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Anyone feel that WordPress has stagnated?
Are there are any ‘cutting edge’ themes out there or next level plugins? We’re in 2024, I’m looking for next level sht! What I’m talking about are plugins or themes with tons of Features, tons of Flexibility, awesome Design, flexible Design, techy tech stuff, on the cutting edge, 2024 type stuff. Everything feels a little dated. I want to create huge platforms not just a “blog.” Also WordPress is as bloaty as Oprah pre-ozempic. Any cool stuff still on WP or is time to get a different solution? Thanks.
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I’ve moved away from premium themes to Bricks Builder, AutomaticCSS, and ACF (currently moving to ACPT due to LTD). All this stuff is fairly new to me, so I’m learning as much as I can, and so far I find it interesting.
Unless WP gets a full overhaul, and integration of a builder like Bricks, with features from plugins mentioned above, these will have to do otherwise. You can built a ton of stuff with those three alone. Of course there are lots of other add-ons that can help further, and here’s always the fall-back on languages such as CSS, PHP, and JS (for those who are comfortable coding) if you need more.
Seems like someone doesn’t understand how to use WP properly.
WordPress is the engine – what you are talking about is the skin and extra features which rely on the designers skill set or client feature requirements.
Carbon Fields. Never gets old, never underperforms. Best WP thing ever.
Everything feels dated because WordPress is just an old solution to modern problems. It really is just a sunken cost fallacy. Since 60% of the web is already on it – people feel inclined to continue using it even though there are hundreds of solutions that are just all around better.
I just made a switch to Statamic. It’s based on Laravel so it not only can be used for blog sites but also turned into full on web apps. The flexibility is unlimited.
For the front end I use Webflow which pretty much gives me unlimited creativity and contributes 0 bloat whatsoever.
I love the post history.
This post: WordPress is as bloated as Oprah.
2 months ago: I have 70 plugins in WordPress and I want to install about 100.
WordPress is what you make it my friend. And you’ve made it very fat.
Let me guess, you want a plugin for EVERYTHING and a theme that is exactly as YOU want without actually doing any work or putting in any effort. That my friend is the stagnation you speak of.
Ironically it’s only the folks that use a WYSIWYG builder that seem to have this issue…
Here’s a crazy idea. Try learning HTML, PHP and CSS. Leverage the WordPress hooks and use filters and functions to add cool stuff. Much better than moaning that the platform has become stagnant.