Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner

5•anitroves•1h ago

Just curious if there is any better alternative for those who just knows basics of coding and are learning as they build.

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ceejayoz•1h ago

No. WordPress is a giant nest of security holes.

anitroves•1h ago

So what's the alternative

ceejayoz•57m ago

Depends on the languages you know and the type of sites you're building.

not_your_vase•50m ago

What's your goal? If you want just a random site, then WP will do the job. If you want to learn web development, then I'd start it with a local http server (apache/nginx/whatever's your poison) and start writing html/css/js by hand, and see how it builds up line by line.

anitroves•44m ago

That is some good advice but i wanna know proper platform or way like wp

wasting_time•39m ago

Look for a "static site generator". Bearblog and Hugo are popular ones. Then you can host your site anywhere and don't have to worry about security problems.

kimyuhan•28m ago

are their security systems better than wp

kaikai•17m ago

A static site is much less vulnerable to security issues.

al_borland•6m ago

Bearblog is a service, not a static site generator one can use like Hugo.

From the Bearblog GitHub:

> Bear Blog has been built as a platform and not as an individual blog generator. It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn't possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog.

Jekyll would an alternative for Hugo.

dd-sharma•1h ago

I love using WP for my blog and I've a self-hosted version. In your question "new websites for beginner" indicates that the user is a beginner and wants to build websites. If websites have simple and static content that don't involve any serious stuff (e.g. e-commerce) then WP is probably ok. But for serious work i won't use it.

anitroves•1h ago

What would be your choice for serious work then

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