WordPress was originally developed as a platform blogging, where you could publish a chronological list of posts or articles.
More and more features are added over time. So although the core of WordPress works as a blogging platform, it is also used for selling products online, handling private data, interacting with business systems or mode in business environments.
Over the years WordPress has added more functionality, allowing more flexibility in the original blogging approach and management content.
So WordPress is often considered a very cheap solution for creating a website. It's true if you're looking for something simple, and the opposite if you want to stand out flawlessly on the internet.
If you use WordPress in its basic mode, then hosting costs are minimal. However, the more customizations and addons-plugins there are, the more attention is needed to keep the site secure and stable.
We should mention that themes, plugins and addons that add functions, cost money and at the moment there are small shops that are getting rich (we have already mentioned the wpbeginner)
For custom WordPress sites, hosting should include active vulnerability monitoring and management. This means that the maintenance costs of WordPress are constantly growing since with the almost 60.000 plugins that exist, new vulnerabilities are constantly appearing.
WordPress and the anarchy of plugins
One of WordPress' strengths is also its biggest weakness. As we mentioned above, right now you can browse almost 60.000 plugins on your WordPress website. These plugins offer additional functionality to the WordPress platform.
The large problem όμως είναι ότι δεν υπάρχει έλεγχος ή κάποια μέθοδος για το πώς αναπτύσσονται τα πρόσθετα του WordPress. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι ο καθένας μπορεί να γράψει κώδικα, να τον ονομάσει πρόσθετο WordPress και να το ανεβάσει στην πλατφόρμα χωρίς πραγματική επίβλεψη στην ποιότητα, τη σταθερότητα ή την ασφάλεια.
For example, if you search for a plugin on the WordPress plugin site you will see endless pages of plugins. Some of these plugins were last tested on versions of WordPress 2010. If you are not careful about what you add to your site, you may be in for a surprise.
Although a friend and active supporter of open source, there are other platforms that generally use a standardized structure for plugins, and code contributions are peer-reviewed by other developers or the platform itself before being accepted.
So watch out for posts that mention WordPress as the perfect platform, there are usually vested interests.
