{"id":9426,"date":"2023-06-17T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2023-06-17T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:14:07","slug":"a-desire-to-dump-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-desire-to-dump-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"A Desire to Dump WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>In theory WordPress is a fantastic tool to write a blog, without needing to learn to code. In practice I am tired of WordPress and I have been tired of WordPress ever since they started to use blocks, and ever since I noticed that it uses React.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>React and Meta<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that PHP was developed by Facebook, and that we use it all the time, but I also know that React was developed by Facebook as it was morphing into Meta, the destroyer of the independent web. Instagram and Whatsapp were destroyed by Facebook, as the monopolist took over those accounts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blocks and ClassicPress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not alone to feel this way. I see that there is the ClassicPress community. I tried ClassicPress and it works, but it feels like time could be better spent with a different project, that diverges, and has a more concrete direction than \u201cWe don\u2019t like blocks\u201d. I am oversimplifying. I realise it\u2019s more than that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hugo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After playing with Hugo for a week or two I think that this would be a very nice solution. I don\u2019t need comments, and I don\u2019t need a complicated backend for the type of blogging I do. I believe that Hugo would easily fill the gap left behind by WordPress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dormant WordPress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If and when I do make this change I won\u2019t convert my WordPress blog to Hugo. I would simply create a new directory and write blog posts that would go there. I am still not certain of my strategy. For now the goal is to have my static website running Hugo cleanly, before then adding the blogging section. Within the next week I should be ready to make the leap.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And Finally<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before WordPress I tried plenty of different content management tools and services, as can be seen in the wayback machine.&nbsp; I am migrating, primarily because I want to try something new. I want to learn how to use a new tool and expand my skills, rather than have them plateau. The reason for the switch can be described in a single word. Curiousity. I am curious to see how I can use this \u201cnew\u201d tool, to blog, with a different workflow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>In theory WordPress is a fantastic tool to write a blog, without needing to learn to code. In practice I am tired of WordPress and I have been tired of WordPress ever since they started to use blocks, and ever since I noticed that it uses React.&nbsp; React and Meta I know that PHP was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[5197,1094,1010],"class_list":["post-9426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-website-news","tag-hugo","tag-learning","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9428,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}