WordPress is getting to be a pain, and expensive – rant

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I have used wordpress for a few sites, so i thought that I’d put together a quick site for a project I’m working on, hoping that the initial content would be enough to fund the more complex version I’m trying to build in laravel.

But frankly, anything more than a very basic website is proving to be a pain in the butt. There are lots of great plugins and builders, but of course, if you need that one little bit of functionality, even if its something rather basic like a divider in elementor, you have to pay out quite a bit of money. Seems to be around $60 to “upgrade to pro” on just about every app I’ve checked so far. And if you dont want to do that, you would need to figure out how to alter the code to make whatever changes you need.

I thought the whole point of most of these plugins was to avoid having to code things yourself, and I appreciate that aspect as I’m not the best at front end design, but it sucks when i know something is as easy as adding a foreach loop or a basic <HR> tag with a style for example, yet there is no simple way to edit these templates. Or when I need to various relational aspects, yet I cant get things to display the way I need them too.

Any complex site could easily end up being thousands of dollars to put together (not including developer time) and then still end up being a major headache trying to make the various plugins work together, and deal with WordPress’s database structure. At this point, I feel like my effort would be better served just figuring out to finish my site from scratch.

Its just very frustrating to me when I know exactly what needs to be done, but not how to do it.

Want to add fields to a relationship (Job to user for example)—> dont have a clue how to do that in wordpress. I need a M:M pivot table that I can add extra fields to.

Want to align checkbox inputs by the box and not the label in my custom code? –>cant figure out the proper CSS code to make that happen.

Sorry if the post doesn’t make sense. I’m just frustrated and wish I could get my project launched.

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