WordPress vs Static Site Generators - Which one should you use?

[@donnfelkeryt]

Sept 2024 Update: I still use Wordpress for my blog as i just want it to work. However for all my other sales and marketing sites for my app or SaaS apps, I use a static site generator with Ruby, Tailwind CSS, Stimulus JS and more. It gives me tons of flexibility and ... WOW ... its amazingly blazingly fast to load. Which on mobile, every second counts.

[@ex0stasis72]

Some other points to consider: Text editor: Perhaps you prefer your own text editor that you've grown super comfortable with such as Vim, Emacs, or VS Code and want to write your blog posts in that instead of a web browser that doesn't have as good of a way of implementing Vim keybindings. Static site generators may be preferable there. Pay-as-you-go: Static websites are cheaper to run (if you're on a pay-as-you-go web hosting plan) because for each page visit from a user, the processing work to generate that page was done once and gets served as is for everyone. For a dynamic site, each page is generated, eating up CPU cycles for each page load. Though, if you prefer, there are static website generator plugins for this if you still prefer the Wordpress way.

[@donnfelkeryt]

Valid points 👆 thank you for sharing!

[@NMNaufaldo]

I really appreciate your video editing :)

[@donnfelkeryt]

I’ll let my editors know you like it. Thank you!

[@Crownedgoddessllc]

Great information thank you!

[@donnfelkeryt]

Glad it has helped you!

[@Football__Junkie]

I’ve considered using Hugo but I can build on Wordpress using Oxygen fairly quickly and host the pages on a CDN through my host and the site is pretty damn fast. So, not sure what purpose SSG’s anymore

[@donnfelkeryt]

Yeah, if you configure Wordpress properly it can be screaming fast.

[@guanacodevs]

I thought you built your sites from scratch, html, css, javascript + python or something else. Always tell my friends to use wordpress, for the same reasons you just described. Used it once a while ago and was impressed how easy it was. Personally I rather write mines from scratch, part of the learning curve.

[@donnfelkeryt]

If it’s used to learn I think that is a great use case. However, when it ends up slowing you down, to the point where you can’t ship on time, that’s where you need to rethink your strategy. 👌

[@bilimlink]

SSGs are safer in general because they don't have a database or coding on the server side. Updates to the core of WordPress, as well as plugins and styles, could add security holes. Because SSGs are more resistant to hacker attempts, data breaches and failures are less likely to happen.

[@HaifengZhu-pn3uq]

please make a video on website and web app

[@HaifengZhu-pn3uq]

Apart from SaaS, CMS, static site generator, is there any other easy way to build website

[@donnfelkeryt]

By hand

[@GarethBult]

Question; why static "or" WordPress? There isn't anything you can't do with WordPress in terms of design, it's just the performance that's a potential issue .. so why not design and maintain with WordPress, THEN publish the result as a Static? Have you seen "makemestatic" for WordPress?

[@paulsundling]

WordPress can be so slow if you have too many plugins. The generated CSS and JS are insane and bloated. I tried to simplify the Wordpress generated site to static pages and it took weeks. I would have been better off building the site again from scratch. I had an author page up for years and it kept breaking without any changes because of the churn of updates on the plugins and WordPress itself. Most of the best features of my site disappeared because a plugin didn't make the transition to the newest WordPress. Never again. I'm more comfortable with handwritten code than these UI generators.

[@elliotheath5366]

Would building something for yourself vs for a client impact your decision?

[@donnfelkeryt]

Absolutely. Depends on what you're trying to do. Learn? Explore? Etc? Maybe go for a generator. Need more customizing? Maybe a generator. If you need ease of use, go with Wordpress/etc.

[@HaifengZhu-pn3uq]

how much does middleman cost?

[@donnfelkeryt]

Middleman is open source. It’s free.

[@solutionroute]

"Three of these are javascript based" kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ-yk5abYpKsjNk Hugo is written in Go.