First off, don't waste your money on wp plugins. There's plenty of
them out there that are free, and if they're free, there's usually no
strings attached, meaning that if it's not perfectly accessible,
making it so won't invalidate your license or something equally silly.
If you're going to use word press (a lot of folks do) there's no harm
in changing things if they don't suit your purposes, because it's all
free, and you can pretty much do what you like with it, as long as
you release your changes if you make significant ones. I decided for
my purposes, wp was too bloated, and way too complex for what I
wanted. I would have had no problem using it, as I've been using
computers for 25 years, and php for about 5 of those, so changing
things to my purposes would not have been hard, but on the same note,
if I could change them, I figured it'd be better to start from
scratch, and build my own, especially since all I wanted was rather
simple things, all of which I could make myself w/o any wp help, and
since I've been hand coding my html from the outset (around 1996 or
so) I figured it'd be silly for me to start using other stuff now. :)
And besides, I like programming, and this was fun.
But, with all that said, wp does what it does very well, and if you
can use it, then by all means use it. However, I strongly advise you
to look around before purchasing any plugins. I've almost always
found free or cheaper alternatives to just about every plugin I've
seen that was charging lots of money for it's use.
Don't waste your money until you're sure there's nothing else
available that will do the job.
With that said, I'll freely admit, that folks are doing some amazing
things with word press, and ocasionaly, even I don't recognize a site
as being a wordpress site until I get to the bottom and it says so at
the footer, but generally those exceptions are rare. This is why you
should carefully consider if you want wp as your web site, because
it's so recognizable, a lot of folks that don't like wp will leave
your site without looking when they see that little banner.
Admittedly, it's probably not a lot of folks, but they are out there.
Of course, you'll get a percentage of folks leaving anyhow, so that
may not be a concern for you.
I didn't need or want the complexity of wp, so didn't use it, but
then again, with that complexity comes a lot of power, and a lot of
things are done for you, so if simple is what you want, there's not
much that's simpler than a properly setup wp site.
I know I'm probably not making sense, supporting and tearing down
alternatively, but I'm only trying to state all te angles here, so
take this for what it's worth.
But, I stand by my don't buy wp plugins for tripple digit prices
until you've searched, and assured yourself there's nothing
equivalent elsewhere to suit your purposes, most of the time, it's
just not worth the price.
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