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design vs a canned solution

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On my vegan site I have managed to get WordPress working but there are lots of problems

the overhead is brutal, clearly it was not designed for the pricing model of cloud resources that are around today

so given PHP and some experience with development and the resources out there today, i wonder what I could achieve with a new design from scratch

besides the database itself, there are a lot of other objects out there that all need to be considered

Google Analytics, all the search engine validation strings etc

then bolting on a content delivery setup, those are now more widely available and they make sense for static assets such as images or video

guess I need to design a config file over and above the database...
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Is there a question in there somewhere?
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I have been using WordPress for my vegan site, it seems I have found a setup that works ok.

WordPress has an editor so you can modify any component if needed.

I was wondering how hard it would be to make an editor for development of a web site more generally?
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There are a number of very good Javascript WYSIWYG HTML editors. You can easily load, edit and save the HTML from a database or file. That's the easy part for a CMS.
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I have spent time learning how to use WordPress and it definitely has a lot of issues.

I have also had to work on dealing with adblock users etc, so there is a lot of things to figure out.

The idea of a WYSIWYG editors is desireable, I have noticed options for PHP in open source and some others for ASP.NET so it looks like that is not a concern

Back end code is where I spend 90% of my time, mostly to clean up databases etc.

Unleashed WP will gobble a lot of database, cleanup can reduce it by 75% or more
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Hey guys, I must agree that WordPress can be complicated for users that don't have enough experience with coding and stuff.
I've tried out the "drag & drop" websites (my recommendation is https://www.ucraft.me/, very easy and cheap) and everything was way more simple...and fun!
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hosted solutions are getting better but I prefer to use a datacenter that is more fend for yourself
Azure is more developer friendly than most others
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