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“My Partner Wants to Use WordPress Because 50% of the Web Uses It. Help!”
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“I am building a website with my partner. He wants to use WordPress to build it, saying that 50% of the websites use it, so it must be good. I point to the high maintenance, and that hacked WordPress websites are way too common. We will need to use many plugins for the features we need, but UltimateWB has everything we need built-in. Einstein’s quote that insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and
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EmDash is getting attention as a new alternative to WordPress. Its creators describe it as a “spiritual successor to WordPress” built to rethink some of the problems that have accumulated around the traditional WordPress model. EmDash 1.0 was released in September 2026.
But if you’re considering EmDash because you’re frustrated with WordPress, there’s a bigger question to ask:
Does EmDash actually solve the problems you have with WordPress, or are you simply replacing one complicated website setup with another?
Let’s
... Continue readingBeehiiv Website Builder Review: The Problem Isn’t the Design – It’s the Lack of Control
Beehiiv is known as a good newsletter platform. Its Website Builder is another story.
Beehiiv markets the Website Builder as “Fully customizable” and says users can create websites with custom layouts, branding, images, content, fonts, colors, and more.
On another Beehiiv page, the claim is even stronger:
“NO CODE. NO LIMITS.”
and
"Our no-code website builder can give you a world-class website in minutes, not months. No design skills required."
But current Beehiiv customers are describing something very different. They
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Tagged ai, AI website builder, Beehiiv, beehiiv alternative, beehiiv review, Beehiiv vs UltimateWB, customizable, no-code, php
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Elementor’s “Angie” AI Is More Than Bloat: Credits, Subscriptions, and a Growing Platform Problem
If you’ve logged into your WordPress dashboard recently after updating Elementor, you’ve probably been greeted by an uninvited occupant sitting right in your editor bar: Angie, Elementor’s AI assistant.
Angie started out as a separate plugin. Elementor then moved it directly into the Editor workflow, putting an entry point right into the Editor Top Bar.
You open your page editor and boom - Angie is right there staring at you in the toolbar, acting for many as an
... Continue readingIs Weebly Getting Out of the Website-Builder Business?
Imagine spending years building a website for your business, organization, or personal project.
Then you get an announcement from your website builder telling you that the service is being wound down in your country.
Your website isn't disappearing immediately. But the company is telling you that the platform you've built it on is no longer going to be available where you live.
What’s Happening With Weebly
Weebly announced that it is winding down its services in 67
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Tagged downloadable website builder, hosted vs self-hosted, hosted website builder, hosted website builders, price hike, saas, SaaS website builders, web hosting choice, webflow, website migration, website ownership, website portability, weebly, weebly alternative, Weebly closing websites, Weebly countries, Weebly shutdown, Weebly website export, Weebly website migration, Wix
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Wix Harmony Is Now in Google Gemini. So Why Are Users Still Complaining?
Imagine you’re already chatting with Gemini or ChatGPT about your website.
Maybe you’re asking it what your homepage should look like. Maybe you’re asking it to come up with content for your business. Or maybe you simply tell it, “I need a website for my landscaping business.”
Now imagine the AI says, essentially, Sure. Let’s build it.
On August 24, 2026, Wix announced that people can connect Wix to Google Gemini and use @Wix to create a website with Wix
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Tagged ai, AI website builder, bloat, customizable, gemini, Google Gemini, php, Wix, wix alternative, wix editor, Wix Gemini integration, Wix Harmony, Wix Harmony complaints, Wix Harmony problems, Wix Harmony review, wix limitations, wix studio, Wix website builder
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WPForms and Rank Math: Did These WordPress Plugins Create a Backdoor With Admin Access?
There is a new kind of WordPress security issue that deserves a lot more attention.
It isn’t simply a case of a hacker discovering a vulnerability in a plugin.
It is a plugin itself introducing a mechanism that can give an outside service or AI system the ability to act on your WordPress site.
And two major WordPress plugins have recently put this issue in the spotlight: Rank Math and WPForms.
The situations are not identical, and it would
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Tagged administrative token, ai, ai agent, ai assistant, ai chat assistant, ai features, Awesome Motive, backdoor, claude, cursor, forum analytics, MCP, metadata, onboarding wizard, php, plugins, rank math, rank math support agent, schema, Search Engine Journal, security vulnerabilities, seo, seo plugin, setup checklist, Sybre Waaijer, third-party plugins, vulnerabilities, WAP, website security, WordPress, wordpress alternative, wordpress plugins, wordpress security, wp forms, wp forms lite
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Wix Says AI Website Owners Should Care About Portability. There’s Just One Problem.
Wix published an article on August 26, 2026, titled “How to make a website in an AI coding tool”, discussing the difference between AI coding tools that give you actual code and AI website builders that create websites inside a hosted platform.
Near the end of the article, in the “Making a website in an AI coding tool FAQ”
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Tagged ai, ai tool, cms, css, export, export code, export data, export website, hosted vs self-hosted, hosted website builder, html, javascript, ownership, portability, saas, Shopify, squarespace, vibe coding, webflow, webflow alternative, Wix, wix alternative
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WordPress 7.1 Broke WP Rocket: The Fatal Error and the Plugin Problem
WordPress 7.1 was released on August 19, 2026. Soon afterward, websites running WP Rocket began experiencing a fatal PHP error that could take the entire website offline, including the WordPress administration area.
WP Rocket released a fix the next day.
But the incident has become more than a story about one plugin needing an update. The problem had been publicly reported on GitHub to WP Rocket on July 6, while WordPress 7.1 was still in development. The report included
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Tagged alpha version, Cloudflare, critical issue, fatal error, fatal typerror, GitHub, plugin compatibility issues, plugin issues, third-party plugins, WordPress, wordpress 7.1, wordpress compatibility issues, wordpress development cycle, wordpress plugin, WordPress updates, wordpress updates broke website, wp rocket
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WordPress vs. UltimateWB for an Artist Website: Which Should You Choose?
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I'm an artist and want to create a website to showcase my work, sell digital downloads, and perhaps sell real prints too. So I'm researching website builders. Initially I thought to use Wix or Squarespace because I heard they are easy, but going deeper they seem too simple and won't have the customization options I need. I want to be able to style my website to show me. I need photo galleries, slideshows, and collages. I need e-commerce.
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