The pros and cons to using WordPress (in my opinion).
PROS
- Pre-made themes
- No need to learn CSS or styling, and you are able to shop for thousands of different themes at the click of a button, which often update depending on the site visitor’s device.
- Support for technical issues
- Since WordPress is a very popular website editor/creator, there was tons of knowledge and help out there for most issues I experienced.
- Block editor
- If I already had a “look” in mind for one of my posts, I could use the block editor to bring that vision to life. It offers many different types of blocks so you can integrate anything from text to a YouTube video easily and format nicely.
- Plugins
- You can typically find a plugin for almost any features you need on your site, without having to do any coding at all.
CONS
- Plugins (not just a pro!)
- I found as the weeks went on, many of the plugins interfered with my website’s appearance or each others’ functionalities.
- Frequent updates
- WordPress gets updated often, and some Themes and Plugins cannot keep up, leaving their functionality in the dust.
- Popups
- In the admin page, there are many popups that appear on each visit, even after hiding them the first time.
BIGGEST DIFFICULTY
It took me a while to figure out that my website or posts kept breaking because of all the plugins I had installed, and that it wasn’t a different issue. I think a lot of them could not work with each other or my theme, and caused my site to go haywire often. The only way I could fix this was to deactivate most of them each week, and I spent a lot of time testing different deactivation combinations to maintain my site security.