When you’re eager to convert Joomla websites into WordPress websites because Joomla is that bad. I mean, it’s just awful.

If you're converting it anyway, is Wordpress really the right thing to move to?

@AlmondSauce Yes. We have over 100 websites and massive amounts of content flowing into them. Only a few are Joomla (and nobody remembers exactly why). Having no CMS at all and writing static pages would be pure hell on earth because the content team only deals with CMSes. I know there are other CMSes but WP is the one I’m most familiar with and why I was hired. Not about to change that many sites to something completely different. Management would think I’d lost my mind.

If you’re redoing them, might as well pick something decent.

I'll wait for you to say the same thing about WordPress in the future

Also I'ma get you to 10k

@DarKneT Ha! Thanks. As a WP aficionado, I’m all in with it. Have been since 2007. At least with WP I can find the PHP file that’s responsible for rendering the footer. In 6 months of Joomla I still haven’t found it.

I'd also check out a static site generator for the use cases where that makes sense from a client POV. Shoving WP up these clients' asses just because you know WP would suck.

@Fast-Nop They already use and prefer WP. So do I. It’s not the worst thing in the world and is certainly better than Joomla or trying to run everything as custom coded static sites or building and maintaining your own CMS. WP runs 40% of websites that use a CMS, including the UN, Bloomberg, and even many of NASA’s websites.

@stackodev Yeah and Windows runs 80% of the desktop or so. Btw., there are even large magazines who run static - and no, you don't handcode each page, obviously, because that would be stupid.