Sometimes, the one that seems best can be a real problem on the face of it. Similar is the case with Wordpress; it is popular, powerful and in demand of every user but have some disadvantages over the other tools. Yes! You read that right; the user can get to the plateau of frustration and insecurity while dealing with the functions of this tool.
Given below are several disadvantages of using Wordpress as your choice of Content Management System that after reading may change your opinion about the tool.
UPDATES: Wordpress can be better once updated. It is a fact, which is tested by my team personally, and many other users, but the process of updating is the worst of all. My websites used certain formatting, which was compatible with WordPress before, now the problem with this tool is that it does not take into account any of its user's customizations or plugins. This simply means that if your web site's formatting does not match with the latest rollout of the tool, your website could crash into nothingness without any prior warning. Also, as soon as you are finished installing, there are a thousand updates waiting your way that will consume all your precious time and may take hours and hours to install.
The processing of the database is prolonged which will certainly waste your time to process the data you have created and change of format or theme from the installation may erase some of your data. Therefore, this means that a backup is necessary now and then to ensure the safety and security of your personal data. You might think that you will keep your data safe by updating the tool regularly, but you forget that with every update, the size of the tool increases exponentially, which makes the system slower and sloppier.
SECURITY: Let me be clear with the position of Wordpress in the market, it is the King of all the Content Management Systems and sits on the top of the list. Now, when someone is at the top, everyone aspires to become like you and everyone has an open eye towards you that means you have to be ready for any kinds of threats or vulnerabilities coming your way. As far as the security on Wordpress is concerned, it should be dealt with precautions, as soon as possible.
In the world of computers and internet, the main threats come from potential hackers with devious intentions who create bugs and worms and all sorts of malicious viruses to destroy the personal data of users from Wordpress' database. This malware can be very dangerous for the tool as well as for its users. They risk their personal data trusting the tool, and it really is frustrating when it fails to protect that data. In the opinion of nerds, this backdoor entry has somewhere been allowed by the major use of plugins in the system. Wordpress majorly relies on plugins for its functions which allows well-educated hackers to slid their way into the system spreading their virus to destroy the data. To ensure that this does not happen, WordPress has to increase their security and has to be on proper vigilance against any such virus threatening the personal data of its users.
A bunch of add-on software and steps may increase the protection of your website or data like a security scanner, SFTP encryptions, file permissions, removing footprints and even changing the table prefix, etc. Constant updates in the tool are mandatory, not updating the tool comes in with another set of problems.
SLOW: Wordpress is a widely used tool which is used by everyone, everywhere, but this does not give it a reason to become slow or sluggish. The significant use of heavy plugins and busy databases are the reason for the tool to become slow eventually. Having your Management system to work efficiently, you have to make sure that your system has a capable CPU to draw power from along with proper RAM and storage. Not just this, on user's end also the lack of reliable CDN and hosting, huge images or too many post revisions may also affect the sluggishness of the tool.
Wordpress, instead of using an efficient and capable support community, has an open space community, which invites a lot of traffic to the website, creating more lousiness in the system.
SUPPORT: The problem with Wordpress is that there is no ‘Support' page on the tool. The bad support page, which pops up, is a result of a teenager's mind who created a blog function putting in function over function to what is developed of it today. WordPress cherishes non-technical users who may not provide with proper accurate or technical solutions to the problems, but it is assured that they will provide with a non-certified easiest quickest solution to a problem like installing free plug-ins to solve an issue. Resistance is not so much liked by most users of WordPress or any other organization. Every individual wants his tasks to be done without a stoppage or a barrier, which, is not practically possible.
There are problems on this support page, which has no line-by-line answer with proper illustrations and steps. If a user has no prior knowledge about the technical aspects of WordPress, he may find himself in the stars. Thus, a proper support page with ethical and verified solutions need to be posted on WordPress.
NOT ALL PLUGINS WORK: being an open-source model of information, there are random anonymous people adding their personal information to post on their websites. For this purpose, they require plugins. The free plugin section of Wordpress contains all sorts of poorly built and well-built plugins, which may or may not work. Wordpress should have all of the available plugins to work in order to maintain its high status in the market. This unreliability of ‘might work or might not work' is frustrating on some level.
CRASH AND LOG IN ISSUES: Opening the dashboard to access your essential files and there you find,' WordPress Login Temporarily Disabled.' How would you feel? That rage when you cannot even access your own files due to some server error is wild. The website crashes a lot too, with the ‘unable to log in to the dashboard until the block expires' message. A Content Management Tool of number one status on the Internet cannot afford to have such petty issues. I rarely see any other top website crashing so often and displaying errors like these. This can be because of many reasons, out of which server hacking, server not responding and ISP issue are most probable. How can a user rely on a tool, which cannot even depend on itself? Sharing personal information on websites like these is clearly not satisfactory for many users, but again it also is for most of them.
GETS BLOATED WITH TIME: Wordpress does get bloated with passing time. For the first months, every process will be speedy and effective, but with passing time, the processes start taking more time, the loading time increases, websites start to crash, and many other problems take place. All of this bloating in the tool takes place in critic's opinion because of its writing code, PHP.
PHP, which was also used to write the algorithms for Facebook and Tumblr. Not just this, in today's time, over eighty percent of the web is made of PHP. It has its own pros and cons.
Another reason, which could be the reason for its bloating, is the size of its code. Most HTML codes and themes are bloated in nature. Users need to install minifiers, which reduces the size of the bloated software to make it run effectively and efficiently. Thus, with time, WordPress gets crowded with images and other multimedia data, which makes the system run slower and sluggish.
These are the main seven disadvantages of using Wordpress as a Content Management System (CMS). In my highest opinion, I blame the use of PHP for coding WordPress in such a primary and elementary programming language. According to a critic, PHP is used to teach non-programmers, how to do programming. It is a very essential and crucial programming language in the history of programmers, but slowly and steadily, things can become better if proper measures are taken to make the top position seem worth. Of course, there are other factors discussed above which make Wordpress, not the best option for CMS, but looking at the websites developed from WordPress, its benefits are way more than its disadvantages.
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