WordPress Website Design: Why It Gets Blamed for Other People's Mistakes
WordPress powers a very large share of the web, and it has a reputation problem. Slow. Bloated. Constantly breaking. Always getting hacked. Almost none of that is WordPress's fault. It's what happens when a platform this flexible is handed to people who treat flexibility as permission to install everything. Done carelessly, WordPress website design produces exactly the sluggish, fragile mess people complain about. Done with discipline, it runs serious business websites for years without drama. The difference isn't the platform. It's restraint. The plugin problem Here's the pattern that kills most WordPress sites. Something needs doing. Rather than solve it properly, a plugin gets installed. Then another for a slightly different job. Then a third that overlaps the first two. Nobody removes the ones that stopped being used. Two years later the site is running thirty-odd plugins from a dozen different developers, several abandoned, all loading scripts on every page wh...