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WordPress guides and snippets
WordPress is a solid choice when you want to publish a lot of content, iterate quickly, and let non technical people edit pages without calling a developer. It can also become expensive and fragile when nobody owns updates, plugins, backups, and access control.
This section collects practical WordPress notes, small hardening patterns, and admin time savers. It sits under the static vs WordPress comparison and focuses on what actually matters when you are running a site, not just picking a tool.
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Quick truth
If you just need an online presence for social media, signage, vehicle livery, and a contact page, a static site is often the cheapest and most stable option.
If you want to write regularly, publish resources, and grow a library of content, WordPress is usually the easier experience for day to day editing.
Who should use WordPress vs static
Static is often better when
- You need a clean website for credibility, and you mainly push people to social platforms.
- Your site is mostly a small set of pages, with occasional updates.
- You care about speed, uptime, and low maintenance more than dashboards and widgets.
- You want predictable costs, and you do not want plugin subscriptions.
This is common for trades, small services, community projects, and “contact and trust” sites.
WordPress is often better when
- You are a creative person, or you have a team, and you want to publish frequently.
- You want posts, categories, search, media management, and editorial workflow built in.
- You need specific features that plugins handle well, such as events, membership, or forms.
- You want to scale content over time without rebuilding your site every year.
This is common for charities, campaigns, resource libraries, and any organisation that writes a lot.
WordPress advantages
Publishing experience
WordPress is built around writing, editing, and managing content. If your site lives or dies by articles, updates, and resources, WordPress is simply easier for most people than a static workflow.
Plugins and features
You can add forms, bookings, events, memberships, and more through plugins. When chosen carefully, this can save a lot of build time. The key is to keep plugins minimal and maintained.
Scalability for content
Categories, tags, search, and media tools are built in. It scales from a small site to a big library without you rebuilding the platform.
Familiarity
Many people have used WordPress before. That familiarity reduces training needs, and it is easier to find support when staff change.
WordPress downsides and costs
More moving parts
WordPress runs PHP, talks to a database, loads a theme, and often loads plugins. That creates a larger attack surface and more things that can break. It can be safe, but it needs ownership.
Ongoing maintenance cost
Core updates, plugin updates, backups, spam control, and security monitoring are ongoing tasks. If you ignore them, costs show up later in the form of downtime, hacks, or emergency cleanup work.
Plugin creep
The fastest way to ruin a WordPress site is to install a new plugin every time you want something. Each plugin is another dependency, another update stream, and sometimes another vulnerability.
Performance drift
WordPress can be fast, but it often drifts slower over time. Heavy themes, page builders, and bloated plugin stacks turn “fine” into “painful”. Static sites tend to stay fast by default.
Cost reality
A static site is often cheaper over time because there is less to patch and fewer paid add-ons.
WordPress can still be cost effective, but only when maintenance is planned, not ignored.
Guides and snippets
These pages are written to be usable by non technical admins, and helpful for developers who want a quick pattern without wading through forum threads.
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WordPress tag consolidation for SEO
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18 plus age gate snippet for WordPress
Lightweight 18 plus notice pattern without a heavy plugin, written with accessibility and caching in mind.
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WordPress offers and support
If you want help, this page outlines the WordPress related support and tidy up options Ki-Ki offers.
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Next steps
If you already have WordPress and it feels fragile, the best first step is usually to map what you have, then stabilise the basics before you change platforms. If you are deciding between WordPress and static, start with the main comparison page and work from your actual needs, not trends.