33 min
WordPress VS custom Website: How to scale from WP to custom software Building Digital Products
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- Technology
Figuring out the right time to say goodbye to WordPress and finding out how to do it painlessly.
One day you may realize that you need to scale to make your business larger and to add more functionalities. And then, most definitely, you will face different kinds of technical limitations from WordPress.
Things will get fuzzy, you won’t know what decision will be right, as you will probably be the one with a business model that works for years and brings you some money. Well, don’t worry, it’s a very common situation. WordPress might be very good to start with, but not good enough to continue.
WordPress is the CMS system that was originally created as a block publishing tool giving people the ability to make their own websites easily, fast and cheap. Social media weren’t so popular back then, some of them didn’t exist at all, so people were happy to share stories on their own sites.
A lot of engineers and designers started to work with WordPress too. They updated it with different themes and plugins which made functionality bigger. And that is why people started to use WordPress for other aims like making business websites, advertising websites or online shops.
According to the latest data, 35% of all the websites in the world are developed with WordPress (this is huge!). There are two main reasons for that. First, it is very simple. Any person without engineering knowledge can understand how it works. Second, the installation is fast and cheap. But...
👉🏻 Why WordPress is so popular
👉🏻 Why it may actually be not the best solution for your business
👉🏻 When you should get off your dead horse
👉🏻 Three things that will help you to make the right decision
💻 Read the text version on the blog
https://linkupst.com/blog/how-to-scale-from-wordpress-to-custom-software/
Figuring out the right time to say goodbye to WordPress and finding out how to do it painlessly.
One day you may realize that you need to scale to make your business larger and to add more functionalities. And then, most definitely, you will face different kinds of technical limitations from WordPress.
Things will get fuzzy, you won’t know what decision will be right, as you will probably be the one with a business model that works for years and brings you some money. Well, don’t worry, it’s a very common situation. WordPress might be very good to start with, but not good enough to continue.
WordPress is the CMS system that was originally created as a block publishing tool giving people the ability to make their own websites easily, fast and cheap. Social media weren’t so popular back then, some of them didn’t exist at all, so people were happy to share stories on their own sites.
A lot of engineers and designers started to work with WordPress too. They updated it with different themes and plugins which made functionality bigger. And that is why people started to use WordPress for other aims like making business websites, advertising websites or online shops.
According to the latest data, 35% of all the websites in the world are developed with WordPress (this is huge!). There are two main reasons for that. First, it is very simple. Any person without engineering knowledge can understand how it works. Second, the installation is fast and cheap. But...
👉🏻 Why WordPress is so popular
👉🏻 Why it may actually be not the best solution for your business
👉🏻 When you should get off your dead horse
👉🏻 Three things that will help you to make the right decision
💻 Read the text version on the blog
https://linkupst.com/blog/how-to-scale-from-wordpress-to-custom-software/
33 min