WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. (www.theregister.com)
from Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 08:07
https://feddit.org/post/4188466

One told to take down posts that said nice things about WP Engine

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 28 Oct 08:18 next collapse

And so the world of WordPress comes to an inglorious ending …

jonne@infosec.pub on 28 Oct 08:30 collapse

About time.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 28 Oct 08:37 collapse

I did originally write that in my post, but deleted it because I asked myself, “What’s the alternative?”

halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 08:58 next collapse

Blood is in the water. The sharks will come to feed on the corpse. If one manages to make an alternative that can be a nearly seamless switch from WP that will probably succeed.

horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 08:59 next collapse

Drupal. Grav, Strapi, Postlight, and many others if you want to self host. SquareSpace or Hubspot if you don’t want to self host.

Maestro@fedia.io on 28 Oct 09:02 next collapse

That's all fine for technically inclined people, not for the scores of tech illiterate folk that need a big "migrate" button.

horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 09:03 collapse

Hubspot or SquareSpace will do that for you

jonne@infosec.pub on 28 Oct 09:39 next collapse

There’s probably already a bunch of forks people could move to, if needed, people could coalesce around one. That should be a drop-in replacement that the hosting provider could even do for you.

horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 09:43 next collapse

Please don’t fork WordPress. There’s better CMS out there. Look up WPForce if you’d like to see just how terrible WordPress is

AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today on 28 Oct 09:55 collapse

It was already forked as classicpress.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz on 28 Oct 09:45 collapse

Grav and strapi are open core only (arguably so is wordpress though), I’m not familiar with postlight.

Dot@feddit.org on 28 Oct 13:11 collapse

Ghost works well for blogs.

exu@feditown.com on 28 Oct 08:40 next collapse

Every action by Automattic/WordPress Foundation sounds like something from a 101: How to kill your community book

ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 09:16 next collapse

Wow. This is sad and funny at the same time.

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Oct 09:29 next collapse

If anyone wants a ‘quick’ solution, have a look at ClassicPress which was forked from WordPress a while ago.

www.classicpress.net

NB: it does have a big friendly ‘migrate’ button which works pretty well (in the form of a WordPress plugin). However, expect some of your other plugins not to be compatible.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 12:53 collapse

Welp. Can’t defend that.