The complicated futility of WordPress
I&#x27;ve been working with WordPress for a long time and have run a blogging network built on Wordpress since 2005-ish. Over the last few years, it&#x27;s felt like I&#x27;ve been swimming upstream fighting against WordPress as they have tried to morph into a general website publishing tool (in order to compete with Wix, SquareSpace, etc) rather than their initial blogging roots. Security has never been a WordPress strong point and things are still terrible today with a constant stream of backdoored plugins and themes being available. The Gutenberg editor has been a disaster and now the full-site editing looks like it will generate the same type of spaghetti-HTML that the other page builders have been doing for years. It&#x27;s all too much for me now and I&#x27;m keen to get out of the Automattic&#x2F;WordPress ecosystem.<p>One option is ClassicPress which has forked v4 of WordPress but I&#x27;m not 100% confident that they will stick around. Apart from that, there are limited options out there that can replace the multisite features of WordPress. All I know is that the future of WordPress will be what Automattic want to do with it and I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;ll care if nobody outside of wordpress dot com uses it.