Why do people use wordpress?

I’ve tried to get into wordpress; installed it numerous times and there’s cool plugins… but overall it’s just too hard I’ve found to make it as flexible as I need, compared to using tables in dreamweaver. i know it’s the platform of choice i guess nowadays, but i still feel like “it’ll take forever to do something in WP, that would just take me 10 seconds to do in dreamweaver for a standard html site”.

i mean, positioning stuff on a page using WP is a big huge hassle compared to tables in DW. i know, usability of CMS and personalized logins and ease-of-changing the site via templates, all huge WP pluses, I just wish it was easy to cut and paste tables on an open page, like it is in DW. I probably just need to spend more time in WP; but for now my new sites are all still html ones.

Simple to use + Big Community + Easy to Make Money = All things make me Happy and i am fall in love with wordpress.

Regarding for security issues wordpress is totally secure the backboards are themes and plugin if u not use any quality coded programmed theme or plugin u will have security issues.

Wordpress have many V.I.P clients so they invest money so they also have these security related questions but they use wordpress because they found wordpress all the way RELIABLE .

Thecodingdude said

DanThemes said

Stylius said
Why on Earth would I give my passwords to someone else? If you give your password to another person, then don’t “moan” about WordPress’ security, it is you.

+1 Well said.

You can create multiple admin accounts in wordpress

Only if you are an admin account to begin with.

>This in itself is secure but they can still eventually work their way to get hold of your FTP files

Also I would love for you to explain how this is possible?

graphic4444 said
I’ve tried to get into wordpress; installed it numerous times and there’s cool plugins… but overall it’s just too hard I’ve found to make it as flexible as I need, compared to using tables in dreamweaver. i know it’s the platform of choice i guess nowadays, but i still feel like “it’ll take forever to do something in WP, that would just take me 10 seconds to do in dreamweaver for a standard html site”. i mean, positioning stuff on a page using WP is a big huge hassle compared to tables in DW. i know, usability of CMS and personalized logins and ease-of-changing the site via templates, all huge WP pluses, I just wish it was easy to cut and paste tables on an open page, like it is in DW. I probably just need to spend more time in WP; but for now my new sites are all still html ones.

Well if you’re referring to tables being used for the layout of the page, that’s a problem to begin with. Within HTML , tables are intended to be used to hold and display data in tabular format, nothing more. Really laying out your site properly is not a WordPress thing, it’s actually an HTML thing and that just gets carried over to WordPress. Of course if you’re not fully versed in creating proper sites with HTML , working in WordPress would be overwhelming. I’d suggest starting out with some templates to get a feel for what it’s capable of. When you see how easy updates and maintenance really become with WordPress or any CMS for that matter, I think you’ll be pretty surprised how much time is saved. Harder to setup and implement, but once it’s running as it should it’s a HUGE time saver.

^^ Yeah what he said.

Also, with shortcode functionality… making columns is even easier. You can create any layout in literally minutes.

People these days do not use tables anyway to dictate the layout of their site. It’s mainly done via .css.

iamthwee said

>This in itself is secure but they can still eventually work their way to get hold of your FTP files

Also I would love for you to explain how this is possible?

include(”../wp-config.php”);
echo $DBPASS; (or whatever the variable is)

Then install sqlbuddy, get into wordpress, make yourself an admin (google can point to how). Install plugin and get FTP files.

WordPress makes things so much easier to do, there is a great community and the Codex is amazing.

14% of websites online use it, so there must be something going right there, and one of those sites is run by the CIA , so they should know about security.

Yes, you can set up new admin accounts if you are already an admin, but there is only one super admin account within WordPress.

If there is a way to get into something through FTP via cPanel, wouldn’t that be a cPanel flaw?

Doesn’t wordpress power something like 27million websites now?

Can’t be that bad

@thecodingdude actually LOOK at your WP-config file.

You’ll notice ‘DBPASS’ is stored as a one time hash?

Do you know what that means?