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Between these triple-dashed lines, you can set predefined variables (see below for a reference) or even create custom ones of your own. These variables will then be available for you to access using Liquid tags both further down in the file and also in any layouts or includes that the page or post in question relies on.
UTF-8 Character Encoding Warning If you use UTF-8 encoding, make sure that no BOM header characters exist in your files or very, very bad things will happen to Jekyll. This is especially relevant if you’re running Jekyll on Windows. Front Matter Variables Are Optional If you want to use Liquid tags and variables but don’t need anything in your front matter, just leave it empty! The set of triple-dashed lines with nothing in between will still get Jekyll to process your file. (This is useful for things like CSS and RSS feeds!) Predefined Global VariablesPermalink
There are a number of predefined global variables that you can set in the front matter of a page or post. Getting a music event to market with a smaller list of things that can go wrong than with WP
WordPress was created to be a supercharged blogging platform and not a content management platform. It was only ever designed as a blog platform, and then, over the years, more and more plugins got built for it. All of a sudden, now, it has turned into a big CMS platform that everybody talks about. Ultimately, it is not an enterprise-level CMS platform. WordPress has its place in terms of solving some time and cost issues, which small businesses might have. But if you are serious about your business and you think it is going to scale, then I would suggest choosing an enterprise-level CMS platform and not WordPress. WordPress does work to a certain point, but it lacks a lot of inherent functionality, which I feel a CMS platform should have. It is inadequate in terms of the front-end quality and the user experience that your customers get when they look at a website. In my opinion, a CMS platform should be inherently secure, yet in WordPress, you have to install at least two plugins in order to make sure that it is secure. That clearly says WordPress is not a serious CMS platform, especially if you are serious about your business.
Why do many WordPress users say that WordPress security is terrible? Well, this is because they use an older version of PHP, which is pretty dated. There are security vulnerabilities in those versions of PHP, and the fact that WordPress supports those older PHP versions makes WordPress more vulnerable to the security issues that were present in those old PHP versions. Many plugins and themes are usually the culprits of having security flaws in WordPress. And that is what happens when you have a large and open community like WordPress is, where anybody can make a plugin. There is no real, verified publisher process or anything like that. You will have plugins and themes that have security issues with them, and it is completely up to the developer to maintain those. Therefore, WordPress has a terrible security flag. Finally, WordPress is just a major target for hackers simply because it also occupies over 40% of the Internet. It is pretty easy to find WordPress sites regularly and then just make it your target because you can find lists of security vulnerabilities of WordPress plugins out there, and you know hackers will find those to exploit the websites that are using those vulnerable plugins.
WordPress sites are indeed slow. The WordPress codebase can be considered bloated and dated, so when people find that out, they say WordPress is slow. It has many bloated themes and plugins that are widely used. WordPress is not slow out of the box, there is nothing about the 2021 themes that I would consider that makes it a slow website. You can load up those themes on any decent host and you will have a pretty fast site. But where I think the real problem is that many WordPress sites are slow because many bloated plugins and themes make it slow. Themes that you buy from ThemeForest, usually you have to do a lot with that theme to cover a broad user base. WordPress has to do all the calculations to figure out how the site should be rendered, so WordPress deserves the stamp of being slow at its core, but it is slower because of what people typically do on top of WordPress themes and plugins.
There are thousands of plugins out there for WordPress. Many of them are built by very good programmers. Those plugins do not have a problem, but thousands of plugins are developed by programmers who have very bad programming habits. Now, do you want a website built on WordPress with a plugin installed by somebody with lousy programming habits? Because the likelihood is that if you install those plugins, they will break the rest of your website. And if you are not a developer, you will not be able to fix it. What this tends to mean is that those plugins probably contain lots of errors, poor site functionalities, they don’t meet standard’s compliance. All of these things have importance when it comes to search engine optimization. Ultimately, what does Google think of your website, and what do your customers think of your website? If it is not standard compliant, if it is not accessible, if it is not responsive, Google is going to mark your website down. Do you really want that with your website? I have seen so many, I would say 99% of the websites out there, WordPress websites specifically, have all of these issues with them: standards compliance, accessibility, responsiveness because of the plugins they use.
Another reason why building a website on WordPress is a bad idea because you may know upgrades are not always about improvements, sometimes they cause errors and website crashes. So, you have to test all the new features before installing the updates not the best way to spend your time. And sometimes, there are multiple major WordPress releases in a month, but obviously, upgrading the website numerous times in a month would be very risky.
Another downside of WordPress is related to search engine optimization. WordPress positions itself as this SEO friendly platform, but it gives you only the basic optimization. If you want to have more than that, you have to download special SEO plugins that may slow down your site’s loading speed. Sitemaps are an important part of SEO, and WordPress is known for messing up with sitemaps and tagging. You will anyways have to hire an SEO specialist if you are working on a WordPress website. You cannot be dependent only on the SEO plugins, they are not enough to make you rank on top in Google.
That is the point that might kill Wordpress for you. The more plugins you use, the worse your WP site becomes.
Our team has a decent experience working with Wordpress websites in the past and to speak honestly, this platform is the most vulnerable one. Among all services that provide CMS-based solutions, WordPress accounted for 90 percent of all hacked CMS sites (source).
Occasionally there will be massive updates to Wordpress core that might break a plugin you have or two plugins might conflict with each other. And again you need to waste your time or pay for freelancers to fix unfixable things.
Just imagine that we are creating a niche site:
Start with a creating a template that you can not duplicate by doing a copy paste Fire off dozens of post requests for 5,10 or 20 niche sites Reduplicate your static niche template (it will crush at least once, trust us) Wait up to 5 months for the traffic to build up What a milestone to do! No hesitations that is doable on Wordpress but nowhere near as painless and fast as static.
Static Site Generators go with JAMstack tool and in most cases we use optimal component-based structure. What does it mean? It is incredibly easy to mass duplicate and it’s optimized for speed, SEO, ad placement and a beautiful aesthetic.
Deployment is also not the hardest thing to do and after few hours you have a new site ready on a hosting like Netlify.