Wordpress

as a CMS (Content Management System)

The problem is that Wordpress was built as a blogging platform and not a content management system. This means that it can be difficult to manage content in a way that is not blog post centric. On top of that, Wordpress can be vulrnerable to security issues and maintenance including constant updates for plugins and themes.

Our client Robway was facing these issues and wanted to start fresh and had a limited timeframe in which to build a new website. They had already invested time into getting their almost a hundred products into a Wordpress Woocommerce store and didn't want to have to move these to a new system.

Instead of throwing away all that work, we decided to build a new website using Nuxt.js and pull in the product data from the Wordpress API. This allowed us to build a new website with a completely overhalled design system that was fast, secure and easy to manage without any overhead for the client.

Removing the contstraints of developing the front-end in Wordpress opened up the possibilities of implementing a modern design system and technology stack.

Userbilty and speed of the website is massively improved and maintainabilty of the code is also improved by having the entire front end framework in one programing language (Javascript) framework (Vue.js) instead of the multiple required to develop a Wordpress theme (PHP & Javascript).

Another issue with Wordpress is with it's editing experience. Most website developed in Wordpress make it difficult to see changes made to content inline. Each change has to be previewed in another window.

An alternative to Wordpress is the Sanity content management system. It is a headless CMS that allows implementation of a much more intuitive editing experience where content editors can see their changes live and in context.