How do I keep my boss from pitching WordPress to clients?

Explain the drawbacks and limitations of it. Plus the constant plugin maintenance you'll need to do to prevent it from being hacked.

Show a viable alternative. Most sites don't need a CMS, in my experience clients WANT them, but never end up making use of them then ask me to make updates for them.

what should he suggest instead?

Pitching Wordpress is not bad. Pitching Wordpress for everything and anything is bad.

@eirabie Well said.

WordPress isn't a solution for all problems. Create a base framework for the kind of requirements that you usually get and pitch that to your boss for use instead of WordPress for the next project. If the works well, go with it. It has to start somewhere.

👆 good idea!

make him feel the pain. force him to see you working on it. make him manually find a post in the database

@heyheni jekyll

@kristiandavid love Jekyll

@tytho that is good for business, though.

@noda that it is, if you enjoy Wordpress. I'm not one of those, but I know plenty who do.