WordPress gets a bad rep. people naturally associate wordpress with being outdated because as the OG of blogs it’s been around forever – everyone remembers trying wordpress or some form of blogging in the 2000’s and not being impressed with the experience, then along came social media/micro blogging in the form of facebook so a lot of people left behind more DIY forms of self hosted blogging like wordpress. as someone who tried wordpress in 2004 and rediscovered wordpress 20 years later into its development, I’m glad I did.
ok quick pause. if you know zero about wordpress and here for Beyonce (totally understandable, I too am here for Beyonce), here’s a quick important primer on what makes WordPress dope and how this relates to Beyonce. first off WordPress is *open source* – this mean the code is freely available for anyone to use or develop and build on. the very huge upside of a 22 year old open source software ecosystem is there has been a TON of development, so many functions and features for wordpress exist that you can pretty much build anything you want with it. to bring the point home, Beyonce.com runs on WordPress – and dare I say if it’s good enough for Beyonce chances are it’s good enough for you.