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wordpress or a custom laravel site for a university department? be brutally honest

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Accepted solution by Noor Varga — oh ive been there lol static generators and headless setups shine on security and performance because theres no public admin and no PHP on…
  1. Ibrahim
    @ibrahim_silicon

    not gonna lie this is driving me nuts im planning a site for a university department and Im torn, wordPress is the obvoius choice and i know it well, but Im tired of plugin updates, security patches and page builders. a custom Laravel site keeps coming up as the modern alternative... the people wholl edit teh site arent technical... is switching worth it, or will i just trade one set of problems for another? real experience over hype, please, Ive read enough marketing pages. what am i doing wrong??

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  2. Jade
    @rusty_tinker-1nb

    hmmm how many ppl will edit the site, and how often? ??

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  4. Luca
    @framemonk

    Judge teh editing experience first. If non-technical people update content weekly, the admin UI matters more than build speed ;) Have the actual editors try both before deciding; their frustration is what ends up on ur desk.

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  5. Noor Varga
    @nvarga
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    oh ive been there lol static generators and headless setups shine on security and performance because theres no public admin and no PHP on the server. but forms, search, comments and memberships all need extra services, which adds complexity back in. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  6. Arjun
    @arjun_heap

    unrelated but anyone elses coffee machine also judging them today

    thumbsup

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  7. Ibrahim
    @ibrahim_silicon
    in reply to @nvarga

    @nvarga We split it: WordPress for the editors as a headless backend, static frontend for speed. Thanks for all the perspectives.

    party

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