Yoast SEO Founder: WordPress Admin Interface Is “Simply Bad”

Yoast SEO plugin founder, Joost de Valk, published a critical appraisal of the WordPress user interface (UI), saying that it makes it “harder to use” and may be a reason that contributes to WordPress losing market share to companies like Wix and Shopify.

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The official WordPress design philosophy states that they want to make WordPress easier to use with every new version published.

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They write that it’s their goal that the “non-technically minded” user is the one they design for so that they can be set up within five minutes with a fully functional website.

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However the reality of how easy WordPress is to use falls far short of their philosophy statement.

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Even the developer of WordPress itself, Matt Mullenweg, said that designing in Wix is faster than doing the same thing in WordPress.

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Joost points the finger at the current WordPress admin user interface as a contributing factor to why WordPress is confusing to use.

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Yoast SEO Founder: WordPress Admin Interface Is “Simply Bad”

Joost de Valk calls out the disorganized state of the WordPress UI and encourages devoting more resources to modernizing it

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Yoast SEO plugin founder, Joost de Valk, published a critical appraisal of the WordPress user interface (UI), saying that it makes it “harder to use” and may be a reason that contributes to WordPress losing market share to companies like Wix and Shopify.

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The official WordPress design philosophy states that they want to make WordPress easier to use with every new version published.

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They write that it’s their goal that the “non-technically minded” user is the one they design for so that they can be set up within five minutes with a fully functional website.

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However the reality of how easy WordPress is to use falls far short of their philosophy statement.

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Even the developer of WordPress itself, Matt Mullenweg, said that designing in Wix is faster than doing the same thing in WordPress.

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Joost points the finger at the current WordPress admin user interface as a contributing factor to why WordPress is confusing to use.

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