I thought I'd chime in as I'm site administrator for small non-profit
organization's web site using whatever free Wordpress functionality I've
inherited.
I find some tasks relatively easy to accomplish. Some others, well, I'll
charitably say that there's just no way things should be that obtuse and
hard to figure out how to do. As for help, I found I was better off
Googling for it.
If it weren't for a good cause, I couldn't see myself continuing as that
site administrator.
Roy
On 5/15/2014 6:55 AM, BWS Johnson wrote:
Salvete!
It sounds like you might want too much out of the box or at least a higher
degree of simplicity or usability than most stuff will provide. Usability is a
holy grail that most folks frankly don't feel like shelling out for so it
remains all shiny and out of reach. Should it? No, of course not. I just don't
think that the performance that you're demanding matches the complexity that
you want. You'll have to eat fast, cheap, or good.
Plugins are a thing now, for good or ill. Trying to avoid plugins will
probably result in hair loss. (I personally think this is a happy thing most of
the time. Who wants to brew widget after widget in house for no real gain?)
I agree that a full version of WordPress sounds like the better solution
in terms of bus accidents. That said I was rather horrified a little while ago
when I got roped into tossing together a quicky site. They definitely seem to
have taken 9 steps back in usability and installed all kinds of paywalls that
never used to exist with the basic cheap jerk on a shoestring free hosted
package. (Really? I have to pay to insert a table. No collapsible links without
monay? Pfffft.) I can definitely vouch that elderly folks are completely
mystified by the new dashboard and continue to pass the maintenance hot potatoe
back to me. Themes are still ludicrously simple to find, swap, and install.
This is great for folks that just want a new look every so often.
I really liked the whole weighting concept to Drupal. Yes Drupal is overly
complex, but it yields granularity that other stuff just doesn't have. More
complexity was baked into Drupal than WordPress.
Cheers,
Brooke
