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Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django.

by stepmr on 8/15/11, 9:41 PM with 8 comments

<p>A friend works for a large magazine with highly trafficked website. They're looking to re-develop their site and have someone on staff who handles their micro-sites, which are mostly very small static or Wordpress projects. I'm a Django developer, and mentioned I thought Django would be the most natural fit amongst web frameworks for their transition away from their aging perl-based publishing system.</p>

<p>However, he mentioned they are leaning towards Wordpress simply because of familiarity with the "brand". The site is fairly complex, but could probably be done with Wordpress. I won't be working on this project, but I think it would be a shame for this to happen. Because I'm totally biased and hate making things in WP.</p>

<p>So, to better prepare my case, I thought I'd ask HN to see if anyone had any opinions as to the advantages of using web-frameworks like Django over Wordpress for a web publishing project.</p>

  • by byoung2 on 8/15/11, 10:02 PM

    I think it would be a shame for this to happen. Because I'm totally biased and hate making things in WP

    You shouldn't let your bias affect their decision to choose something that's right for them. If they don't have any Python/Django developers on staff, it could be tricky to maintain a site developed on that platform. Since they have a few sites on WordPress already and have a staff member who is familiar with WordPress, that may be the best route for them. They'll have an easy time customizing the site with plugins with WordPress. I'm not sure if that would also be the case with Django.

  • by swiharta on 8/16/11, 12:25 AM

    Got PHP developers? Why not an MVC framework in PHP. Using Wordpress for anything but a blog is a disaster.