Ask HN: How would you rebuild WordPress for the modern web?
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`Based on a modern stack` is a huge implied bias that something like PHP is old or bad. Who says that this is required for a modern CMS? If you ask me, PHP is a better bet for stability, predictability and well-known problem domain. Betting on React and Node.JS sounds good/sexy, but I immediately find myself hesitating because it sounds like you're worried about using hip technologies before defining whether or not they actually do anything more useful than the battle-tested ones.
Wordpress took off because even before it became a 1-click control panel install it could be installed in minutes with near-zero expertise on any of tens of thousands of cheap cPanel hosts starting around $1/mo.
WordPress does have good qualities. It’s very enabling, allowing anyone to create a decent looking web page relatively quickly. A healthy plugin ecosystem expands things much further.
My question is:
“What if we took all that’s good with WordPress, and rewrote it for the modern web - what would that look like?”
This is where where we’ve gotten up to so far - the next generation CMS for the modern web should be:
-Open source- This is something that’s really good about WordPress. It’s free, so you can install and manage it yourself, or go with one of the hosted solutions. There’s also a large community that supports it.
-Flexible- Anyone can quickly and easily create a web page.
-Design led- It should feature a clean and easy to use interface.
-Based on a modern stack- Things like Node.js and React are built for the modern web, so this new CMS should support those and more.
We wanted to start a conversation here. What are your thoughts on this, and what else should we be considering?
We created a landing page with information on this concept, where you can also sign up for updates: https://nubo.unubo.com