Do You Really Need WordPress?
In this opening chapter, Tom Kloos shares his journey from building websites in the early 2000s with HTML editors like CoffeeCup to becoming a longtime WordPress advocate. After nearly two decades of using WordPress for blogs, businesses, memberships, downloads, and e-commerce sites, he began to notice a growing problem: increasing complexity. While WordPress remains a powerful platform, many websites simply don't need the overhead that comes with modern WordPress installations. This chapter explores how that realization led to a search for a simpler approach to publishing and ultimately inspired the creation of FoundryPress.
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