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It’s over… a HubSpot CMS developer’s “dear John” letter to WordPress
As a finally-full-time HubSpot CMS developer, this is our "dear John" breakup letter with WordPress.
5 regrets you’ll have paying for a Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline.
Considering cheaping out with a WordPress website over HubSpot CMS? Here are 5 regets you'll have paying for a WordPress website.
5 signs you’ve outgrown WordPress CMS
Your website shouldn't be breaking constantly and handicapping your marketing team. Here are a few signs that you've outgrown WordPress CMS.
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Breakups are the pits, aren’t they? But outgrowing something (or someone) you love happens all the time. Needs change, people grow apart and what served someone well for so long just doesn’t get the job done any longer. This is how we’ve been feeling about WordPress for quite some time. I’ve been teetering on the edge of dropping WordPress as a platform for over a year, but hadn’t quite pulled the plug. It’s no secret that many small businesses outgrow WordPress quickly, but previously I wanted to have an option for small businesses that might not have had the budget to move over to HubSpot CMS. But now? With CMS Starter being such a compelling option for small businesses? It’s time, once and for all, it’s time for us to break up with WordPress.
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As finally-full-time HubSpot CMS Developers, this break up has been a long time coming.
Here’s our Dear John letter to WordPress as a platform:
—------------------------------
Dear WordPress:
It was a love story like no other. For decades, you delivered flexible development that I couldn’t get anywhere else. You made dreams come true - and not just mine. You were the foundation by which I judged all other platforms and by and large all of them paled in comparison to your capabilities, for a website platform. They were endless, and I was in awe at my ability to deliver for my small business clients. In the style of Bette Middler, you were the wind beneath my wings in so many ways. We were the power couple, the most dynamic duo. You and I did some incredible things together.
But, maybe I was jaded, in some ways. Maybe I didn’t know what love was supposed to look like, because while we reached so many destinations together, the bumps along the way and after were increasingly noticeable. The shiny newness of everything I delivered with you came to a crashing halt as I encountered more and more prospects that weren’t maintaining you properly, developers whose “best” practices and coding was terrible, leaving clients open to attacks on their website and business. The increased downtime, the decreased page speed as a result of bloated websites patched up in far too many plugins.
Related: 5 Signs You’ve Outgrown WordPress CMS
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So much of our small business clients’ valuable technology budget is being dumped into repairs, maintenance and the like, where we know that if we just move them over to HubSpot CMS, they don’t have to constantly pay to repair broken plugins, speed up incredibly slow websites and piece together things in ways that are making website growth and flexibility entirely unattainable. The monthly payment they’re making doesn’t have to go to maintaining the status quo or fixing broken code. Instead, it powers up a far more powerful infrastructure with boosted security and gives them the opportunity to look at the road ahead.
In a world where the freedom exists to do whatever you want, maybe we need more guardrails on our website platform and the people in charge of it. Wordpress is too open and anyone can add to a website. Lacking logic for problem solving and poor coding skills just add website bloat. Sometimes, the people in charge of the website that you’ve entrusted with the livelihood of your internet presence simply don’t know enough about web development to know what’s right.
Related: 7 Developer Interview Questions to ask - Part 1
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Or maybe… they haven’t yet discovered that there’s something better out there.
Our path is coming to a close not just because our relationship is over, but because I’ve found something new. Something that delivers in all the same ways… and more. I didn’t realize what I was missing, where a love like this could take me, until I let go of all my preconceptions of what I thought small business website development had to look like.
Related: It’s time to leave WordPress for HubSpot CMS
\n
For a long time the custom development I wanted to do in HubSpot wasn’t viable, but the platform has come so far in the last few years.. I’ve learned through the years that love is an investment. That you can grow together. That there isn’t any such thing as an “expensive” or “budget” website. That you eventually pay later in time, resources and missed opportunities what you’re unwilling to pay for in the initial stages of development.
I mean, the statistics don’t lie…
According to BetterStudio:
13,000 WordPress websites are hacked every day
8% of WordPress sites are hacked due to weak or stolen passwords
Outdated Wordpress websites are blamed for 61% of attacks
Cleaning up a hacked WordPress website can cost upwards of $5,000
More than 99% of all security vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem were found in themes and plugins in 2021.
So many of our clients opt for Wordpress thinking they can have a bare bones custom site and add plugins to add the functionality they need later on… but every new plugin opens up new vulnerabilities and increased urgency for mitigating the risks.
And yet? Plugins and themes sit outdated either because the client isn’t applying them or because they’re abandoned by the developer themselves and not issuing updates - which is an entirely different problem that gets overlooked commonly.
So? It’s time to let go. I’ve already broken down the regrets you have after paying for a WordPress website and I think it’s finally time to end an era. You’ve been good to us, I’ve loved you (and sometimes hated you) for so long, and I’ll never forget all the flexibility (and many of the headaches that came with it) you brought to the table.
Bon voyage, old friend. It’s been a ride. I appreciate the good times and I’ll never forget what we’ve done and helped businesses achieve inside WordPress. But I’m a commitment kinda guy and deckerdevs has made its final decision: we’re all-in HubSpot CMS.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Decker & the deckerdevs dev team
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Simply put: there’s a better way to website.
And HubSpot CMS development? It doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. Will it be cheap? No. Worth it? Hell yes.
Believe me when I say, this thing we have with HubSpot? It’s the real deal and not any kinda fling. We’ve been in a relationship with HubSpot for over a decade. We’re just going all-in now. 
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Breakups are the pits, aren’t they? But outgrowing something (or someone) you love happens all the time. Needs change, people grow apart and what served someone well for so long just doesn’t get the job done any longer. This is how we’ve been feeling about WordPress for quite some time. I’ve been teetering on the edge of dropping WordPress as a platform for over a year, but hadn’t quite pulled the plug. It’s no secret that many small businesses outgrow WordPress quickly, but previously I wanted to have an option for small businesses that might not have had the budget to move over to HubSpot CMS. But now? With CMS Starter being such a compelling option for small businesses? It’s time, once and for all, it’s time for us to break up with WordPress.
\n\n
As finally-full-time HubSpot CMS Developers, this break up has been a long time coming.
Here’s our Dear John letter to WordPress as a platform:
—------------------------------
Dear WordPress:
It was a love story like no other. For decades, you delivered flexible development that I couldn’t get anywhere else. You made dreams come true - and not just mine. You were the foundation by which I judged all other platforms and by and large all of them paled in comparison to your capabilities, for a website platform. They were endless, and I was in awe at my ability to deliver for my small business clients. In the style of Bette Middler, you were the wind beneath my wings in so many ways. We were the power couple, the most dynamic duo. You and I did some incredible things together.
But, maybe I was jaded, in some ways. Maybe I didn’t know what love was supposed to look like, because while we reached so many destinations together, the bumps along the way and after were increasingly noticeable. The shiny newness of everything I delivered with you came to a crashing halt as I encountered more and more prospects that weren’t maintaining you properly, developers whose “best” practices and coding was terrible, leaving clients open to attacks on their website and business. The increased downtime, the decreased page speed as a result of bloated websites patched up in far too many plugins.
Related: 5 Signs You’ve Outgrown WordPress CMS
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So much of our small business clients’ valuable technology budget is being dumped into repairs, maintenance and the like, where we know that if we just move them over to HubSpot CMS, they don’t have to constantly pay to repair broken plugins, speed up incredibly slow websites and piece together things in ways that are making website growth and flexibility entirely unattainable. The monthly payment they’re making doesn’t have to go to maintaining the status quo or fixing broken code. Instead, it powers up a far more powerful infrastructure with boosted security and gives them the opportunity to look at the road ahead.
In a world where the freedom exists to do whatever you want, maybe we need more guardrails on our website platform and the people in charge of it. Wordpress is too open and anyone can add to a website. Lacking logic for problem solving and poor coding skills just add website bloat. Sometimes, the people in charge of the website that you’ve entrusted with the livelihood of your internet presence simply don’t know enough about web development to know what’s right.
Related: 7 Developer Interview Questions to ask - Part 1
\n
Or maybe… they haven’t yet discovered that there’s something better out there.
Our path is coming to a close not just because our relationship is over, but because I’ve found something new. Something that delivers in all the same ways… and more. I didn’t realize what I was missing, where a love like this could take me, until I let go of all my preconceptions of what I thought small business website development had to look like.
Related: It’s time to leave WordPress for HubSpot CMS
\n
For a long time the custom development I wanted to do in HubSpot wasn’t viable, but the platform has come so far in the last few years.. I’ve learned through the years that love is an investment. That you can grow together. That there isn’t any such thing as an “expensive” or “budget” website. That you eventually pay later in time, resources and missed opportunities what you’re unwilling to pay for in the initial stages of development.
I mean, the statistics don’t lie…
According to BetterStudio:
13,000 WordPress websites are hacked every day
8% of WordPress sites are hacked due to weak or stolen passwords
Outdated Wordpress websites are blamed for 61% of attacks
Cleaning up a hacked WordPress website can cost upwards of $5,000
More than 99% of all security vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem were found in themes and plugins in 2021.
So many of our clients opt for Wordpress thinking they can have a bare bones custom site and add plugins to add the functionality they need later on… but every new plugin opens up new vulnerabilities and increased urgency for mitigating the risks.
And yet? Plugins and themes sit outdated either because the client isn’t applying them or because they’re abandoned by the developer themselves and not issuing updates - which is an entirely different problem that gets overlooked commonly.
So? It’s time to let go. I’ve already broken down the regrets you have after paying for a WordPress website and I think it’s finally time to end an era. You’ve been good to us, I’ve loved you (and sometimes hated you) for so long, and I’ll never forget all the flexibility (and many of the headaches that came with it) you brought to the table.
Bon voyage, old friend. It’s been a ride. I appreciate the good times and I’ll never forget what we’ve done and helped businesses achieve inside WordPress. But I’m a commitment kinda guy and deckerdevs has made its final decision: we’re all-in HubSpot CMS.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Decker & the deckerdevs dev team
—----------------
Simply put: there’s a better way to website.
And HubSpot CMS development? It doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. Will it be cheap? No. Worth it? Hell yes.
Believe me when I say, this thing we have with HubSpot? It’s the real deal and not any kinda fling. We’ve been in a relationship with HubSpot for over a decade. We’re just going all-in now.
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Breakups are the pits, aren’t they? But outgrowing something (or someone) you love happens all the time. Needs change, people grow apart and what served someone well for so long just doesn’t get the job done any longer. This is how we’ve been feeling about WordPress for quite some time. I’ve been teetering on the edge of dropping WordPress as a platform for over a year, but hadn’t quite pulled the plug. It’s no secret that many small businesses outgrow WordPress quickly, but previously I wanted to have an option for small businesses that might not have had the budget to move over to HubSpot CMS. But now? With CMS Starter being such a compelling option for small businesses? It’s time, once and for all, it’s time for us to break up with WordPress.
\n\n
As finally-full-time HubSpot CMS Developers, this break up has been a long time coming.
Here’s our Dear John letter to WordPress as a platform:
—------------------------------
Dear WordPress:
It was a love story like no other. For decades, you delivered flexible development that I couldn’t get anywhere else. You made dreams come true - and not just mine. You were the foundation by which I judged all other platforms and by and large all of them paled in comparison to your capabilities, for a website platform. They were endless, and I was in awe at my ability to deliver for my small business clients. In the style of Bette Middler, you were the wind beneath my wings in so many ways. We were the power couple, the most dynamic duo. You and I did some incredible things together.
But, maybe I was jaded, in some ways. Maybe I didn’t know what love was supposed to look like, because while we reached so many destinations together, the bumps along the way and after were increasingly noticeable. The shiny newness of everything I delivered with you came to a crashing halt as I encountered more and more prospects that weren’t maintaining you properly, developers whose “best” practices and coding was terrible, leaving clients open to attacks on their website and business. The increased downtime, the decreased page speed as a result of bloated websites patched up in far too many plugins.
Related: 5 Signs You’ve Outgrown WordPress CMS
\n
So much of our small business clients’ valuable technology budget is being dumped into repairs, maintenance and the like, where we know that if we just move them over to HubSpot CMS, they don’t have to constantly pay to repair broken plugins, speed up incredibly slow websites and piece together things in ways that are making website growth and flexibility entirely unattainable. The monthly payment they’re making doesn’t have to go to maintaining the status quo or fixing broken code. Instead, it powers up a far more powerful infrastructure with boosted security and gives them the opportunity to look at the road ahead.
In a world where the freedom exists to do whatever you want, maybe we need more guardrails on our website platform and the people in charge of it. Wordpress is too open and anyone can add to a website. Lacking logic for problem solving and poor coding skills just add website bloat. Sometimes, the people in charge of the website that you’ve entrusted with the livelihood of your internet presence simply don’t know enough about web development to know what’s right.
Related: 7 Developer Interview Questions to ask - Part 1
\n
Or maybe… they haven’t yet discovered that there’s something better out there.
Our path is coming to a close not just because our relationship is over, but because I’ve found something new. Something that delivers in all the same ways… and more. I didn’t realize what I was missing, where a love like this could take me, until I let go of all my preconceptions of what I thought small business website development had to look like.
Related: It’s time to leave WordPress for HubSpot CMS
\n
For a long time the custom development I wanted to do in HubSpot wasn’t viable, but the platform has come so far in the last few years.. I’ve learned through the years that love is an investment. That you can grow together. That there isn’t any such thing as an “expensive” or “budget” website. That you eventually pay later in time, resources and missed opportunities what you’re unwilling to pay for in the initial stages of development.
I mean, the statistics don’t lie…
According to BetterStudio:
13,000 WordPress websites are hacked every day
8% of WordPress sites are hacked due to weak or stolen passwords
Outdated Wordpress websites are blamed for 61% of attacks
Cleaning up a hacked WordPress website can cost upwards of $5,000
More than 99% of all security vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem were found in themes and plugins in 2021.
So many of our clients opt for Wordpress thinking they can have a bare bones custom site and add plugins to add the functionality they need later on… but every new plugin opens up new vulnerabilities and increased urgency for mitigating the risks.
And yet? Plugins and themes sit outdated either because the client isn’t applying them or because they’re abandoned by the developer themselves and not issuing updates - which is an entirely different problem that gets overlooked commonly.
So? It’s time to let go. I’ve already broken down the regrets you have after paying for a WordPress website and I think it’s finally time to end an era. You’ve been good to us, I’ve loved you (and sometimes hated you) for so long, and I’ll never forget all the flexibility (and many of the headaches that came with it) you brought to the table.
Bon voyage, old friend. It’s been a ride. I appreciate the good times and I’ll never forget what we’ve done and helped businesses achieve inside WordPress. But I’m a commitment kinda guy and deckerdevs has made its final decision: we’re all-in HubSpot CMS.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Decker & the deckerdevs dev team
—----------------
Simply put: there’s a better way to website.
And HubSpot CMS development? It doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. Will it be cheap? No. Worth it? Hell yes.
Believe me when I say, this thing we have with HubSpot? It’s the real deal and not any kinda fling. We’ve been in a relationship with HubSpot for over a decade. We’re just going all-in now.
\n
\n
Breakups are the pits, aren’t they? But outgrowing something (or someone) you love happens all the time. Needs change, people grow apart and what served someone well for so long just doesn’t get the job done any longer. This is how we’ve been feeling about WordPress for quite some time. I’ve been teetering on the edge of dropping WordPress as a platform for over a year, but hadn’t quite pulled the plug. It’s no secret that many small businesses outgrow WordPress quickly, but previously I wanted to have an option for small businesses that might not have had the budget to move over to HubSpot CMS. But now? With CMS Starter being such a compelling option for small businesses? It’s time, once and for all, it’s time for us to break up with WordPress.
\n\n
As finally-full-time HubSpot CMS Developers, this break up has been a long time coming.
Here’s our Dear John letter to WordPress as a platform:
—------------------------------
Dear WordPress:
It was a love story like no other. For decades, you delivered flexible development that I couldn’t get anywhere else. You made dreams come true - and not just mine. You were the foundation by which I judged all other platforms and by and large all of them paled in comparison to your capabilities, for a website platform. They were endless, and I was in awe at my ability to deliver for my small business clients. In the style of Bette Middler, you were the wind beneath my wings in so many ways. We were the power couple, the most dynamic duo. You and I did some incredible things together.
But, maybe I was jaded, in some ways. Maybe I didn’t know what love was supposed to look like, because while we reached so many destinations together, the bumps along the way and after were increasingly noticeable. The shiny newness of everything I delivered with you came to a crashing halt as I encountered more and more prospects that weren’t maintaining you properly, developers whose “best” practices and coding was terrible, leaving clients open to attacks on their website and business. The increased downtime, the decreased page speed as a result of bloated websites patched up in far too many plugins.
Related: 5 Signs You’ve Outgrown WordPress CMS
\n
So much of our small business clients’ valuable technology budget is being dumped into repairs, maintenance and the like, where we know that if we just move them over to HubSpot CMS, they don’t have to constantly pay to repair broken plugins, speed up incredibly slow websites and piece together things in ways that are making website growth and flexibility entirely unattainable. The monthly payment they’re making doesn’t have to go to maintaining the status quo or fixing broken code. Instead, it powers up a far more powerful infrastructure with boosted security and gives them the opportunity to look at the road ahead.
In a world where the freedom exists to do whatever you want, maybe we need more guardrails on our website platform and the people in charge of it. Wordpress is too open and anyone can add to a website. Lacking logic for problem solving and poor coding skills just add website bloat. Sometimes, the people in charge of the website that you’ve entrusted with the livelihood of your internet presence simply don’t know enough about web development to know what’s right.
Related: 7 Developer Interview Questions to ask - Part 1
\n
Or maybe… they haven’t yet discovered that there’s something better out there.
Our path is coming to a close not just because our relationship is over, but because I’ve found something new. Something that delivers in all the same ways… and more. I didn’t realize what I was missing, where a love like this could take me, until I let go of all my preconceptions of what I thought small business website development had to look like.
Related: It’s time to leave WordPress for HubSpot CMS
\n
For a long time the custom development I wanted to do in HubSpot wasn’t viable, but the platform has come so far in the last few years.. I’ve learned through the years that love is an investment. That you can grow together. That there isn’t any such thing as an “expensive” or “budget” website. That you eventually pay later in time, resources and missed opportunities what you’re unwilling to pay for in the initial stages of development.
I mean, the statistics don’t lie…
According to BetterStudio:
13,000 WordPress websites are hacked every day
8% of WordPress sites are hacked due to weak or stolen passwords
Outdated Wordpress websites are blamed for 61% of attacks
Cleaning up a hacked WordPress website can cost upwards of $5,000
More than 99% of all security vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem were found in themes and plugins in 2021.
So many of our clients opt for Wordpress thinking they can have a bare bones custom site and add plugins to add the functionality they need later on… but every new plugin opens up new vulnerabilities and increased urgency for mitigating the risks.
And yet? Plugins and themes sit outdated either because the client isn’t applying them or because they’re abandoned by the developer themselves and not issuing updates - which is an entirely different problem that gets overlooked commonly.
So? It’s time to let go. I’ve already broken down the regrets you have after paying for a WordPress website and I think it’s finally time to end an era. You’ve been good to us, I’ve loved you (and sometimes hated you) for so long, and I’ll never forget all the flexibility (and many of the headaches that came with it) you brought to the table.
Bon voyage, old friend. It’s been a ride. I appreciate the good times and I’ll never forget what we’ve done and helped businesses achieve inside WordPress. But I’m a commitment kinda guy and deckerdevs has made its final decision: we’re all-in HubSpot CMS.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Decker & the deckerdevs dev team
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Simply put: there’s a better way to website.
And HubSpot CMS development? It doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. Will it be cheap? No. Worth it? Hell yes.
Believe me when I say, this thing we have with HubSpot? It’s the real deal and not any kinda fling. We’ve been in a relationship with HubSpot for over a decade. We’re just going all-in now.
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Breakups are the pits, aren’t they? But outgrowing something (or someone) you love happens all the time. Needs change, people grow apart and what served someone well for so long just doesn’t get the job done any longer. This is how we’ve been feeling about WordPress for quite some time. I’ve been teetering on the edge of dropping WordPress as a platform for over a year, but hadn’t quite pulled the plug. It’s no secret that many small businesses outgrow WordPress quickly, but previously I wanted to have an option for small businesses that might not have had the budget to move over to HubSpot CMS. But now? With CMS Starter being such a compelling option for small businesses? It’s time, once and for all, it’s time for us to break up with WordPress.
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As finally-full-time HubSpot CMS Developers, this break up has been a long time coming.
Here’s our Dear John letter to WordPress as a platform:
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Dear WordPress:
It was a love story like no other. For decades, you delivered flexible development that I couldn’t get anywhere else. You made dreams come true - and not just mine. You were the foundation by which I judged all other platforms and by and large all of them paled in comparison to your capabilities, for a website platform. They were endless, and I was in awe at my ability to deliver for my small business clients. In the style of Bette Middler, you were the wind beneath my wings in so many ways. We were the power couple, the most dynamic duo. You and I did some incredible things together.
But, maybe I was jaded, in some ways. Maybe I didn’t know what love was supposed to look like, because while we reached so many destinations together, the bumps along the way and after were increasingly noticeable. The shiny newness of everything I delivered with you came to a crashing halt as I encountered more and more prospects that weren’t maintaining you properly, developers whose “best” practices and coding was terrible, leaving clients open to attacks on their website and business. The increased downtime, the decreased page speed as a result of bloated websites patched up in far too many plugins.
Related: 5 Signs You’ve Outgrown WordPress CMS
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So much of our small business clients’ valuable technology budget is being dumped into repairs, maintenance and the like, where we know that if we just move them over to HubSpot CMS, they don’t have to constantly pay to repair broken plugins, speed up incredibly slow websites and piece together things in ways that are making website growth and flexibility entirely unattainable. The monthly payment they’re making doesn’t have to go to maintaining the status quo or fixing broken code. Instead, it powers up a far more powerful infrastructure with boosted security and gives them the opportunity to look at the road ahead.
In a world where the freedom exists to do whatever you want, maybe we need more guardrails on our website platform and the people in charge of it. Wordpress is too open and anyone can add to a website. Lacking logic for problem solving and poor coding skills just add website bloat. Sometimes, the people in charge of the website that you’ve entrusted with the livelihood of your internet presence simply don’t know enough about web development to know what’s right.
Related: 7 Developer Interview Questions to ask - Part 1
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Or maybe… they haven’t yet discovered that there’s something better out there.
Our path is coming to a close not just because our relationship is over, but because I’ve found something new. Something that delivers in all the same ways… and more. I didn’t realize what I was missing, where a love like this could take me, until I let go of all my preconceptions of what I thought small business website development had to look like.
Related: It’s time to leave WordPress for HubSpot CMS
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For a long time the custom development I wanted to do in HubSpot wasn’t viable, but the platform has come so far in the last few years.. I’ve learned through the years that love is an investment. That you can grow together. That there isn’t any such thing as an “expensive” or “budget” website. That you eventually pay later in time, resources and missed opportunities what you’re unwilling to pay for in the initial stages of development.
I mean, the statistics don’t lie…
According to BetterStudio:
13,000 WordPress websites are hacked every day
8% of WordPress sites are hacked due to weak or stolen passwords
Outdated Wordpress websites are blamed for 61% of attacks
Cleaning up a hacked WordPress website can cost upwards of $5,000
More than 99% of all security vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem were found in themes and plugins in 2021.
So many of our clients opt for Wordpress thinking they can have a bare bones custom site and add plugins to add the functionality they need later on… but every new plugin opens up new vulnerabilities and increased urgency for mitigating the risks.
And yet? Plugins and themes sit outdated either because the client isn’t applying them or because they’re abandoned by the developer themselves and not issuing updates - which is an entirely different problem that gets overlooked commonly.
So? It’s time to let go. I’ve already broken down the regrets you have after paying for a WordPress website and I think it’s finally time to end an era. You’ve been good to us, I’ve loved you (and sometimes hated you) for so long, and I’ll never forget all the flexibility (and many of the headaches that came with it) you brought to the table.
Bon voyage, old friend. It’s been a ride. I appreciate the good times and I’ll never forget what we’ve done and helped businesses achieve inside WordPress. But I’m a commitment kinda guy and deckerdevs has made its final decision: we’re all-in HubSpot CMS.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Decker & the deckerdevs dev team
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Simply put: there’s a better way to website.
And HubSpot CMS development? It doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. Will it be cheap? No. Worth it? Hell yes.
Believe me when I say, this thing we have with HubSpot? It’s the real deal and not any kinda fling. We’ve been in a relationship with HubSpot for over a decade. We’re just going all-in now.
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Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Immediately - you’ll spend more time (and money) on maintenance and security.
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One of the biggest brags on HubSpot CMS is that the security, maintenance and updates are included out of the box for every level of the software - so you’ll not find that an app is out of date and the security is compromised. Bugs, updates, maintenance, and all of that stuff just happens in the back end. This is huge and probably one of the biggest headaches for Wordpress users - out of date or broken plugins can take their website down, and if they’re not paying actively for maintenance, tracking down someone to help while their website is done can be difficult, time consuming and costly depending on how long your website is down.
This cost can range from $50 to a few hundred dollars every month just to keep your website up and running. So often people get caught up in the financial contract with HubSpot without factoring in their own budget for ongoing maintenance and security fixes in WordPress. Or, worse, they opt in to Wordpress because they don’t think they have to pay that monthly fee, finish their website and things persistently break, they have to field 60,000 spam comments because there was no captcha or security build around spam comments and across the board it just becomes a massive maintenance pain.
Lack of maintenance on theme and plugin updates can mean security vulnerabilities to hackers. In fact, WPScan reports that 97% of vulnerabilities inside WordPress are not because of the platform itself, but because of the add-on themes and plugins not being updated adequately.
You don’t have to worry about any of that when you sign on with HubSpot, but you pay a subscription fee for that luxury.
A monthly fee for peace of mind? Might be worth it, don’t you think?
Related: HubSpot Blog - 14 WordPress Security Issues & Vulnerabilities you Should Know About
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A few months in - you’ll want to add *a lot* more functionality
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Designing and building a website is one thing, but actually using it as a marketer? That’s something totally different. More often than not, your web developer will complete a website for you on WordPress and you’ll start working with it, only to realize that you’re missing some functionality. No big deal, Wordpress has over 60,000 apps that allow you to customize the features on your website. The only problem? They all have to be managed separately and have their own settings and some of them are paid.
Not only that, but the plugins often conflict with one another, some are poorly maintained by their developers, and they can leave large security holes in your website at large if they’re not well maintained.
Now we’re adding both cost *and* risk, but also? Weight.
6 months later… your website will be slower.
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Each new plugin you add to your website adds in processes and information that have to be loaded in the back end. And because WordPress defaults to querying the database numerous times on every page reload. It only takes a few heavy plugins for this to completely annihilate the user experience. And we’ve talked about this at length in our discussion of factors bogging down your website.
Website bloat is a problem with many Wordpress websites that increases with time. While a developer can manage this more proactively by installing WP Cache and optimizing what they can, largely as your needs grow you’ll either need to completely redesign your website or switch to a better framework that can more adequately handle the needs of your growing business.
8 months in… things may start to break.
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When you work inside HubSpot, as long as you’re able to find a really reputable developer, for the most part you can grow your website with that developer. The same person (ideally), then, Is responsible for all the updates and changes on your website and because of how the HubSpot’s CMS works, and how a reputable developer works within it, you’ll not experience broken plugins or apps, or the same kind of website bloat that you might by adding features over time to your WordPress site.
However, when you add tons of different apps and plugins inside WordPress, things may start to break. Whether its from poor maintenance by a developer that needs to be updating your website and plugins, or whether you have a plugin that isn’t being updated by the developer that created it, when you’re relying on so many different plugins for your website, it is common for these plugins to break your website and for you to experience downtime as a result.
Depending on the size of your business, the cost of website downtime can vary from a few hundred dollars to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed revenue. For businesses that do any kind of business online, even if they’re in the business to business realm, the cost of developing and paying for the HubSpot platform has long term benefits that you probably won’t notice, since your website downtime will be much more limited on HubSpot than it will with WordPress.
A year later, spam may become a full time job.
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Spam is a problem for many websites, but for so many businesses that use WordPress for their website content management comment and form spam is a huge issue. Even with login and captcha plugins, it can be a full time job just to moderate spam comments and manage the trash that comes into your inbox from your forms. Adding Google or WPForms or another captcha option can be helpful for form spam, but for many business owners they end up turning off comments entirely that use Wordpress.
Spam issues with forms and content are so much less bad on HubSpot CMS. Imagine how much time you could regain not deleting hundreds of spam comments on your blog every few months?
2 years in - you’ll have no website growth strategy and have to start the process all over again.
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One of the best parts of working with clients that host their websites with HubSpot is we adopt a continuous improvement model with them and the platform at large and framework we use as a foundation is capable of handling scale. HubSpot’s platform can easily be upgraded to enterprise level, and multiple features like Mega Menus, Resource Centers and ROI calculators can be added on without adding too much bulk to a website load time through management of tools like HubDB.
When you add on to a WordPress website over time, it’s not always capable of handling the additional load and you’ll often find yourself growing frustrated with the load speed, security issues and plugins from different developers that sometimes don’t play together perfectly. Leveraging HubSpot from the get go ensures that you can scale by utilizing a continuous growth model and build your website improvements into a predictable monthly budget that allows you to build the features you need without having to redesign your website entirely every few years.
The bottom line?
Wordpress is great for small businesses, but as your business scales, you’ll quickly outgrow it in functionality or have to redesign your website completely too often to keep it loading fast and get all the features you want. While the cost may be more upfront, you’ll have a secure foundation with HubSpot and a gifted development partner can help you scale over time using a predictable budget that suits your needs.
Can a small budget boost save you a year or two of regret being stuck on WordPress? We say yes.
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Immediately - you’ll spend more time (and money) on maintenance and security.
\n
One of the biggest brags on HubSpot CMS is that the security, maintenance and updates are included out of the box for every level of the software - so you’ll not find that an app is out of date and the security is compromised. Bugs, updates, maintenance, and all of that stuff just happens in the back end. This is huge and probably one of the biggest headaches for Wordpress users - out of date or broken plugins can take their website down, and if they’re not paying actively for maintenance, tracking down someone to help while their website is done can be difficult, time consuming and costly depending on how long your website is down.
This cost can range from $50 to a few hundred dollars every month just to keep your website up and running. So often people get caught up in the financial contract with HubSpot without factoring in their own budget for ongoing maintenance and security fixes in WordPress. Or, worse, they opt in to Wordpress because they don’t think they have to pay that monthly fee, finish their website and things persistently break, they have to field 60,000 spam comments because there was no captcha or security build around spam comments and across the board it just becomes a massive maintenance pain.
Lack of maintenance on theme and plugin updates can mean security vulnerabilities to hackers. In fact, WPScan reports that 97% of vulnerabilities inside WordPress are not because of the platform itself, but because of the add-on themes and plugins not being updated adequately.
You don’t have to worry about any of that when you sign on with HubSpot, but you pay a subscription fee for that luxury.
A monthly fee for peace of mind? Might be worth it, don’t you think?
Related: HubSpot Blog - 14 WordPress Security Issues & Vulnerabilities you Should Know About
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A few months in - you’ll want to add *a lot* more functionality
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Designing and building a website is one thing, but actually using it as a marketer? That’s something totally different. More often than not, your web developer will complete a website for you on WordPress and you’ll start working with it, only to realize that you’re missing some functionality. No big deal, Wordpress has over 60,000 apps that allow you to customize the features on your website. The only problem? They all have to be managed separately and have their own settings and some of them are paid.
Not only that, but the plugins often conflict with one another, some are poorly maintained by their developers, and they can leave large security holes in your website at large if they’re not well maintained.
Now we’re adding both cost *and* risk, but also? Weight.
6 months later… your website will be slower.
\n
Each new plugin you add to your website adds in processes and information that have to be loaded in the back end. And because WordPress defaults to querying the database numerous times on every page reload. It only takes a few heavy plugins for this to completely annihilate the user experience. And we’ve talked about this at length in our discussion of factors bogging down your website.
Website bloat is a problem with many Wordpress websites that increases with time. While a developer can manage this more proactively by installing WP Cache and optimizing what they can, largely as your needs grow you’ll either need to completely redesign your website or switch to a better framework that can more adequately handle the needs of your growing business.
8 months in… things may start to break.
\n
When you work inside HubSpot, as long as you’re able to find a really reputable developer, for the most part you can grow your website with that developer. The same person (ideally), then, Is responsible for all the updates and changes on your website and because of how the HubSpot’s CMS works, and how a reputable developer works within it, you’ll not experience broken plugins or apps, or the same kind of website bloat that you might by adding features over time to your WordPress site.
However, when you add tons of different apps and plugins inside WordPress, things may start to break. Whether its from poor maintenance by a developer that needs to be updating your website and plugins, or whether you have a plugin that isn’t being updated by the developer that created it, when you’re relying on so many different plugins for your website, it is common for these plugins to break your website and for you to experience downtime as a result.
Depending on the size of your business, the cost of website downtime can vary from a few hundred dollars to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed revenue. For businesses that do any kind of business online, even if they’re in the business to business realm, the cost of developing and paying for the HubSpot platform has long term benefits that you probably won’t notice, since your website downtime will be much more limited on HubSpot than it will with WordPress.
A year later, spam may become a full time job.
\n
Spam is a problem for many websites, but for so many businesses that use WordPress for their website content management comment and form spam is a huge issue. Even with login and captcha plugins, it can be a full time job just to moderate spam comments and manage the trash that comes into your inbox from your forms. Adding Google or WPForms or another captcha option can be helpful for form spam, but for many business owners they end up turning off comments entirely that use Wordpress.
Spam issues with forms and content are so much less bad on HubSpot CMS. Imagine how much time you could regain not deleting hundreds of spam comments on your blog every few months?
2 years in - you’ll have no website growth strategy and have to start the process all over again.
\n
One of the best parts of working with clients that host their websites with HubSpot is we adopt a continuous improvement model with them and the platform at large and framework we use as a foundation is capable of handling scale. HubSpot’s platform can easily be upgraded to enterprise level, and multiple features like Mega Menus, Resource Centers and ROI calculators can be added on without adding too much bulk to a website load time through management of tools like HubDB.
When you add on to a WordPress website over time, it’s not always capable of handling the additional load and you’ll often find yourself growing frustrated with the load speed, security issues and plugins from different developers that sometimes don’t play together perfectly. Leveraging HubSpot from the get go ensures that you can scale by utilizing a continuous growth model and build your website improvements into a predictable monthly budget that allows you to build the features you need without having to redesign your website entirely every few years.
The bottom line?
Wordpress is great for small businesses, but as your business scales, you’ll quickly outgrow it in functionality or have to redesign your website completely too often to keep it loading fast and get all the features you want. While the cost may be more upfront, you’ll have a secure foundation with HubSpot and a gifted development partner can help you scale over time using a predictable budget that suits your needs.
Can a small budget boost save you a year or two of regret being stuck on WordPress? We say yes.
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Immediately - you’ll spend more time (and money) on maintenance and security.
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One of the biggest brags on HubSpot CMS is that the security, maintenance and updates are included out of the box for every level of the software - so you’ll not find that an app is out of date and the security is compromised. Bugs, updates, maintenance, and all of that stuff just happens in the back end. This is huge and probably one of the biggest headaches for Wordpress users - out of date or broken plugins can take their website down, and if they’re not paying actively for maintenance, tracking down someone to help while their website is done can be difficult, time consuming and costly depending on how long your website is down.
This cost can range from $50 to a few hundred dollars every month just to keep your website up and running. So often people get caught up in the financial contract with HubSpot without factoring in their own budget for ongoing maintenance and security fixes in WordPress. Or, worse, they opt in to Wordpress because they don’t think they have to pay that monthly fee, finish their website and things persistently break, they have to field 60,000 spam comments because there was no captcha or security build around spam comments and across the board it just becomes a massive maintenance pain.
Lack of maintenance on theme and plugin updates can mean security vulnerabilities to hackers. In fact, WPScan reports that 97% of vulnerabilities inside WordPress are not because of the platform itself, but because of the add-on themes and plugins not being updated adequately.
You don’t have to worry about any of that when you sign on with HubSpot, but you pay a subscription fee for that luxury.
A monthly fee for peace of mind? Might be worth it, don’t you think?
Related: HubSpot Blog - 14 WordPress Security Issues & Vulnerabilities you Should Know About
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A few months in - you’ll want to add *a lot* more functionality
\n
Designing and building a website is one thing, but actually using it as a marketer? That’s something totally different. More often than not, your web developer will complete a website for you on WordPress and you’ll start working with it, only to realize that you’re missing some functionality. No big deal, Wordpress has over 60,000 apps that allow you to customize the features on your website. The only problem? They all have to be managed separately and have their own settings and some of them are paid.
Not only that, but the plugins often conflict with one another, some are poorly maintained by their developers, and they can leave large security holes in your website at large if they’re not well maintained.
Now we’re adding both cost *and* risk, but also? Weight.
6 months later… your website will be slower.
\n
Each new plugin you add to your website adds in processes and information that have to be loaded in the back end. And because WordPress defaults to querying the database numerous times on every page reload. It only takes a few heavy plugins for this to completely annihilate the user experience. And we’ve talked about this at length in our discussion of factors bogging down your website.
Website bloat is a problem with many Wordpress websites that increases with time. While a developer can manage this more proactively by installing WP Cache and optimizing what they can, largely as your needs grow you’ll either need to completely redesign your website or switch to a better framework that can more adequately handle the needs of your growing business.
8 months in… things may start to break.
\n
When you work inside HubSpot, as long as you’re able to find a really reputable developer, for the most part you can grow your website with that developer. The same person (ideally), then, Is responsible for all the updates and changes on your website and because of how the HubSpot’s CMS works, and how a reputable developer works within it, you’ll not experience broken plugins or apps, or the same kind of website bloat that you might by adding features over time to your WordPress site.
However, when you add tons of different apps and plugins inside WordPress, things may start to break. Whether its from poor maintenance by a developer that needs to be updating your website and plugins, or whether you have a plugin that isn’t being updated by the developer that created it, when you’re relying on so many different plugins for your website, it is common for these plugins to break your website and for you to experience downtime as a result.
Depending on the size of your business, the cost of website downtime can vary from a few hundred dollars to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed revenue. For businesses that do any kind of business online, even if they’re in the business to business realm, the cost of developing and paying for the HubSpot platform has long term benefits that you probably won’t notice, since your website downtime will be much more limited on HubSpot than it will with WordPress.
A year later, spam may become a full time job.
\n
Spam is a problem for many websites, but for so many businesses that use WordPress for their website content management comment and form spam is a huge issue. Even with login and captcha plugins, it can be a full time job just to moderate spam comments and manage the trash that comes into your inbox from your forms. Adding Google or WPForms or another captcha option can be helpful for form spam, but for many business owners they end up turning off comments entirely that use Wordpress.
Spam issues with forms and content are so much less bad on HubSpot CMS. Imagine how much time you could regain not deleting hundreds of spam comments on your blog every few months?
2 years in - you’ll have no website growth strategy and have to start the process all over again.
\n
One of the best parts of working with clients that host their websites with HubSpot is we adopt a continuous improvement model with them and the platform at large and framework we use as a foundation is capable of handling scale. HubSpot’s platform can easily be upgraded to enterprise level, and multiple features like Mega Menus, Resource Centers and ROI calculators can be added on without adding too much bulk to a website load time through management of tools like HubDB.
When you add on to a WordPress website over time, it’s not always capable of handling the additional load and you’ll often find yourself growing frustrated with the load speed, security issues and plugins from different developers that sometimes don’t play together perfectly. Leveraging HubSpot from the get go ensures that you can scale by utilizing a continuous growth model and build your website improvements into a predictable monthly budget that allows you to build the features you need without having to redesign your website entirely every few years.
The bottom line?
Wordpress is great for small businesses, but as your business scales, you’ll quickly outgrow it in functionality or have to redesign your website completely too often to keep it loading fast and get all the features you want. While the cost may be more upfront, you’ll have a secure foundation with HubSpot and a gifted development partner can help you scale over time using a predictable budget that suits your needs.
Can a small budget boost save you a year or two of regret being stuck on WordPress? We say yes.
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Immediately - you’ll spend more time (and money) on maintenance and security.
\n
One of the biggest brags on HubSpot CMS is that the security, maintenance and updates are included out of the box for every level of the software - so you’ll not find that an app is out of date and the security is compromised. Bugs, updates, maintenance, and all of that stuff just happens in the back end. This is huge and probably one of the biggest headaches for Wordpress users - out of date or broken plugins can take their website down, and if they’re not paying actively for maintenance, tracking down someone to help while their website is done can be difficult, time consuming and costly depending on how long your website is down.
This cost can range from $50 to a few hundred dollars every month just to keep your website up and running. So often people get caught up in the financial contract with HubSpot without factoring in their own budget for ongoing maintenance and security fixes in WordPress. Or, worse, they opt in to Wordpress because they don’t think they have to pay that monthly fee, finish their website and things persistently break, they have to field 60,000 spam comments because there was no captcha or security build around spam comments and across the board it just becomes a massive maintenance pain.
Lack of maintenance on theme and plugin updates can mean security vulnerabilities to hackers. In fact, WPScan reports that 97% of vulnerabilities inside WordPress are not because of the platform itself, but because of the add-on themes and plugins not being updated adequately.
You don’t have to worry about any of that when you sign on with HubSpot, but you pay a subscription fee for that luxury.
A monthly fee for peace of mind? Might be worth it, don’t you think?
Related: HubSpot Blog - 14 WordPress Security Issues & Vulnerabilities you Should Know About
\n
A few months in - you’ll want to add *a lot* more functionality
\n
Designing and building a website is one thing, but actually using it as a marketer? That’s something totally different. More often than not, your web developer will complete a website for you on WordPress and you’ll start working with it, only to realize that you’re missing some functionality. No big deal, Wordpress has over 60,000 apps that allow you to customize the features on your website. The only problem? They all have to be managed separately and have their own settings and some of them are paid.
Not only that, but the plugins often conflict with one another, some are poorly maintained by their developers, and they can leave large security holes in your website at large if they’re not well maintained.
Now we’re adding both cost *and* risk, but also? Weight.
6 months later… your website will be slower.
\n
Each new plugin you add to your website adds in processes and information that have to be loaded in the back end. And because WordPress defaults to querying the database numerous times on every page reload. It only takes a few heavy plugins for this to completely annihilate the user experience. And we’ve talked about this at length in our discussion of factors bogging down your website.
Website bloat is a problem with many Wordpress websites that increases with time. While a developer can manage this more proactively by installing WP Cache and optimizing what they can, largely as your needs grow you’ll either need to completely redesign your website or switch to a better framework that can more adequately handle the needs of your growing business.
8 months in… things may start to break.
\n
When you work inside HubSpot, as long as you’re able to find a really reputable developer, for the most part you can grow your website with that developer. The same person (ideally), then, Is responsible for all the updates and changes on your website and because of how the HubSpot’s CMS works, and how a reputable developer works within it, you’ll not experience broken plugins or apps, or the same kind of website bloat that you might by adding features over time to your WordPress site.
However, when you add tons of different apps and plugins inside WordPress, things may start to break. Whether its from poor maintenance by a developer that needs to be updating your website and plugins, or whether you have a plugin that isn’t being updated by the developer that created it, when you’re relying on so many different plugins for your website, it is common for these plugins to break your website and for you to experience downtime as a result.
Depending on the size of your business, the cost of website downtime can vary from a few hundred dollars to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed revenue. For businesses that do any kind of business online, even if they’re in the business to business realm, the cost of developing and paying for the HubSpot platform has long term benefits that you probably won’t notice, since your website downtime will be much more limited on HubSpot than it will with WordPress.
A year later, spam may become a full time job.
\n
Spam is a problem for many websites, but for so many businesses that use WordPress for their website content management comment and form spam is a huge issue. Even with login and captcha plugins, it can be a full time job just to moderate spam comments and manage the trash that comes into your inbox from your forms. Adding Google or WPForms or another captcha option can be helpful for form spam, but for many business owners they end up turning off comments entirely that use Wordpress.
Spam issues with forms and content are so much less bad on HubSpot CMS. Imagine how much time you could regain not deleting hundreds of spam comments on your blog every few months?
2 years in - you’ll have no website growth strategy and have to start the process all over again.
\n
One of the best parts of working with clients that host their websites with HubSpot is we adopt a continuous improvement model with them and the platform at large and framework we use as a foundation is capable of handling scale. HubSpot’s platform can easily be upgraded to enterprise level, and multiple features like Mega Menus, Resource Centers and ROI calculators can be added on without adding too much bulk to a website load time through management of tools like HubDB.
When you add on to a WordPress website over time, it’s not always capable of handling the additional load and you’ll often find yourself growing frustrated with the load speed, security issues and plugins from different developers that sometimes don’t play together perfectly. Leveraging HubSpot from the get go ensures that you can scale by utilizing a continuous growth model and build your website improvements into a predictable monthly budget that allows you to build the features you need without having to redesign your website entirely every few years.
The bottom line?
Wordpress is great for small businesses, but as your business scales, you’ll quickly outgrow it in functionality or have to redesign your website completely too often to keep it loading fast and get all the features you want. While the cost may be more upfront, you’ll have a secure foundation with HubSpot and a gifted development partner can help you scale over time using a predictable budget that suits your needs.
Can a small budget boost save you a year or two of regret being stuck on WordPress? We say yes.
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
Immediately - you’ll spend more time (and money) on maintenance and security.
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One of the biggest brags on HubSpot CMS is that the security, maintenance and updates are included out of the box for every level of the software - so you’ll not find that an app is out of date and the security is compromised. Bugs, updates, maintenance, and all of that stuff just happens in the back end. This is huge and probably one of the biggest headaches for Wordpress users - out of date or broken plugins can take their website down, and if they’re not paying actively for maintenance, tracking down someone to help while their website is done can be difficult, time consuming and costly depending on how long your website is down.
This cost can range from $50 to a few hundred dollars every month just to keep your website up and running. So often people get caught up in the financial contract with HubSpot without factoring in their own budget for ongoing maintenance and security fixes in WordPress. Or, worse, they opt in to Wordpress because they don’t think they have to pay that monthly fee, finish their website and things persistently break, they have to field 60,000 spam comments because there was no captcha or security build around spam comments and across the board it just becomes a massive maintenance pain.
Lack of maintenance on theme and plugin updates can mean security vulnerabilities to hackers. In fact, WPScan reports that 97% of vulnerabilities inside WordPress are not because of the platform itself, but because of the add-on themes and plugins not being updated adequately.
You don’t have to worry about any of that when you sign on with HubSpot, but you pay a subscription fee for that luxury.
A monthly fee for peace of mind? Might be worth it, don’t you think?
Related: HubSpot Blog - 14 WordPress Security Issues & Vulnerabilities you Should Know About
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A few months in - you’ll want to add *a lot* more functionality
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Designing and building a website is one thing, but actually using it as a marketer? That’s something totally different. More often than not, your web developer will complete a website for you on WordPress and you’ll start working with it, only to realize that you’re missing some functionality. No big deal, Wordpress has over 60,000 apps that allow you to customize the features on your website. The only problem? They all have to be managed separately and have their own settings and some of them are paid.
Not only that, but the plugins often conflict with one another, some are poorly maintained by their developers, and they can leave large security holes in your website at large if they’re not well maintained.
Now we’re adding both cost *and* risk, but also? Weight.
6 months later… your website will be slower.
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Each new plugin you add to your website adds in processes and information that have to be loaded in the back end. And because WordPress defaults to querying the database numerous times on every page reload. It only takes a few heavy plugins for this to completely annihilate the user experience. And we’ve talked about this at length in our discussion of factors bogging down your website.
Website bloat is a problem with many Wordpress websites that increases with time. While a developer can manage this more proactively by installing WP Cache and optimizing what they can, largely as your needs grow you’ll either need to completely redesign your website or switch to a better framework that can more adequately handle the needs of your growing business.
8 months in… things may start to break.
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When you work inside HubSpot, as long as you’re able to find a really reputable developer, for the most part you can grow your website with that developer. The same person (ideally), then, Is responsible for all the updates and changes on your website and because of how the HubSpot’s CMS works, and how a reputable developer works within it, you’ll not experience broken plugins or apps, or the same kind of website bloat that you might by adding features over time to your WordPress site.
However, when you add tons of different apps and plugins inside WordPress, things may start to break. Whether its from poor maintenance by a developer that needs to be updating your website and plugins, or whether you have a plugin that isn’t being updated by the developer that created it, when you’re relying on so many different plugins for your website, it is common for these plugins to break your website and for you to experience downtime as a result.
Depending on the size of your business, the cost of website downtime can vary from a few hundred dollars to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed revenue. For businesses that do any kind of business online, even if they’re in the business to business realm, the cost of developing and paying for the HubSpot platform has long term benefits that you probably won’t notice, since your website downtime will be much more limited on HubSpot than it will with WordPress.
A year later, spam may become a full time job.
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Spam is a problem for many websites, but for so many businesses that use WordPress for their website content management comment and form spam is a huge issue. Even with login and captcha plugins, it can be a full time job just to moderate spam comments and manage the trash that comes into your inbox from your forms. Adding Google or WPForms or another captcha option can be helpful for form spam, but for many business owners they end up turning off comments entirely that use Wordpress.
Spam issues with forms and content are so much less bad on HubSpot CMS. Imagine how much time you could regain not deleting hundreds of spam comments on your blog every few months?
2 years in - you’ll have no website growth strategy and have to start the process all over again.
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One of the best parts of working with clients that host their websites with HubSpot is we adopt a continuous improvement model with them and the platform at large and framework we use as a foundation is capable of handling scale. HubSpot’s platform can easily be upgraded to enterprise level, and multiple features like Mega Menus, Resource Centers and ROI calculators can be added on without adding too much bulk to a website load time through management of tools like HubDB.
When you add on to a WordPress website over time, it’s not always capable of handling the additional load and you’ll often find yourself growing frustrated with the load speed, security issues and plugins from different developers that sometimes don’t play together perfectly. Leveraging HubSpot from the get go ensures that you can scale by utilizing a continuous growth model and build your website improvements into a predictable monthly budget that allows you to build the features you need without having to redesign your website entirely every few years.
The bottom line?
Wordpress is great for small businesses, but as your business scales, you’ll quickly outgrow it in functionality or have to redesign your website completely too often to keep it loading fast and get all the features you want. While the cost may be more upfront, you’ll have a secure foundation with HubSpot and a gifted development partner can help you scale over time using a predictable budget that suits your needs.
Can a small budget boost save you a year or two of regret being stuck on WordPress? We say yes.
Wordpress has its purpose. It’s great for small and growing businesses to build a customized website with features that they need. While it is debatably a step above a platform like Squarespace and has a significantly lower cost when you add functionality for e-commerce versus added apps on a platform like Shopify, it has problems of its own. Hands down, though, it’s one of the top flexible solutions for small business owners for the price point, flexibility and capabilities.
When we started on as a HubSpot Partner, we made the decision to only develop on WP-Engine and HubSpot CMS. But as we continue to expand the capabilities of HubSpot for its users, we’re moving further and further away from Wordpress as a whole. For many HubSpot customers, migrating over from Wordpress to HubSpot seems daunting and cost prohibitive. While free and inexpensive HubSpot themes are available on Marketplace, they typically don’t serve the needs of a scaling business, for a number of reasons. Check out why scaling organizations need to stop buying HubSpot Marketplace themes.
Recently we completed a HubSpot CMS website development proposal using a framework that we’ve developed that drastically decreases the average price for customer development on HubSpot CMS. The proposal was competitive for HubSpot development, but still more expensive than the Wordpress proposal from the other developer, and while we won’t go back into the problem with cheap outsourced web development, we want to be very clear about the inevitable when you are marketing on the HubSpot platform as a scaling business and choose Wordpress for content management and that’s - you’re gonna regret it. It’s simply a matter of time. Not only are you going to regret it, but you’re going to have a full timeline of regret that we’ve seen countless times for companies that choose to compromise by using Wordpress.
So, here they are - the 5 regrets you’ll have paying for a custom Wordpress website and their corresponding timeline:
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
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Businesses grow. It’s what they’re all meant to do and it’s what we as business owners want. But as they grow, businesses and their teams add line of business applications, additional employees, marketing functions, content and additional functionality to the website. All of a sudden what used to work so well for your business is bogged down, barely keeping up and holding our marketing teams back from really leaping into digital marketing and turning the website into a lead generation tool.
If you’re starting to worry that your WordPress website is holding you back, here are a few signs that you might be outgrowing WordPress…
You find yourself compromising on what you want.
\nPlugins. Am I right? Plugins were always to website features what apps were to user needs with the iPhone. There was always a plugin that did what you needed. Fast forward a few years, and as more and more developers stop supporting their plugins, there are fewer secure options to get your goals accomplished inside WordPress. This means you’ve added multiple plugins to accomplish a goal or help with a workflow, resulting in piecemeal websites bogged down by plugins that aren’t properly supported which leads to security holes and slower load times.
\nYour site keeps getting hacked
\nThe security holes that come with outdated plugins really get you in trouble. The multitudes of WordPress plugins and the clunky way you piece together your website might’ve worked when you were just getting going, but once those plugins went out of date they opened huge security holes and it’s possible your site has been compromised. WordPress is well known for their vulnerability issues. While captcha and security tools can help, attacks can slip through from time to time, because the majority of the plugins hosted on WordPress are third party plugins.
\nUpdates break your website
\nWordPress core, themes, and plugins are almost constantly updating to make up for the security vulnerabilities and attacks, but every time they update to accommodate those security gaps, it has the potential to break your website, especially when the developers that created your theme or plugins may not be updating at the same rate that WordPress. Approaching these plugin updates reactively can mean that you experience downtime before your developer can get in to fix these items - and as a growing business, that downtime becomes more and more costly if you’re relying on your website for any kind of revenue.
But it’s not just outdated plugins that can cause your website to break, but misplaced code and styling within WordPress core, themes and plugins can cause updates to break your website as well. Oftentimes developers hack together CSS and HTML and put it in the wrong places or fail to create child themes and directly update the theme files, instead. They may also target part of the structure that shouldn’t be targeted within a theme or even modify core WordPress files. An example of this might be when you ask a developer to update your WordPress site, and after updating the styling is totally out of whack. Some WordPress themes have very specific rules around how the theme should be updated and developers don’t always follow them or leave behind appropriate documentation, which may work if they’re the only one updating the website long term, but if things are misplaced and themes aren’t treated with best practices, updates will inevitably break your site.
You’re exploring integrations
\nAs your business grows, you’ll find that the pieces of software that you use to manage your day to day items may not serve you as well. You might bring on more robust applications, and eventually you might even want to integrate those applications closely with your website. Customer portals, custom calculators, learning centers, the details of customer registration, event management or sales handoffs are just some of the integrations and applications that customers have approached us to design on their behalf. Integrating these applications or building integrations between an already bogged down website and business application needs to be considered carefully. Investing so heavily in advanced integrations should be part of a really comprehensive evaluation of all your technology - including your website.
\nYour site is slow AF
\nWe discuss the frustration associated with bogged down websites all the time - and it’s a huge segment of the reason that a lot of companies decide to completely overhaul their website. Piecing together functionality that you need using multiple plugins for form capture, graphic displays and chatbots for example is great from a functionality and feature perspective, but pile that on with photo gallery and product management and things start to get slower and slower. Your new marketing manager has even more great ideas - but your site is already too slow and you know that slow loading sites are not good for Google *or* user conversions.
Your website served you well for a long time, but you can’t expect what you started with to continue serving you through this growth period in your business. Just like you upgrade phones and computers and processes, you need to upgrade your website framework and CMS. If you’re experiencing any of the above, it’s very likely that it’s time to upgrade from WordPress and hiring a skilled, experienced developer is gonna get you there.
It’s no secret that at deckerdevs we’re HubSpot advocates. We’ve invested a lot of time and funding into growing our knowledge base and experience in HubSpot. We’ve been around since the onset of this powerful automation software and as we continue to watch their CMS grow, we know we can count on the same boundary-pushing best practices, security, user friendliness and attention to detail they’ve always moved forward in their marketing software. Is HubSpot CMS the solution for every business that has outgrown WordPress? Not necessarily. But it might be.
What’s your WordPress struggle?
Let us know what you’re dealing with in the comments or book some time and let’s chat it out.
\n
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
Businesses grow. It’s what they’re all meant to do and it’s what we as business owners want. But as they grow, businesses and their teams add line of business applications, additional employees, marketing functions, content and additional functionality to the website. All of a sudden what used to work so well for your business is bogged down, barely keeping up and holding our marketing teams back from really leaping into digital marketing and turning the website into a lead generation tool.
If you’re starting to worry that your WordPress website is holding you back, here are a few signs that you might be outgrowing WordPress…
You find yourself compromising on what you want.
\nPlugins. Am I right? Plugins were always to website features what apps were to user needs with the iPhone. There was always a plugin that did what you needed. Fast forward a few years, and as more and more developers stop supporting their plugins, there are fewer secure options to get your goals accomplished inside WordPress. This means you’ve added multiple plugins to accomplish a goal or help with a workflow, resulting in piecemeal websites bogged down by plugins that aren’t properly supported which leads to security holes and slower load times.
\nYour site keeps getting hacked
\nThe security holes that come with outdated plugins really get you in trouble. The multitudes of WordPress plugins and the clunky way you piece together your website might’ve worked when you were just getting going, but once those plugins went out of date they opened huge security holes and it’s possible your site has been compromised. WordPress is well known for their vulnerability issues. While captcha and security tools can help, attacks can slip through from time to time, because the majority of the plugins hosted on WordPress are third party plugins.
\nUpdates break your website
\nWordPress core, themes, and plugins are almost constantly updating to make up for the security vulnerabilities and attacks, but every time they update to accommodate those security gaps, it has the potential to break your website, especially when the developers that created your theme or plugins may not be updating at the same rate that WordPress. Approaching these plugin updates reactively can mean that you experience downtime before your developer can get in to fix these items - and as a growing business, that downtime becomes more and more costly if you’re relying on your website for any kind of revenue.
But it’s not just outdated plugins that can cause your website to break, but misplaced code and styling within WordPress core, themes and plugins can cause updates to break your website as well. Oftentimes developers hack together CSS and HTML and put it in the wrong places or fail to create child themes and directly update the theme files, instead. They may also target part of the structure that shouldn’t be targeted within a theme or even modify core WordPress files. An example of this might be when you ask a developer to update your WordPress site, and after updating the styling is totally out of whack. Some WordPress themes have very specific rules around how the theme should be updated and developers don’t always follow them or leave behind appropriate documentation, which may work if they’re the only one updating the website long term, but if things are misplaced and themes aren’t treated with best practices, updates will inevitably break your site.
You’re exploring integrations
\nAs your business grows, you’ll find that the pieces of software that you use to manage your day to day items may not serve you as well. You might bring on more robust applications, and eventually you might even want to integrate those applications closely with your website. Customer portals, custom calculators, learning centers, the details of customer registration, event management or sales handoffs are just some of the integrations and applications that customers have approached us to design on their behalf. Integrating these applications or building integrations between an already bogged down website and business application needs to be considered carefully. Investing so heavily in advanced integrations should be part of a really comprehensive evaluation of all your technology - including your website.
\nYour site is slow AF
\nWe discuss the frustration associated with bogged down websites all the time - and it’s a huge segment of the reason that a lot of companies decide to completely overhaul their website. Piecing together functionality that you need using multiple plugins for form capture, graphic displays and chatbots for example is great from a functionality and feature perspective, but pile that on with photo gallery and product management and things start to get slower and slower. Your new marketing manager has even more great ideas - but your site is already too slow and you know that slow loading sites are not good for Google *or* user conversions.
Your website served you well for a long time, but you can’t expect what you started with to continue serving you through this growth period in your business. Just like you upgrade phones and computers and processes, you need to upgrade your website framework and CMS. If you’re experiencing any of the above, it’s very likely that it’s time to upgrade from WordPress and hiring a skilled, experienced developer is gonna get you there.
It’s no secret that at deckerdevs we’re HubSpot advocates. We’ve invested a lot of time and funding into growing our knowledge base and experience in HubSpot. We’ve been around since the onset of this powerful automation software and as we continue to watch their CMS grow, we know we can count on the same boundary-pushing best practices, security, user friendliness and attention to detail they’ve always moved forward in their marketing software. Is HubSpot CMS the solution for every business that has outgrown WordPress? Not necessarily. But it might be.
What’s your WordPress struggle?
Let us know what you’re dealing with in the comments or book some time and let’s chat it out.
\n
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
Businesses grow. It’s what they’re all meant to do and it’s what we as business owners want. But as they grow, businesses and their teams add line of business applications, additional employees, marketing functions, content and additional functionality to the website. All of a sudden what used to work so well for your business is bogged down, barely keeping up and holding our marketing teams back from really leaping into digital marketing and turning the website into a lead generation tool.
If you’re starting to worry that your WordPress website is holding you back, here are a few signs that you might be outgrowing WordPress…
You find yourself compromising on what you want.
\nPlugins. Am I right? Plugins were always to website features what apps were to user needs with the iPhone. There was always a plugin that did what you needed. Fast forward a few years, and as more and more developers stop supporting their plugins, there are fewer secure options to get your goals accomplished inside WordPress. This means you’ve added multiple plugins to accomplish a goal or help with a workflow, resulting in piecemeal websites bogged down by plugins that aren’t properly supported which leads to security holes and slower load times.
\nYour site keeps getting hacked
\nThe security holes that come with outdated plugins really get you in trouble. The multitudes of WordPress plugins and the clunky way you piece together your website might’ve worked when you were just getting going, but once those plugins went out of date they opened huge security holes and it’s possible your site has been compromised. WordPress is well known for their vulnerability issues. While captcha and security tools can help, attacks can slip through from time to time, because the majority of the plugins hosted on WordPress are third party plugins.
\nUpdates break your website
\nWordPress core, themes, and plugins are almost constantly updating to make up for the security vulnerabilities and attacks, but every time they update to accommodate those security gaps, it has the potential to break your website, especially when the developers that created your theme or plugins may not be updating at the same rate that WordPress. Approaching these plugin updates reactively can mean that you experience downtime before your developer can get in to fix these items - and as a growing business, that downtime becomes more and more costly if you’re relying on your website for any kind of revenue.
But it’s not just outdated plugins that can cause your website to break, but misplaced code and styling within WordPress core, themes and plugins can cause updates to break your website as well. Oftentimes developers hack together CSS and HTML and put it in the wrong places or fail to create child themes and directly update the theme files, instead. They may also target part of the structure that shouldn’t be targeted within a theme or even modify core WordPress files. An example of this might be when you ask a developer to update your WordPress site, and after updating the styling is totally out of whack. Some WordPress themes have very specific rules around how the theme should be updated and developers don’t always follow them or leave behind appropriate documentation, which may work if they’re the only one updating the website long term, but if things are misplaced and themes aren’t treated with best practices, updates will inevitably break your site.
You’re exploring integrations
\nAs your business grows, you’ll find that the pieces of software that you use to manage your day to day items may not serve you as well. You might bring on more robust applications, and eventually you might even want to integrate those applications closely with your website. Customer portals, custom calculators, learning centers, the details of customer registration, event management or sales handoffs are just some of the integrations and applications that customers have approached us to design on their behalf. Integrating these applications or building integrations between an already bogged down website and business application needs to be considered carefully. Investing so heavily in advanced integrations should be part of a really comprehensive evaluation of all your technology - including your website.
\nYour site is slow AF
\nWe discuss the frustration associated with bogged down websites all the time - and it’s a huge segment of the reason that a lot of companies decide to completely overhaul their website. Piecing together functionality that you need using multiple plugins for form capture, graphic displays and chatbots for example is great from a functionality and feature perspective, but pile that on with photo gallery and product management and things start to get slower and slower. Your new marketing manager has even more great ideas - but your site is already too slow and you know that slow loading sites are not good for Google *or* user conversions.
Your website served you well for a long time, but you can’t expect what you started with to continue serving you through this growth period in your business. Just like you upgrade phones and computers and processes, you need to upgrade your website framework and CMS. If you’re experiencing any of the above, it’s very likely that it’s time to upgrade from WordPress and hiring a skilled, experienced developer is gonna get you there.
It’s no secret that at deckerdevs we’re HubSpot advocates. We’ve invested a lot of time and funding into growing our knowledge base and experience in HubSpot. We’ve been around since the onset of this powerful automation software and as we continue to watch their CMS grow, we know we can count on the same boundary-pushing best practices, security, user friendliness and attention to detail they’ve always moved forward in their marketing software. Is HubSpot CMS the solution for every business that has outgrown WordPress? Not necessarily. But it might be.
What’s your WordPress struggle?
Let us know what you’re dealing with in the comments or book some time and let’s chat it out.
\n
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
Businesses grow. It’s what they’re all meant to do and it’s what we as business owners want. But as they grow, businesses and their teams add line of business applications, additional employees, marketing functions, content and additional functionality to the website. All of a sudden what used to work so well for your business is bogged down, barely keeping up and holding our marketing teams back from really leaping into digital marketing and turning the website into a lead generation tool.
If you’re starting to worry that your WordPress website is holding you back, here are a few signs that you might be outgrowing WordPress…
You find yourself compromising on what you want.
\nPlugins. Am I right? Plugins were always to website features what apps were to user needs with the iPhone. There was always a plugin that did what you needed. Fast forward a few years, and as more and more developers stop supporting their plugins, there are fewer secure options to get your goals accomplished inside WordPress. This means you’ve added multiple plugins to accomplish a goal or help with a workflow, resulting in piecemeal websites bogged down by plugins that aren’t properly supported which leads to security holes and slower load times.
\nYour site keeps getting hacked
\nThe security holes that come with outdated plugins really get you in trouble. The multitudes of WordPress plugins and the clunky way you piece together your website might’ve worked when you were just getting going, but once those plugins went out of date they opened huge security holes and it’s possible your site has been compromised. WordPress is well known for their vulnerability issues. While captcha and security tools can help, attacks can slip through from time to time, because the majority of the plugins hosted on WordPress are third party plugins.
\nUpdates break your website
\nWordPress core, themes, and plugins are almost constantly updating to make up for the security vulnerabilities and attacks, but every time they update to accommodate those security gaps, it has the potential to break your website, especially when the developers that created your theme or plugins may not be updating at the same rate that WordPress. Approaching these plugin updates reactively can mean that you experience downtime before your developer can get in to fix these items - and as a growing business, that downtime becomes more and more costly if you’re relying on your website for any kind of revenue.
But it’s not just outdated plugins that can cause your website to break, but misplaced code and styling within WordPress core, themes and plugins can cause updates to break your website as well. Oftentimes developers hack together CSS and HTML and put it in the wrong places or fail to create child themes and directly update the theme files, instead. They may also target part of the structure that shouldn’t be targeted within a theme or even modify core WordPress files. An example of this might be when you ask a developer to update your WordPress site, and after updating the styling is totally out of whack. Some WordPress themes have very specific rules around how the theme should be updated and developers don’t always follow them or leave behind appropriate documentation, which may work if they’re the only one updating the website long term, but if things are misplaced and themes aren’t treated with best practices, updates will inevitably break your site.
You’re exploring integrations
\nAs your business grows, you’ll find that the pieces of software that you use to manage your day to day items may not serve you as well. You might bring on more robust applications, and eventually you might even want to integrate those applications closely with your website. Customer portals, custom calculators, learning centers, the details of customer registration, event management or sales handoffs are just some of the integrations and applications that customers have approached us to design on their behalf. Integrating these applications or building integrations between an already bogged down website and business application needs to be considered carefully. Investing so heavily in advanced integrations should be part of a really comprehensive evaluation of all your technology - including your website.
\nYour site is slow AF
\nWe discuss the frustration associated with bogged down websites all the time - and it’s a huge segment of the reason that a lot of companies decide to completely overhaul their website. Piecing together functionality that you need using multiple plugins for form capture, graphic displays and chatbots for example is great from a functionality and feature perspective, but pile that on with photo gallery and product management and things start to get slower and slower. Your new marketing manager has even more great ideas - but your site is already too slow and you know that slow loading sites are not good for Google *or* user conversions.
Your website served you well for a long time, but you can’t expect what you started with to continue serving you through this growth period in your business. Just like you upgrade phones and computers and processes, you need to upgrade your website framework and CMS. If you’re experiencing any of the above, it’s very likely that it’s time to upgrade from WordPress and hiring a skilled, experienced developer is gonna get you there.
It’s no secret that at deckerdevs we’re HubSpot advocates. We’ve invested a lot of time and funding into growing our knowledge base and experience in HubSpot. We’ve been around since the onset of this powerful automation software and as we continue to watch their CMS grow, we know we can count on the same boundary-pushing best practices, security, user friendliness and attention to detail they’ve always moved forward in their marketing software. Is HubSpot CMS the solution for every business that has outgrown WordPress? Not necessarily. But it might be.
What’s your WordPress struggle?
Let us know what you’re dealing with in the comments or book some time and let’s chat it out.
\n
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?
Businesses grow. It’s what they’re all meant to do and it’s what we as business owners want. But as they grow, businesses and their teams add line of business applications, additional employees, marketing functions, content and additional functionality to the website. All of a sudden what used to work so well for your business is bogged down, barely keeping up and holding our marketing teams back from really leaping into digital marketing and turning the website into a lead generation tool.
If you’re starting to worry that your WordPress website is holding you back, here are a few signs that you might be outgrowing WordPress…
You find yourself compromising on what you want.
\nPlugins. Am I right? Plugins were always to website features what apps were to user needs with the iPhone. There was always a plugin that did what you needed. Fast forward a few years, and as more and more developers stop supporting their plugins, there are fewer secure options to get your goals accomplished inside WordPress. This means you’ve added multiple plugins to accomplish a goal or help with a workflow, resulting in piecemeal websites bogged down by plugins that aren’t properly supported which leads to security holes and slower load times.
\nYour site keeps getting hacked
\nThe security holes that come with outdated plugins really get you in trouble. The multitudes of WordPress plugins and the clunky way you piece together your website might’ve worked when you were just getting going, but once those plugins went out of date they opened huge security holes and it’s possible your site has been compromised. WordPress is well known for their vulnerability issues. While captcha and security tools can help, attacks can slip through from time to time, because the majority of the plugins hosted on WordPress are third party plugins.
\nUpdates break your website
\nWordPress core, themes, and plugins are almost constantly updating to make up for the security vulnerabilities and attacks, but every time they update to accommodate those security gaps, it has the potential to break your website, especially when the developers that created your theme or plugins may not be updating at the same rate that WordPress. Approaching these plugin updates reactively can mean that you experience downtime before your developer can get in to fix these items - and as a growing business, that downtime becomes more and more costly if you’re relying on your website for any kind of revenue.
But it’s not just outdated plugins that can cause your website to break, but misplaced code and styling within WordPress core, themes and plugins can cause updates to break your website as well. Oftentimes developers hack together CSS and HTML and put it in the wrong places or fail to create child themes and directly update the theme files, instead. They may also target part of the structure that shouldn’t be targeted within a theme or even modify core WordPress files. An example of this might be when you ask a developer to update your WordPress site, and after updating the styling is totally out of whack. Some WordPress themes have very specific rules around how the theme should be updated and developers don’t always follow them or leave behind appropriate documentation, which may work if they’re the only one updating the website long term, but if things are misplaced and themes aren’t treated with best practices, updates will inevitably break your site.
You’re exploring integrations
\nAs your business grows, you’ll find that the pieces of software that you use to manage your day to day items may not serve you as well. You might bring on more robust applications, and eventually you might even want to integrate those applications closely with your website. Customer portals, custom calculators, learning centers, the details of customer registration, event management or sales handoffs are just some of the integrations and applications that customers have approached us to design on their behalf. Integrating these applications or building integrations between an already bogged down website and business application needs to be considered carefully. Investing so heavily in advanced integrations should be part of a really comprehensive evaluation of all your technology - including your website.
\nYour site is slow AF
\nWe discuss the frustration associated with bogged down websites all the time - and it’s a huge segment of the reason that a lot of companies decide to completely overhaul their website. Piecing together functionality that you need using multiple plugins for form capture, graphic displays and chatbots for example is great from a functionality and feature perspective, but pile that on with photo gallery and product management and things start to get slower and slower. Your new marketing manager has even more great ideas - but your site is already too slow and you know that slow loading sites are not good for Google *or* user conversions.
Your website served you well for a long time, but you can’t expect what you started with to continue serving you through this growth period in your business. Just like you upgrade phones and computers and processes, you need to upgrade your website framework and CMS. If you’re experiencing any of the above, it’s very likely that it’s time to upgrade from WordPress and hiring a skilled, experienced developer is gonna get you there.
It’s no secret that at deckerdevs we’re HubSpot advocates. We’ve invested a lot of time and funding into growing our knowledge base and experience in HubSpot. We’ve been around since the onset of this powerful automation software and as we continue to watch their CMS grow, we know we can count on the same boundary-pushing best practices, security, user friendliness and attention to detail they’ve always moved forward in their marketing software. Is HubSpot CMS the solution for every business that has outgrown WordPress? Not necessarily. But it might be.
What’s your WordPress struggle?
Let us know what you’re dealing with in the comments or book some time and let’s chat it out.
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WordPress CMS has always been a great way for a small business to develop a pretty customized website. You choose a theme or framework, add some plugins and you’re off to the races. Even a technically savvy small business owner could theoretically walk themselves through basic WordPress development - and many have (though we don’t recommend this).
The problem is, over time this piecemeal approach that served you well in your initial stages ends up cumbersome and doesn’t quite suit your business as it grows. Small businesses outgrow their initial Wordpress framework all the time and we help drive them to a custom solution. How do you know when your business has outgrown Wordpress, though?