I built a custom website. Am I missing out on WordPress plugins?

It's mainly due to the conveniance in having SEO for content writing and optimizing the pages I am interested in the plkugins.

My site will be a news site in a niche that will also have some tools where the user can compare products and read up on the subject. There will be around 10 pages but only the news/blog one will be constantly updated.
 
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I think I will keep on going with my custom website, thanks for the replies guys
 
Crazyfire said:
Wordpress is always updating and it always opens new doors for hacking it. If something is so vulnerable that it has even a discussion about being constantly hacked, one should think twice before using it. Constant updates and maintenance prevent that, tho. I just like my websites to be built and forget about constant maintenance for the software part.
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I realize there's a lot of WP hacking.

But if you look at some of the top most valuable sites out there, they use WP, so it can't be as bad as some have said it is.

Obviously those using nulled themes and plugins will likely get hacked. Nobody nulls things for free, there's something in it for them.
 
If you think you're missing out on the SEO plugins, there's no need to worry.

Just learn more in-depth about on-page SEO, and make your own "plugin" for your site.

I've done it before with some janky PHP and it's worked well.

All these plugins do is just check if your content passes a number of conditions they have.

It might be more complicated depending on how you've got your site set up, but you can even do it manually and there shouldn't be a problem.
 
Some time ago I had my own php script that I called “SEO framework”. It was written in plain php and main fuctions were dyniamic content, pagination, and convenient meta tags, titles, other SEO stuff control.

God I’m glad I found WP again (I hated it before because of lack of customizability). Turns out I was just too ignorant learn things on WordPress. You have 100% freedom and anything can be achieved on it, but the best part you don’t need to do anything because there are plugins for EVERYTHING.

I believe people who say that WP is THE MOST unsecure CMS have read 1 article about it and now says that like they’re cyber security experts. Yes there are vulnerabilities and always will like in all other CMS. No one and nothing is safe.

If you run a simple blog all you need to do is use reliable plugins, and do backups. If someone would managed to delete everything or do something stupid you would backup db and maybe lose dollar or two because of downtime.
 
WordPress Developers often have Non-WordPress Versions as the code is translateable. I know that I code both for my plugins.
 
cooxer said:
Some time ago I had my own php script that I called “SEO framework”. It was written in plain php and main fuctions were dyniamic content, pagination, and convenient meta tags, titles, other SEO stuff control.

God I’m glad I found WP again (I hated it before because of lack of customizability). Turns out I was just too ignorant learn things on WordPress. You have 100% freedom and anything can be achieved on it, but the best part you don’t need to do anything because there are plugins for EVERYTHING.

I believe people who say that WP is THE MOST unsecure CMS have read 1 article about it and now says that like they’re cyber security experts. Yes there are vulnerabilities and always will like in all other CMS. No one and nothing is safe.

If you run a simple blog all you need to do is use reliable plugins, and do backups. If someone would managed to delete everything or do something stupid you would backup db and maybe lose dollar or two because of downtime.
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Can anything really be achieved on it? I made a dynamic comparison tool, product customization etc because I couldn't find any good enough on WordPress which was the sole reason why I chose to create my own website. Can I migrate this tool, the products and whatnot to WordPress without removing any functionality? I have my own CMS which I have been working quite a lot on.
 
Crazyfire said:
No, you are not missing anything.

Wordpress is one of the most insecure platforms to use for your web project.

If you can, stick with Laravel.
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I think you mispelled wordpress with joomla but nevermind.
 
I'm new to the game but from what I understand Google prioritizes ranking (one of many ranking factors) websites with unique footprints over cookie cutter Wordpress, Squarespace, Wix, etc sites. Flatfile CMS sites are also generally faster and less bloated and will help you rank as well as TTFB is a known ranking factor. I would stick with your Laravel site. Hope to learn enough PHP to dev one of my own in the future. Good luck!
 
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Continue using what you have now because there is no need to switch your site over to use WordPress. WordPress SEO plugins are not going to magically bring traffic to your site or get it ranked. The content on your site is more important than installing some plugin and thinking everything will be great. You still need to know how to perform on site SEO regardless if you use a plugin or not.
 
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