Brandon KellyOct 16, 2024
Anyone have a WP site that makes heavy use of ACF, they’d be willing to share? #WordPress #CraftCMS
Show threadMatthias AndraschOct 16, 2024

@brandon the challenge it's not ACF itself, the challenge for the switch to #craftcms is most likely ...

- learn to use Composer, especially deploy with it (many devs still use SFTP upload to just upload the updated child theme directory)
- replacing the plug & play approach - install a theme, add plugins which already ship the frontend code and display stuff
- offer alternative to the page builder approach like Elementor, Divi, etc.
- WP has pages and blog posts structure by default

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Show threadMatthias AndraschOct 16, 2024

@brandon Agencies and freelancers could be convinced, they maybe rely on a more professional approach like https://roots.io/sage/ already. Which is more like CraftCMS.

But the cost to switch is building a new base theme for them and getting confident in deploying and running craft + getting confident / choosing the best plugins. Just one example: Selecting a forms plugins - since this is crucial.

The pathway could be improved for making the switch? Currently it's a lot of work to start? 2/

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Show threadRichard ReitzensteinOct 16, 2024
@mandrasch @brandon in the tidal wave of WP junk I was getting on Threads, Craft seemed underrepresented as an alternative. The consensus does seem to be that it’s too hard to get going. As someone who’s spent many years iterating on a ‘starter project’ and learning as I go, that doesn’t bother me - but it does seem like there’d be a space for either a wider range of demo sites or support guides, if not a theme marketplace, to get people on their feet.
Leevi GrahamOct 16, 2024
Show threadBrandon Kelly
@reitzenstein @mandrasch 💯 We’re working on a new, simple blog starter, in a variety of front ends, which should help get newcomers on their feet.
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Show threadMatthias AndraschOct 16, 2024

@brandon @reitzenstein Awesome!! 🥰🎉

Just optional feedback:

As agency dev I had to implement more "reference / project directories" with filter, search, hierarchy, breadcrumb, tags, custom url slug, navigation, etc. - than I had to do news/blog sections.

Blog sections have often a similiar feature set, but you'll get these features for WP out of the box. So don't know if this will really convince devs. Building a reference/project "directory" search & filter structure is lot harder in WP.

Show threadMatthias AndraschOct 16, 2024
@brandon @reitzenstein the real world app challenge https://codebase.show/projects/realworld could be an interesting starting point as well
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