Building HTML 5 Niche Sites for Flipping No More Wordpress

I've been using Wordpress for years and every so often, some jackhole hacks one of the sites. It's a pain in the ass but I've dealt with it. Now that I've been flipping sites, it's become more of a big deal. Wordpress and other PHP based platforms are notorious for having vulnerabilities due to backdoors in plugins and themes.

Well, a blog I sold got hacked a month after the new owner took possession and I had a long hard conversation with the client. What I did realize however is that none of my niche sites really needed to be based on Wordpress and the hassle of dealing with future snafus like that one sours me on continuing to build on that platform. My HTML sites are solid and most buyers are not looking to do blogging anyway.

How many people here on this forum still find Wordpress useful for flipping and how many just code their sites? I'm interested to see if anyone else have had issues with WP in the past.

I guess it depends who your clients are. If your clients are experienced and know how to manage websites without the WP dashboard, then you could have an advantage. If your clients are completely green and you would have to teach them HTML in order to use the website, then you might just create more headaches.

A purely static HTML website will of course be more secure than WP, but how complex are your sites? Do you risk introducing vulnerabilities by coding them yourself?

Most of my sites are about 40 - 50 pages. They cover a sub-niche with branches in a silo structure; all with original content. New content is added to the "News" section. Ads are built in. I've found that embedding a Tumblr blog in each site has been the best option. It's way safer and I've been able to find high ranking expired tumblr accounts that give an extra boost to the site. Everything is seamless since the blog template matches the theme. I use domains that already have good stats but the Tumblr accounts seem to also help. So far, this strategy has held up well.

Sounds like you're doing really well! It's been a while since I've coded sites "by hand," but am I right in thinking that these are purely static pages?

The Tumblr idea is very good and I've seen that done purposefully for SEO reasons as well.

It will be interesting to see how the new editor in wp 5 changes things. I have both static and php sites.

Approximately for how long, from start to close of sale, for the sites you are selling? I am curious to learn around how much time you are investing into each site before selling and moving on to the next.