WordPress is Buggy, So What?

A reader on a blog that I contributed to recently leaved as a comment about her disapproval of WordPress. She thought WordPress is useless because every so often we can expect a new release with bug fixes. Worse still, security issues appear quite often.

She later offered an alternative to WordPress and recommended others to try it out. Fair enough, but is switching the right solution to the problem?

I don’t think so. Just think about it for a moment.

If Ford is the most popular car brand, isn’t it logical that you will see more Ford cars in the repair workshop than other brands? Does that mean Ford is most problematic of all brands?

WordPress currently is the most popular blog software. Without a doubt, you will hear many complaints about it because it can’t satisfy everyone. Some people need flexibility. They want to be able to extend the software only if they need a feature. That keeps the software lean and fast.

Most newbies, however, want it to work out of the box. They want everything you can imagine under the earth, and then some.

Also, with third party code in themes and plugins, people will find problems. The blame often goes to WordPress.

As it becomes popular, more crackers spend their time to find vulnerabilities. I’m not surprised at all if WordPress is more buggy than other software if the focus is on it.

It is not that other software is more secure. To be fair, it may be the case, but there is always a chance that it is worse than WordPress. Just that people haven’t found out about it yet.

As a blogger, it is our responsibility to make sure that our blog is running smoothly. If you don’t want to learn how to upgrade, ask a friend for help or hire professionals. It should be seen as a cost of running a business.

People should stop blaming WordPress. After all, it is free software.

Free doesn’t mean it is maintenance free. The software is available at no cost but you still need to install, customize and maintain it.

Free also doesn’t mean you will get support anytime you want. For reliable support, you still need to seek in other places. Or do it yourself.

For me, WordPress satisfy almost all my web publishing needs so instead of wasting time on other publishing platform, I think it would be better to spend time on building and customizing what already worked for me.

If I have to upgrade every week, I don’t mind as I learn how to do it quickly without down time at all. Throughout years of working with opensource software, I never find any software that is bug free.

In fact, it will always be so. The more popular the software is, the more bugs people find in it. Seeing it positively, that makes the software better in the long run.

I don’t want to throw the baby out along with the bath water. Do you?

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