On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
When working with WordPress, can anyone recommend a trustworthy place to go for plugin recommendations?<p>The problems I find with WordPress are:<p>- WordPress core is missing a ton of stuff you&#x27;d expect to be there so you have to turn to plugins.<p>- It&#x27;s hard to assess the quality of plugins. They conflict with each other, kill page speed, they break as WordPress is upgraded, and there&#x27;s tons of bad advice you have to navigate around (I find this problem with PHP in general, where top voted answers&#x2F;suggestions are bad so you need to keep your wits about you more-so than other communities).<p>Generally when I&#x27;m fixing WordPress websites, I&#x27;m stripping out all plugins (I&#x27;ve seen over 50 on one site before!) that have been added by non-technical users, then trying to find the simplest way with the fewest plugins to get the functionality back to what it was.<p>You can get pretty far with just ACF, a contact form plugin, an optimisation plugin (how is page caching still not built into WordPress?), and coding small features into themes directly.