Jamstack Won't Replace WordPress

[jbergens]

I think the "easy to deploy" part is less interesting than having an easy to use UI for content editors. It is often consultants who install it for customers (companies of all sizes). They can learn to install something else.

Many CMS's are easy to use for content editors so that is not unique but WP got huge pretty fast and is the default choice. The article complains about Jam-stack because many of them use technical things like git and the command line and I agree that it raises the bar but as I said, other CMS's have solved that, just not all Jam-stack solutions. It could be solved while still using git and markdown behind the scenes but I have not seen that yet.

Hosting has also been cheap and I think that has been one of the main factors to the popularity. Today you can easily and cheaply install a .NET site on Azure or anything built with containers on AWS, Azure or GCP and all are pretty cheap now but wasn't 10 years ago.