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WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform

Leaving the current drama around WordPress.org aside for now, I believe that there is a use case for WordPress that is heavily underutilized: Using WordPress as a platform for self-hosting. When people think WordPress, they think publishing platform. And, of course, that's its nature. It was built for expressing yourself publicly on the internet. But as we have seen over the years, it is also a pretty good framework on which—through its plugin system—almost anything can be built on top […]

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@alex I have been using Wordpress since 2004 or so. Before that I needed either to re-work the navigation each time I added a page, or use server side include to make navigation updates simpler. Classicpress is being developed in parallel.