latest versions of WordPress because the plugin author has stopped developing it, etc...

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All Night Cafe 14 years ago

Mind would be the spam attacks and second all
of the updates. It's gets crazy sometimes.
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JonMills

14 years ago

Well wordpress sites are commonly being used by spamming idiots who are out to make a quick buck vs use it as another tool in business.

I mix up my sites, use joomla on some, use xsitepro on others and wordpress for others. Never throw your apples in one basket

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Trivum

14 years ago

I use Wordpress all the time because of the flexibility and because I know it fairly well and feel comfortable tinkering under the hood. I also like all the themes you can use with it. However, there are a lot of problems that come with WP.

For me, it's a resource hog. ... Had to upgrade my server because of the problems.

I've been SERIOUSLY hacked.

The plugins break (not a WP issue itself, of course, but the idea of using WP is that you have all the plugins - if not, there wouldn't be a really big reason to use it).

It's a pain to upgrade, as someone mentioned. It's much easier now with auto-upgrade, but when you upgrade a lot of the plugins might not work.

Things suddenly go wrong for no apparent reason, and trying to get help on their forum is pretty much useless for most things.

... Still, I will continue to use it for the first reasons stated above.

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tresfavian

14 years ago

I've been trying to get banners to line up in a grid system. To layout across
the page and repeated below. So placement of images and ads are a pain to me. Any suggestions how to control this?

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thunderbird

14 years ago

Originally Posted by tresfavian

I've been trying to get banners to line up in a grid system. To layout across
the page and repeated below. So placement of images and ads are a pain to me. Any suggestions how to control this?

Are you doing it within widget areas or pasting code directly into pages?

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Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter

14 years ago

When I first started using WordPress I was told I would lose 50 pounds and my acne would completely clear up. Don't believe it.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

I can't think of a single thing that I don't like about Wordpress other than the fact that I've spent about $1000 on developers licenses for premium themes ...

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Fernando Veloso

14 years ago

I want a automated Updater. Why not?

Old version? Auto Update.

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Badabong

14 years ago

I hate updating all my plugins

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sridhar

14 years ago

Originally Posted by seoboy

Well..............

the worst thing i ever noticed in free wordpress blog is it doesnt facilitate you in installing google analytics without a plugin. If you are using free wordpress blogging services, there is no way for you to verify your google analytics account on wordpress hosted blog.

that discourages me to use wordpress and gives an edge to blogger.

No need of a plugin. Use functions.php. See 25+ Extremely Useful Tricks for the WordPress Functions File

Originally Posted by Zeus66

I don't like how difficult WP can be to set up correctly on another server if you sell a site. I've run into this in the past and it was a nightmare for the buyer and for me. Honestly, I stick with HTML/CSS sites almost exclusively these days for that reason alone. But I do agree that the constant upgrades are a pain. Also, you can get bogged down wasting time because of all the plugin choices. It leads to analysis paralysis.

John

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Originally Posted by tresfavian

I've been trying to get banners to line up in a grid system. To layout across
the page and repeated below. So placement of images and ads are a pain to me. Any suggestions how to control this?

You might want to use Billboard plugin.

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JennSpencerIM

14 years ago

I don't use wordpress since they will not allow me to place an Icontact sign-up form on my blog...I think maybe if I used wordpress.org I could do it but honestly I'm such a computer dope, its just easier to use Blogger for me.

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CliveG

14 years ago

One installation of Wordpress that could handle multiple domains would be good (I think that it's coming sometime). Alternatively a Wordpress Lite that leaves out all the bloat that I don't need. But then everyone has different views about what to leave out.

So, on balance, it's a great piece of software and if you need something extra you an write a plugin. Thanks to all the authors.

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

I don't like the online theme editor - it should be completely removed because it's useless and just opens up blogs for hacker attacks.

I don't like the messy wysiwyg (Visual) editor, should be removed.

I don't like the idea of auto-saving zillion versions of a post... (I know about the plugin but it should be the other way around: plugin if I wanted it!)

I don't like how the [gallery] function organizes the uploaded media.

(and, BTW, I don't like how the main discussion forum here, the one about making money, is becoming like a WP support forum

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IRichie

14 years ago

I used WP three times to make a blog, but my blogs were suspended for the reasons I do not know, I hate it now.

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Blade Runner 77

14 years ago

I really really dislike the new WP 2.9.2 update, it slowed my computer dramatically, and when editing in WP it goes in starts and stops about once per minute. I really really regret using it and wish I could get rid of it.

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14 years ago

Two things I don't like:

1) The WYSIWYG editor is not always 100% accurate. Dreamweaver's is still way better.

2) It's difficult to implement some custom PHP scripts into your WP posts.

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by DigitalJoe

With that, What do YOU not like about Wordpress?

Primarily, that upgrading is a pain AND new versions are released frequently AND there are usually major security issues.

If they didn't release a new WP upgrade every couple weeks, it wouldn't bother me so much.

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acoustic

14 years ago

Constant updates. Not a fan of WordPress at all.

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pappyy3 14 years ago

I'm also not a fan of worpress although I have a site I set up a while back.

* Spam Attacks
* Security Threats
* Feels like never-ending updates
* Looks and feels like a blog. Even designs that claim to replicate a website still look too "bloggy"
* Too many distractions for visitors
* resource heavy
* My HTML sites get more traffic, and rank better than my blog and I haven't touched them in over a year!

What's not to like about wordpress???
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petr_ind

14 years ago

I hate the earlier versions because it can be hacked. But now they have fixed this.
hmmm... other things i hate? i don't know.

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KenJ 14 years ago

I'm amazed that no one so far has mentioned the themes.
Most of them look plain awful.
I find that the premium themes all have "Special Features" that are cumbersome and fiddly at the same time.

How many hours I have wasted trawling through the pages of themes only to end up back with my usual one that is plain and simple. (Clean Copy)

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Michael Oksa

14 years ago

So, it's not just me then.

I am not a fan of WordPress at all.

It is NOT intuitive as I've seen many people claim. The simplest tasks for changing things is more complicated than it needs to be. Someone mentioned there may be plugins to make that easier, BUT that's NOT a reason to love WP, it's a reason to love the plug in.

Hello?

~Michael

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Lothar Evers 14 years ago

It can be so extremely slow when editing. Especially her on the country side where internet connection is not that strong. Seriously thinking about buying a tool that allows Wordpress on my local computer, to upload it later.
But that is all: I love it. Never would have come that far, if Wordpress would not exist.
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- tom03 14 years ago
  
  I really like wordpress and use it as a platform for all my sites.
  
  I do get tired of the constant updating. Being a theme developer I have to stay on top of all the constant updates.
  
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- Istvan Horvath 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Lothar Evers
  
  Seriously thinking about buying a tool that allows Wordpress on my local computer, to upload it later.
  
  No need to buy anything.
  Go to apachefriends.org and download XAMPP - it is simple and will install everything on your machine that you need to run WP locally: Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyadmin etc.)
  
  Then you can have a full WP installation running on your computer. When I edit/code a theme I do it on a local install: editing the file in PSPad and in a browser window having open WP... all the changes made in the text editor (PSPad) can be seen immediately on the (local) WP site.
  
  You can export the whole installation to a live server, too.
  
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Keisha

14 years ago

Hmmmm gotta say its simple and that worked for me.x.

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theemperor

14 years ago

I don't like the fact it's free for my competitors.

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thunderbird

14 years ago

Wordpress is not perfect by any means. I've definitely come upon situations where wordpress was not the appropriate cms, eg wp basically sucks when it comes to shopping carts (paid or free). Sometimes Joomla, Drupal or other cms makes more sense for certain kinds of website needs and functionalities.

Issues with Wordpress often apply to other CMS, eg security problems, security holes introduced by activating certain plugins.

It would be nice if wordpress easily allowed for creating a unique plugin folder and other other unique characteristics for users to specify, not visible to all, to help make less vulnerable to hackers. Hackers will attack just as surely mosquitoes spread malaria. And wordpress has lots of vulnerabilities (as does Joomla).

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