Got suckered into helping a non-profit with their web presence, and of course, it was a Wordpress site (at least it wasn’t a Facebook page).

Everything about WP is mildly infuriating at best, just regular infuriating at worst. Everything. If you know, you know. It’s like they tried so hard to make it “easy” to use that it went full circle into a fuster-cluck of unintuitive and clunky everything.

With every facet of the experience being an upsell, is there a tier where it’s just not horrible to use?

  • zeluko@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    idk about wordpress, but can imagine you can just get a domain transfer, pay another year with the new provider and then freely use it.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, you’d think. But I’m not expecting it to be straightforward or easy (if it is, then yay). I’m definitely going to look into it.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I think you need to wait like 90 days or so after a domain purchase or transfer to be able to transfer it.

          They did about a week ago, and that’s what I’m assuming is going to be the hangup. I’ve just not ever messed with domains registered through WordPress, so I’m also unclear if there are any other restrictions or paywalls (everything is an upsell with them). I get mine directly from a registrar and am familiar with transferring those.

            • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Thanks!

              I’ve got more than 60 days before they want to go live, so it’s certainly possible.

              I hadn’t looked into it at all yet (have had other things on my plate today), but my main fear was that the domain was registered to WP and just assigned to their account (e.g. WP “owned” the domain and we wouldn’t have standing to transfer it). Again, I have done zero research on that front and was largely assuming WP would make it difficult.

              I’ll talk to the stakeholders and see what they think. They’ve already paid for a year of hosting and additionally may want to stick with WP for “reasons” (in which case I’m stuck). They didn’t say why they chose it, so I dunno. We’ll see I guess. Thanks again.