Wordpress? Thank you but no thank you.
For a customer I need to babysit 6 WordPress websites. Shocking results after 1 full year of babysitting:
- in total, a handful plugins suddenly stopped working (forcing me to disable automatic updates)
- sites went down completely due to badly working plugins
- websites got hacked for unexplicable reasons and needed to revert to backups.
1 year... This is a joke. QuickerSite hasn't been upgraded since 2014. Not a single issue. Guess to which CMS I will migrate these 6 sites....
21/01/2022 08:37:38 | Pieter | Login | Reply | Replies (2)
- Pieter says: (02/02/2022 19:45:13)whooops once again. a WP site, 18 plugins. all up-to-date. 1 plugin causes the complete site to crash.
you have no idea how often i had to update wp_options and set active_plugins to a:0:{} already...
What. A. Mess. - JohnW says: (25/04/2022 16:15:09)Were you running them on IIS? I have to support a couple of Wordpress sites on a Windows server. I find that WP out of the box works like a dream on IIS but there are issues with some of the plugins because the developers have only ever tested the thing in a UNIX environment. With the plugins which were hang when you try to update them I find you can get around it by downloading the zip, opening it and dropping the directory it contains into the appropriate place in File Manager.
There's also a site I run written in classic asp, but that isn't obvious because I use URL rewriting. Every so often I find 404 errors in the server logs which are the result of someone (or something) looking for a non existent WP login page. I'm tempted to add a page which fits the URL and put a rude message on it.
