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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So why would anyone use a paid for CMS?
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For several reasons:
1) the bad press from some people, an idea propagated by coders who, instead of working with WP are afraid of losing business. I mean, if those guys who are so smart that they could fake a moon landing are using it, I'll assume they know a tad little bit more than a disgruntled coder in a basement.
2) Like The Doc said, it really didn't have a good multimedia handling. UNTIL TODAY
. The default is really good though, just that it takes more steps than needed. If you add plugins... well, there's nothing even close. Bar none.
3) People didn't know about all the power of WP until a few months ago, and in adult there were a few of us letting people know what they were missing. Now people is ready.
4) People who is comfortable and already using a CMS won't see the need to change. Plus, changing to WP (or any other CMS) could be a real problem since all existing adult CMS do it almost impossible in order to prevent this.
5) For the same reason people still sign up to paysites even though most of what they're paying for is available for free
6) Because there's a misconception about WP and its "free" status. If you want to run it as a CMS, you'll need to modify it. If you don't know how, then you'll need to pay someone to do it. If you know how, well, it's free (minus your time). The difference is that NOTHING is impossible with WP (at least that I found) and you can do the most crazy idea you could think of, while most adult CMS are restricted to their existing CLOSED SOURCE code. And quite probably, a custom code WP solution will still be cheaper (and light years more powerful) than any existing "off the shelf" CMS
7) WP wasn't really thought for adult, which has its own specifications. NOW IT IS
8) WP is so powerful and evolves so fast that its own power and speed of upgrades are kinda overwhelming for some people who like to live 5-10 years behind.
9) Many people didn't realize that with WP they have a CMS for eternity. And it will only evolve. And you have the support of tens of thousands people in any language 24/7. And by the time I wrote this post, chances are a new improvement in core, or a new plugin, or theme, or enhancement has been added (probably more than one). The day they realize what they're missing, there will be no turning back
10) Can't believe you still try to argue from a point of absolute ignorance on the subject
do you have enough reasons?