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Search for alternative to WordPress surges worldwide amidst rift between WP-Engine and Matt Mullenweg (www.techradar.com)

submitted 4 days ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.

The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.

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[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There's a fork of Wordpress which still has the old editor, which looks fine to me. I don't know anything about the people behind it though, and haven't yet tried it myself.

[–] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://www.classicpress.net/
It's pretty solid.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

A block editor being built into wordpress was inevitable and long overdue in fact, and they let elementor steal most of them market while they shuffled their feet on the issue