Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.
The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.
Some weeks ago I learned about ClassicPress: https://www.classicpress.net/
Interesting, I tried the migrator plugin on my basic 2 page site and none of my plugins or theme are compatible with ClassicPress. It wants me to drop all the way back to the 2017 base theme.
Great for a new site I suppose.
I think it’s maybe not for everyone nor suitable for every project. But I think it’s a cool idea and maybe i will use it for rather conservative projects.
I actually don’t mind Gutenberg, but I fucking hate how I have to do everything with buttons and interfaces and all the paid half baked plugins I have to either spend a week developing myself or pay 40 dollars a month just to Access it for a year in a single domain or site and have to make botched multi language multi site networks that can’t even effectively share a theme and an awful theme that I was told was good but I can’t even set a fucking sidebar so I go into the fucking theme folder and MODİFY TBE FUCKİNG THEME MFSELF FUCK J SHOULD’VE JUST USED HUGO
Yeah, me too. Everything is a subscription nowadays, I hate it just so much.