Kalen Johnson (@Kalenjohnson)

Speaking to a few of these points:

1. WP is not that hard to move. I do it all the time between a local development URL (generally site.dev) to some staging server (generally staging.site.com or site.kalenjohnson.com), and finally to site.com. It’s not hard to move a WP site. Yes, you need to run a search-replace on the database, but that’s relatively trivial now with tools like WP-CLI and WP Migrate DB Pro.

2. Yes and no. WP is like any tool, it’s fragile in the wrong hands. Hand off a WP site to a client who doesn’t know anything about web development, and they might make a mess of things. Or don’t upgrade anything for a year then try to do it all at once. I’m actually impressed how *most* sites I’ve upgraded after being neglected for months to a year or more still upgrade relatively painlessly. But if you are installing any old plugin without actually testing it out, then yeah, you very well may have some headaches.

IMO it all comes back to how easy WP is to use and get started with. Any web application you could call fragile in the wrong hands. The issue with WP is it’s *too* easy to install plugins. You could take a rock-solidly built PHP application and hand it off to a client, and if they don’t manage it correctly, it could also start to break down and become *fragile* really quickly.

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