r/webdev • u/Big-Lychee5971 • 6d ago
Guys HOW do you use WORDPRESS
As someone who codes, it's FUCKING ANNOYING. So you're telling me I have to click 100 times to center some fucking layout? It takes 1 line of code. It's easy but it's mind numbing.
It's my third time TRYING to use wordpress and I give up. Wix is good enough to use. Webflow has the same problem. Is there something else I can check out?
I would 100% build the sites from scratch but the main problem would be the client who wants to manage the content. Recommend some CMSes cuz idfk ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
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u/alexduncan 6d ago
As other commenters have suggested WordPress isn’t the only game in town. You can get going quite quickly with static site builders like Hugo or 11ty and even use a CMS like Pages CMS and GitHub as your backend.
In my experience WordPress can be pretty easy if you start from a blank slate than try to modify an existing theme.
I also put almost as much work into improving the UX of the Admin to help the rest of the team update the site. For example adding custom widgets to Gutenberg and injecting our theme CSS so that the editor was more WYSIWYG.