Which CMS do you try to avoid as a developer?
Also, which one do you like to use?
I think every developer needs to deal with a CMS system sooner or later. And I'm pretty sure most of the time it wasn't the best experience. I tried / worked with at least 6-7 CMS systems in the last 10 years and most of them were ... well, not so easy to work with :)
My answers:
avoid: WP (because of the quality of the codebase)
like: dato, contentful (because headless, good API)
I'm really curious about your experience :)
Avoid: WP heard to many horror stories with it, and I see the results daily when I do speed tests on websites.
Like: Django works great :)
Wordpress, will even hand-code the pages myself to avoid it. Still looking for a decent (simple) CMS
Bluedit CMS is pretty cool. It is less heavy than Grav CMS. Both are flat-file CMSes. No database to manage.
I agree with you, despite that wp is running in 30% of the websites, we should avoid it. I think that the best option is a CMS coded in JS and following the JAMstack ideology, they are blazing fast and you can acces a backend through an API. Good options are: Contentful, Prismic and Netlify CMS. Also, you can combine them with a static site generator such as Gatsby for winning more performance and programmatically create pages.
I agree.
I agree how slow WP can be on normal hosting providers but if they are hosted in WP optimized servers then the performance should be fine think. I have used a lot of CMSs but I always come back to WordPress for simple site and blog solution. There are a lot of resources and readily available plugins for almost anything.
I agree with you. I see so many people hating on WP, some are legit and some are just industry shit show standard at this point. The fact is that the majority of businesses do not need more than a WP website.
Have you ever used WP together with other people like devs, editors, translators?
I used to work with popular health blog jessicasepel.com here in Australia. I. My self am Dev guy. We had couple of editors but no translation in the website.
I've just migrated my site (https://dailystate.me) to Ghost. Love the simplicity, and the fact that the templates are made in handlebars, so easy to extend. Does both static pages and blog one same domain, good for SEO.
Which cms did you use before? Which one you avoid at all cost?
Wordpress
Avoid WP, for the same reasons that you mentioned. Looking a bit more into the RebelMouse (RebelCMS). Their founder was the CTO that built The Huffington Post and several national accounts currently use it (United Airlines, Penske).
I've never heard of RebelMouse. I'll check it out.
RebelCMS vs. WP VIP
https://www.rebelmouse.com/wordpress-vip-alternative-2401656056.html
LOL. Yeah, WordPress. I'd also put Drupal on that list.