WordPress VS Kirby

Many website builders today are designed to be user-friendly, allowing even non-tech-savvy individuals to build decent websites. Platforms like Wix, Squarespace, Carrd, and WordPress (with themes and plugins) offer powerful DIY solutions.

I do not believe it is legally "GPL v2 or later" at all. The original b2 license was GPL v2. There was no or later version option in the original b2 license. Given that WordPress is a derivative work, it has to keep the same or compatible license. Which "GPL v2 or later" is not.

Note how the original license is GPL v2 at [0], then the "or later" header is added much later at [1] seemingly out of nowhere.

[0] - https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blame/04c9051a7d765cb...

[1] - https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8cbd92f9f8269a...

I'm a WordPress (WP) developer and avid user of WP Engine. I just tested some of my WordPress sites hosted on WP Engine and can confirm that it's currently not possible to take some actions that pull data from https://wordpress.org/, such as not updating WP plugins or installing new WP plugins.

I'm furious at Matt Mullenweg and Auttomatic, as they control wordpress.org as Auttomatic hosts wordpress.org and one or both of them probably decided to block some important WordPress features on WP Engine servers. Also below is text from the https://wordpressfoundation.org/ homepage:

[quote]

Powering more than 40% of the top 10 million websites on the Internet today according to WikiPedia, WordPress continues to be one of the most popular content management systems in the world. Though its core components remain primarily PHP and MySQL/MariaDB, a lot has changed in the past 20 years in terms of infrastructure and hosting options.

To get started working, first of all, you need to install Wordpress Zip from Wordpress.org and place it in the htdocs if you are using XAMPP or www if you are using WAMP or MAMP, this way if you want to test WordPress locally but if you want to go online directly, often you're going to use a hosting, for instance, Namecheap or Goddady, the majority of them use Softaculous it's a commercial script library that automates the installation of commercial and open source web applications in your website hosting.

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After a few years building on WO I switched to https://getkirby.com/ and never looked back.

Not sure if this is what you’re after but give https://getkirby.com/ a try

Personally think https://getkirby.com is the entry to beat but I guess it’s just because I’m used to it and it works incredibly well for my use case.

Check out KirbyCMS. A PHP based files-only CMS. Can also be used as headless CMS. Works on most shared hosts and doesn't need a database. You'll have to do some basic PHP for the templates, though.

I guess it depends what you need to build. I used to use Wordpress for all my personal and client projects but I then moved to Kirby[0] and I couldn’t be happier.

But I think it highly depends on what kind of projects you work on.

[0] https://getkirby.com/

I can recommend Kirby (https://getkirby.com/), a flat file PHP CMS. It’s fast, has a panel to update data and can be hosted on any basically any PHP host. Just use the quite simple PHP-templates and add CSS & JS like you already know how to do. No need to complicate things.

PHP has a lot of top tier CMSes. IMHO bunch of them are even better than Statamic. Craft CMS (https://craftcms.com/) is a lot more mature database based CMS. Kirby (https://getkirby.com/) is better at flat-file and has a lot better admin interface. Twill (https://twillcms.com/) is better integrated in Laravel and is fully open-source. Statamic mostly feels like it's sitting besides Laravel and they call themselves Laravel based for marketing.