[GNC] Proposal to Redesign the GnuCash Website with Wordpress

[G R Hewitt]

Frankly, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.


On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 at 17:05, Ken Marshall <ktm at rice.edu> wrote:

> 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
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