I'm slowly un-WordPressing my website.

[michaelc@scholar.social]

I'm slowly un-WordPressing my website. Just did a simple page where I re-coded the page in basic HTML. Looks essentially the same as the old WordPress version.* Comparison:

New: 1349 characters
Old: 43145 characters

* The new version now also has alt text on the image and a additional "we don't track you and don't use AI" statement at the bottom. Without those it'd only be 811 characters.

Why again was I using WordPress rather of my own brain and skills?

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#noai #webdev

[annieg@mementomori.social]

@michaelc WP can be a real boon if you a) are actually using it to blog like it was original designed, or b) are making a site that can benefit from ways to use 'posts' - I.e. bits of content - plus tags (plus maybe other labeling/organizing schemes) to serve up content on pages in multiple ways through careful categorization. Shortcodes can be very useful for this... but for a plain web page, 🤷.

[michaelc@scholar.social]

@AnnieG Yes, of course that's true. If you are using lots of posts and categories and tags it makes that easier. This was just a simple site with a handful of static pages and yet I automatically (see what I did there?) chose WordPress.