Should you use Static Site Generators over Wordpress?

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[JayMaverick]

I've been fighting to get decent speed out of Wordpress for years. Getting real tired of fighting against bloat. And I just want to host a blog ffs. Jekyll is looking like a great option these days.

[videoklubi]

Static pages also work well for a small site which you keep in your own server. Then you don't have to worry about constantly patching/upgrading WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.

[tj]

I think the right question is do you need WordPress + database or can you get by with a static site and 3rd party apis. In many cases you don't especially for the typical client site. By being static you save on hosting and complexity and have a more performant and secure site

[data]

I use Publii, that is a fine static site generator and has a GUI. It is a program on the desktop. It runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. It is Open Source

[plaguesofwrath]

Static site generators are far superior to CMS for 99% of applications. Unless you're building an e-commerce site or a membership site, there's no reason to build on a bloated CMS. Static sites are (as you said in the video) more light weight, more secure, and way faster. Another benefit you didn't mention is there's nothing to keep updated, and if something breaks on the site, it's much, much simpler to troubleshoot and fix. Not to mention that for front end, only Modx competes for simplicity of developing for. I can adapt any site to Jekyll, for example, and I don't need to fuss with any outdated php nonsense. Adapting a design to WordPress? Yeah no thanks. Way too much of a pain.

[markgonsalves]

Working in web hosting, from personal experience i can say that wordpress gets hacked and infected a lot and it also breaks all the time(critical error) but the main issue with worpress is that its just not scalable. It takes way too much resources from the server. That's why i would recommend any type of static setup for basic websites. You won't realise it in the beginning but when the website grows, it gets worse and one day it crashes, and they only way to get out of is to throw more money at it (more expensive server).

[videoklubi]

Is there an option in WordPress, Joomla or Drupal to use static pages? Looks like it would be a cool extra feature to have. Wonder if they have included it.

[GDScriptDude]

The last time I used WordPress, there was a popular cache plugin that essentially aimed to serve pages as static content.

[paulholsters]

Planning to use HUGO for my website ( project documentation site)

[hattrickster]

One question. What about caching? It seems like this on it's own should solve a lot of the problems with dynamic site generation. Obviously it won't help when new visitors request a given page, but if the most common scenario is that visitors are going to request the same pages 2 or more times, then a lot of the server processing can be eliminated by caching the page.


Actually, thinking about this some more, it seems like static site generation could be considered a kind of server-side caching. But it might be more accurate to call it "caching in reverse" because you're creating everything before the resource is requested, not after.

[akira_asahi]

Thank you for the video. I am grateful for your time and contribution. Kind regards, Akira.

[senantiasa]

He was asking about JAMStack which you didn't answer...

[MyALPHAguy]

How about to use the Search and Replace function on an HTML editor to update links on hundreds of pages?

[awreckingball]

Would a static site be easy to transform into dedicated app?

[willysnowman]

I am no expert, but Word press gave me the impression it was for those who like to driving automatic transmissions with no arms.

[davidmirv]

You can do eCommerce with static site generators, you can also have very complex data model relationships with the graphql backend

[rossthemusicandguitarteacher]

Great video as always. I am currently experimenting with nuxt for ssg.

[solomonjenkins]

so with a static site generator, you wouldn't really have a front end like angular or w/e would you?

[Jollyprez]

Rapid prototyping is about all I use static site generator for.

[vasiovasio]

Every dynamic site can be "converted" to static very easy - just put CDN on front of him :)