How stable is wp.org?

  • veltis

    (@veltis)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve been playing around WordPress and trying to stretch what it can be used for beyond personal journaling–I’ve found it’s so easy for non-computer savvy people to use that I’ve been recommending it just about everywhere. So here’s the problem:

    The most recent candidate for web help has been an old friend of my father’s who has his own little mom-and-pop travel agency that he started in the 70’s. He has no clue/barely a clue about the web, and time and online airline bookings are passing his company by. They can’t afford a dedicated web code monkey, but they do have one person on staff who could use WordPress to do basic updating of content. They need a basic site with basic info about them, plus a News page (blog), and WordPress would be a perfect match.

    I could set wp.org up for them, but I’m worried that in the long term there may be weird esoteric technical issues that will need extensive support, that they certainly can’t handle themselves.

    Thoughts on this?

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  • Dgold

    (@dgold)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    After you donate the set-up, give ’em a card with your phone number and rates.

    Be sure you install good spam-plugins for them, that will help keep away problems.

    Any website has the liklihood of needing technical assistance eventually. WP isn’t more troublesome than any other self-published solutions I know of (such as a clunky hand-coded HTML or Dreamweaver type of page, or some other CMS). However if you get a hosted service, like say Myspace, or WordPress.com or Blogger, then “they” will take care of upgrades for ya’… could be easier for a complete novice with no funds… the tradeoff being, it’s not exactly your own website, you’re depending on another company.

    It’s fairly likely that you’ll want to Upgrade any WP site to the next version of WP, if not immediately then sometime within the next year or 2, it seems very predictable that some level of WP expertise/familiarity will be needed.

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