A few years back there was also a pervading common idea circulating around that WordPress was the best website platform to build upon due to its ease of use and “SEO-friendly” ability to optimize meta tags, URL’s, images, and other attributes that contributed to search rankings. That may have been close to true at one point, but only if your website aspirations were very limited, or if you were just looking for a basic blog to post about what your cat did on a given day.
But oh how things have changed.
That outdated sentiment about SEO superiority was borne out of the frustration that rudimentary coders and non-coders felt in trying to build sites with php and other languages, only to find that once live, their creations now had a boatload of unfixable issues that hampered UX and SEO. So yes, in that context, WP was a big step up.
The other factor contributing to the erroneous “WP is best” mindset of the past was in comparing it with its contemporary website builder alternatives of the time. Big hosting companies like GoDaddy and others offered their non-coding customers a DIY website builder that was supposed to be the ultimate work-around for not knowing how to build a website with code. The result? Terrible-looking, hardly functioning, brand-crushing disasters that appeared to have been created by lunatics who hate their customers.
So yeah, a couple of years ago, WordPress was still the go-to platform for startups light on developer talent. Sadly, WordPress has also been the go-to platform for hackers to take over your websites, steal confidential information, and cripple the online portion of business.
And that brings us back to the present. Here are some of the WordPress flaws in terms of both security and functionality still plaguing site owners in 2017: