If you were building out a marketing site (designed to be used by marketing people) would you still turn to Wordpress?<p>I've seen a fair few projects spun up on Squarespace/Webflow/Craft, but none of them seem to have the same quick on boarding and up and running feeling of Wordpress. What did you choose for your marketing site and why?
> Is wordpress still the go to fool-proof CMS?<p>Yes. Wordpress is more customisable and extendable than the rest.<p>Squarespace, Webflow and Craft are either proprietary, have huge hype by newcomers (especially Webflow) or have missing features that make you want to go back to Wordpress.<p>I am sure that you can make a basic marketing site in either of these but you also mentioned 'CMS' and Wordpress is the easiest and the most extendable.
"designed to be used by marketing people"<p>Yes. A resounding Yes. You can try to do it in other cool things but if you want to build a serious marketing site which can be managed by non technical people, WordPress is the way to go. I am a technical founder who runs a SAAS and I have been playing around with things like Hugo, Netlify, headless CMS etc but WordPress kees beating them due to the speed, maintainability and time to market factor.<p>Don't go crazy on Plugins especially shitty 3rd party and you will be fine. Don't listen to people who dislike PHP and all that.
Long time Wordpress user here. Over time I realized that WP can get very insecure the more plugins and bells and whistles you add to it. Plugins just increase the attack surface of it, so I only used tried and tested and community vetted plugins, and also use no more than 5 plugins to be safe. With Squarespace etc you don't have to worry about security which is why I'm thinking of using it eventually when I can afford it.
I use craftcms for new sites. It’s free for a single admin and is a CMS and not an ancient blog engine hacked to act as one.<p>Templating is straightforward.<p>No 1-click install themes but also no inscrutable unchanged-able spaghetti code.<p>It’s just a clean predictable and reliable dev process out of the box.
Anyone used Strapi? Or wordpress + advanced custom fields + wp-graphql? I like the look of Sanity.io but it's not open source / self-hostable.
My only gripe about modern wordpress is the number of screen builders for themes. It was easier in the past where you selected the theme, tweaked it a little.