A few months after using a static document for the front page of this here domain, I’ve reverted to a standard dynamic page. It looks the same, but without the “this is a static HTML document” disclaimer at the way bottom. I discovered that the WordPress plugins had a hard time updating, I couldn’t preview posts, the native WordPress search didn’t work, some tags and category pages didn’t load properly. Out of all of these kinks that formed, most annoying to me was the errors in editing and saving template files in the admin area (WordPress > Appearance > Theme File Editor). I had to go into the actual file manager on my server and edit them there.
It’s rather annoying that WordPress has such an unintuitive dependency, but that’s how it goes. WordPress has been around for almost 20 years—plenty of time to for the spaghetti code to be finished cooking, and the chili-splatter UX to be served.
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WordPress is an all or nothing proposition.
True. I could have looked for a plugin that accomplishes what I needed, but that’s not worth installing yet another customization.