WP recent releases
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I’m sorry if I bother here with my opinion, but when I see something wrong I’m not able to avoid to say the truth, and can’t see a better place than the WordPress forum.
Also my apologizes if with this comment I’m shocking someone’s sensitivity, but what I write is in defense of everyone’s time and job respect.Well, at beginning the idea of WP was good: to create a platform where possible to edit a website quickly and with main structure pre-built.
But recently step by step the authors’ idea of implementation took a wrong direction: for me nowadays WP is made only for those people that is not able (or doesn’t want) to create a personal website with his own codes.
I used WP four times and everytime to speed up the job: of course modifying many areas with CSS, js, and some lines in functions.php (where necessary and not affecting the structure).
unfortunately the WP strategy changed in last two years: I see that site made in 2017 (and where luckily I rejected to update WP) still work well, even with style inside pages and some code lines.
F.E. the autop filter (and recently the author’s efforts to avoid the filter removal with code lines) is the most stupid invention.
This idea of autoformatting all what created by the “user author” is not only a complication but also an unfair way to deal with customers … of course it is good for all those guys that cannot add they codes and just want to write a blog in wording language: to be correct, WP authors should add an escape way per each one that is unwilling to use their filters, a clear and clearly explained chance to disable the new added filter.
What they consider an “advantage” must be an option and not an “imposition” for users: this moreover because we are talking of improvements coming with updates. I mean that “I didn’t know before the update, so I could not decide in previous if use that theme or not”.
And WP also cannot say “that we must accept because in part it is a free service” (!!) … free of charge or not, they are involving the users’ time, work and efforts: SO THEY CANNOT PLAY WITH USERS’ RIGHT that his work must be respected and NOT changed after months of job done and website published.
For me this matter is a serious illecit of customers’ rights.
Also the daily updates: dozens of updates coming, a “job” to pass and install them (of course, saw the bad consequences, checking all one by one, which takes time) … it seems a “new game, not so professional, like playing with facebook or social networks”, while web communication should be a serious and professional matter.
Moreover when (e.g. my case) the website is not a simple blog, but a comm. site of a corporate which has no time or intention to “play around codes like a sort of hobby”, but focus is the turnover and the salary of the staff …
What I mean is that a website is quite always something very serious, involving money, peoples’ job, day life … not an hobby.
For all these reasons I probably made a mistake to choose WP recently, but for now continuing, not at all satisfied but only because “forced by the fact that to rebuild the 4 websites it’d take a long time loss which I cannot afford”.
I will try to “arrange solutions” like today, that passing to the 5.2 ver. I lost my mod for “header widget” (in functions.php): why should I spend my Sunday to fight to keep safe my previous codes? Luckily we all have a backup.
I’m talking also in interest of all those guys that make the plugins, and generously offer them for free online: WP does not show respect for their jobs too … dozens of plugins are abandoned because of some incautious updates of WP authors.
The solution? They are indeed free to do what they wish with their creation, but they should be “morally obliged to offer to users the chance to backward to previous stable versions, and without annoying with obsessive alerts regarding UNDESIRED UPDATES”.
Thank you to have read my opinion.
Mauro A. Vicariotto
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