I've used wordpress a lot. I've had to write custom themes and plugins and do a lot of hacking of existing themes and plugins. I definitely wouldn't call myself an enthusiast though. There are few...
I've used wordpress a lot. I've had to write custom themes and plugins and do a lot of hacking of existing themes and plugins. I definitely wouldn't call myself an enthusiast though. There are few things I'm less enthusiastic about than PHP.
I've always taken a far lower level approach than Duplicator Pro though. It's been a while, but I've just exported my SQL database, unserialized it, did a find-and-replace using a normal text editor, reserialized it, and stuffed it on another site. Never used wpcli. All these fancy powerful interfaces for dealing specifically with wordpress data are really just frontends for existing tools that work on all sites that use SQL databases. They just give them a fancy name and shiny dashboard and try to sell them for $50 on themeforest or whatever. If you can't tell, I'm more than a little cynical about the wordpress ecosystem. It's like this insulated cult that doesn't realize how close they are to understanding the underlying tech, and instead never gets their hands dirty, wants to do everything through a gui.
Even people who write themes and plugins do so using premade frameworks where if you want to make a theme generator to generate themes, someone has made a theme generator generator, abstracting everything to hell and back, automatically creating ten layers of shim PHP files that do nothing but call a single function to call the next file. It's infuriating tbh.
I've used wordpress a lot. I've had to write custom themes and plugins and do a lot of hacking of existing themes and plugins. I definitely wouldn't call myself an enthusiast though. There are few things I'm less enthusiastic about than PHP.
I've always taken a far lower level approach than Duplicator Pro though. It's been a while, but I've just exported my SQL database, unserialized it, did a find-and-replace using a normal text editor, reserialized it, and stuffed it on another site. Never used wpcli. All these fancy powerful interfaces for dealing specifically with wordpress data are really just frontends for existing tools that work on all sites that use SQL databases. They just give them a fancy name and shiny dashboard and try to sell them for $50 on themeforest or whatever. If you can't tell, I'm more than a little cynical about the wordpress ecosystem. It's like this insulated cult that doesn't realize how close they are to understanding the underlying tech, and instead never gets their hands dirty, wants to do everything through a gui.
Even people who write themes and plugins do so using premade frameworks where if you want to make a theme generator to generate themes, someone has made a theme generator generator, abstracting everything to hell and back, automatically creating ten layers of shim PHP files that do nothing but call a single function to call the next file. It's infuriating tbh.