WordPress does indeed boast a great number of advantages: not only is it supported by a strong team of developers with many years of expertise, it also has a steadily growing community of users, all of whom are very active in helping to develop the system, with new themes and plugins emerging all the time. Users’ ever-changing requirements are addressed promptly, leading to new functions being implemented. In recent years, developers have improved a great deal of functions, including allocation of rights, mobile support, shop features, SEO functions, and seamless social media integration. Even though most of these new features are not part of the software in its standard format, there are some updates that can be added to the base code. The once relatively primitive base code has become incredibly complex over time.
With the system growing exponentially over the years, it’s now completely oversized for smaller web projects, such as blogs, which WordPress was originally created for. This leads to problems with performance, among other things. Technical problems like this negatively affect the user experience, often resulting from incompatible or incorrectly programmed plugins and themes. Additionally, the use of too many extensions leads to longer loading times, a characteristic that WordPress has in common with just some of the available alternative CMS platforms.
As well as the increased loading time, there are also concerns regarding WordPress’s security measures. The CMS software’s selection of plugins and templates is so huge that it’s not possible for the team of developers to verify all public extensions. Extensions are therefore potential gateways for cyber-attacks, and hackers can exploit the software’s popularity for their own malicious intentions. Free layouts and features often provide a way for hackers to infiltrate systems with their malware.