Disadvantages - Dark Side of WordPress
Customization friendliness:
If you require adding some customization to your website. You have to control your HTML, CSS, and PHP code. If you want to personalize uniquely, or to improve its design, you may need to write many complicated codes.
WordPress is generally used CMS. This alone makes WordPress a prime target for hackers here.
At a minimum, 50 percent of all WordPress vulnerabilities are Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, according to a popular security agency report.
Website security:
Undoubtedly the most important disadvantage of WordPress is its security. WordPress is an Open Source platform, and it massively on plugins and themes for more customization. Both the plugins and the themes are developed by different developers and companies
WordPress is generally used CMS. This alone makes WordPress a prime target for hackers here.
At a minimum, 50 percent of all WordPress vulnerabilities are Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, according to a popular security agency report.
Poor SEO Ranking:
WordPress only grants short SEO optimizing features in its combinations, which does not sufficiently help you rank in Google.
WordPress can generate quite a few difficulties. The common known one is the problem by the WordPress category and tagging method. If the matter is over-tagged or marked into many categories, Google will flag it as duplicate content, a factor that will badly influence your SEO rankings.
Slow Page Speed:
WordPress is still a slow platform because of all the added plugins, over-saturated databases, and code bases.
Page speed is critical to your website. You want a fast loading website so your audience doesn’t get irritable and choose to leave, which can cause you to lose traffic because they won’t see what you have to give.
For each plugin you add to your site, we add more code to the browser. That’s more to process, so the shorter code there is, the greater your loading speeds will be.
Frequent Updates:
This is the digital age, things are regularly changing to benefit and enhance the user experience. The whole maintenance method in WordPress can be considerably challenging, and you have to be ready to make adjustments to your plugins and theme in order to have a functional website. If you don’t have the budget or the experience in WordPress maintenance, it can be quite difficult.
Frequent updates are published for plugins often. These updates include major patches that fix holes in a plugin’s security.
In 2014, more than 50,000 websites got hacked from a defective plugin, Keep updated
Lots of Plugins:
The problems generated by plugins will vary depending on which plugins you have installed, how they’re coded, which ones are really active, and more. The largest problem with having a lot of plugins is that some can reduce your site speed.
Since 70% of visitors will exit a website if it takes longer than three seconds to load, watching the number of plugins you install is helpful to your website’s success.
If you require adding features to your website, your webmaster would have to search for plugins on WordPress. Some plugins are free and others come with a charge.
Initially, check to find out when the plugin was updated last. Some plugins are updated weekly. If you find a plugin that hasn’t been updated in the past year, don’t use it.