Let’s put things into context here, WordPress is huge, its the backbone to the vast majority of the worlds websites, it can be used by anyone, it’s cheap (well, until you decide you want your website to perform, then spend a fortune on plug-ins) and you can build some good looking websites. These are all facts… so why did beHIVE Design stop using wordpress?

Well we actually stopped several years ago. We like to think we’re generally ahead of the curve when it comes to small business marketing, web trends, new technologies and all that. When we took a hard look at the WordPress platform we ended up swallowing some reality pills (massive horse-sized reality pills that we had to chew). It was not nice.

The five main reasons WordPress has had its day are security flaws, uninspiring designs messy backends, errors and bugs and above all, the Content Management System - that’s the part our clients really hated. Our favourite quote summing up wordpress is "It's a behemoth of spaghetti code that's written like it's still 2005".

We’re a positive bunch here at beHIVE Design Ltd so let’s not focus too much on WordPress issues (they’ve been well documented all over the internet)… because we found the solution! We moved to a white lable version of Architect Pro and we now host our websites on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) network. Long story short, the sites we build are lightning-fast websites, totally secure and our clients enjoy the best CMS on the market.

WordPress is old tech, it was old ten years ago, and that’s a really really long time in this game. We found something better and we haven’t looked back. So why blog about it? Well, the truth is we get a lot of potential clients assume we use WordPress and are sometimes confused when we say ‘hell no’! So now you know :-)