[GNC] Proposal to Redesign the GnuCash Website with Wordpress

[Ken Marshall]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 01:22:32PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> Thank you for your offer.
> 
> I agree with you the project's website is showing its age and can use some love.
> 
> I'm maintaining a wordpress site in another context myself. From that experience, I don't 
> lean towards wordpress any more though.
> For our needs I'd rather have a revamped site implemented using a static website 
> generator. So far I only have experimented with Hugo as example, but I know there are 
> more.
> 
> In my experience a CMS like wordpress brings quite a bit of additional maintenance. It's a 
> huge code base of which we'd only use a small part, but which leave much room for 
> uncaught bugs.
> 
> That is however just my 2 cents as a currently inactive gnucash dev. I'd be interested to 
> hear what the others think of this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert

Hi,

I have to agree with Geert. Wordpress and other heavy-weight CMS carry
both an additional maintenance burden as well as an additional resource
toll and site performance impact. Managing the bugs/patching requires a
lot of trained resources that are typically not availabe to an open
source product.

Regards,
Ken