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Written by Brandon Kelly on 2024-10-16 at 00:24

Anyone have a WP site that makes heavy use of ACF, they’d be willing to share? #WordPress #CraftCMS

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Written by Phil Johnston on 2024-10-16 at 01:08

@brandon I was looking at craftCMS yesterday but the proprietary license turned me away. Otherwise it looks great!

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Written by Brandon Kelly on 2024-10-16 at 01:41

@johnstonphilip The license helps keep a dedicated team of 16 people employed and focused on supporting/improving the software, unbeholden to VC/corporate interests :)

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Written by Matthias Andrasch on 2024-10-16 at 05:08

@brandon the challenge it's not ACF itself, the challenge for the switch to #craftcms is most likely ...

• learn to use Composer, especially deploy with it (many devs still use SFTP upload to just upload the updated child theme directory)

• replacing the plug & play approach - install a theme, add plugins which already ship the frontend code and display stuff

• offer alternative to the page builder approach like Elementor, Divi, etc.

• WP has pages and blog posts structure by default

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Written by Matthias Andrasch on 2024-10-16 at 05:12

@brandon Agencies and freelancers could be convinced, they maybe rely on a more professional approach like https://roots.io/sage/ already. Which is more like CraftCMS.

But the cost to switch is building a new base theme for them and getting confident in deploying and running craft + getting confident / choosing the best plugins. Just one example: Selecting a forms plugins - since this is crucial.

The pathway could be improved for making the switch? Currently it's a lot of work to start? 2/

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Written by Matthias Andrasch on 2024-10-16 at 05:17

@brandon There is also a potential blocker for hobbyist since they like the open source model for pet projects or clients with tiny budgets. So craft is no option for them currently.

They start by using 1-click WP installers in their webhosters dashboard - and start their project from there. And pay like 2-7€/month for unlimited WP sites. Not the target group of craft currently - but these are people how could form a wider community? Maybe 🤷 3/

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Written by Matthias Andrasch on 2024-10-16 at 05:31

@brandon I personally had a hard time with this as well - since I invest a lot of my personal time into demos & learning resources 👉 doing this for an open source community just feels "more justified" / better. 🤷

But I know this discussion from #KirbyCMS as well - it is required for financial sustainibility.

Wish there would be some middleground, because people motivated by the idea of "open source (communities)" will not easily switch to Kirby, Craft, etc. because of that 4/4

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