Show HN: Curated list of companies using WordPress

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4 points·mcbetz··3 comments

Curator here. WordPress is popular but also has a reputation of being beginners only and not suited for bigger projects. With this curated list I want to counter that impression. Sites are sorted by category and ranked by Alexa global score. Blogs and news sites are left out for now as the goal is to show that you can build CMS systems that go beyond a regular blog.

Contributions and contributors are very welcomed.

How do you like the idea of promoting popular high-quality WordPress sites?

Wordpress has also come to a point where you need to throw at lot of money at it in the corporate space. Being a wordpress consultant is the new money maker/waster.

I agree. There are quite a few business cases where you need premium plugins. Some of these cases should be covered by WordPress Core but are not. Custom Fields is the best example here, ACF the (well performing) benefitor of a poor core. Forms are another area where core should provide more. What I find most troubling though is that decent development environments and migrations are only possible with a very expensive plugin (WP Migrate DB) or with a very complicated and not often reliable process (WordMove).

Oftentimes, WordPress ends up being as expensive as a premium CMS like CraftCMS but with the disadvantage of different (and often lacking) documentation and no or diverted support.

I still think that WordPress excels at providing a simple user interface for editors and can get customized with open source tools. But there are few accessible resources on how to tweak your WordPress instance with CMB2 (custom fields) or Timber (twig template engine for WordPress)

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