What WordPress is good at
WordPress lets you log in and change your own pages, publish posts and add features with plugins. If you want to update your site every day, run a busy blog or sell lots of products online, it can make a lot of sense.
The upkeep nobody mentions
A WordPress site is made of several moving parts: WordPress itself, a theme and usually a handful of plugins. Each one gets updates, often to fix security problems. Skip them and the site can break or become an easy target. Apply them and something occasionally stops working. Either way, someone needs to keep an eye on it.
Hosting, backups and the security certificate need sorting too, and they’re easy to forget until something goes wrong.
The simpler option
Most small business websites have a few jobs: explain what you do, show your work and make it easy to get in touch. A static website does that well. Each page is built as a ready-made file and served from a global network, so it loads quickly and there are no plugins to update or log-in page to attack.
The trade-off is that you don’t edit it yourself. On my plans, you send me the change and I make it for you, within your plan’s included time.
When WordPress is the better choice
- You want to log in and edit pages yourself, often.
- You’re publishing lots of articles or running an online shop.
- You need a feature that a particular plugin already does well.
If that’s you, WordPress (or another system you can edit) is worth it. Just budget the time, or the support, to keep it updated.
Not sure which fits?
Tell me what your website needs to do and I’ll give you a straight answer, even if that’s something other than one of my plans.
Ask me directly