Title: why i stoped using wordpress!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# why i stoped using wordpress!

 *  [Abdessamad Idrissi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numediaweb/)
 * (@numediaweb)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-i-stoped-using-wordpress/)
 * I used to like wordpress before i even start using it! i did many comparissons
   with other tools then started using wp..
    Afterwards I started creating my own
   theme for wordpress using the template tags and it’s not easy; you must have 
   a great css knowledge, and you must put background images in divs inorder to 
   show em.. I succeeded on that part, but, the real hair-puling thing i wanted 
   to achieve with wordpress was; use drop-list menues with multi-langual plugins!,
   it’s impossible: to make a drop-down list/menue, you should write static text
   for menue title, i.e:
 * `<li><a href="?page_id=276">Home</a></li>`
 * Then use css li ol to format the menu. The probleme with that, you **can not **
   translate static text (as on the above menu item title) dynamically, you can 
   translate the content of the page/post and it’s title which are dynamic but not
   the actual menue title.
    this occurs because worpress template tags doesn’t have
   a class/tag to get spcefic category name or page name!
 * all this frustrating time consuming problems drive me to a conclusion; stop using
   wordpress (learning from this handicap functionalities) and thinking of creating
   my own system.

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 *  [davethepak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davethepak/)
 * (@davethepak)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-i-stoped-using-wordpress/#post-1024969)
 * That is an ambitious direction to take.
 * I do not know about you, but if I found the tasks you describe to be challenging,
   I would say that “creating my own system” would be staggering in comparison and
   quite intimidating.
 * But I am not a php pro, and would only rate my css skill level at “medium”.
 * Best wishes to you, and once complete, please share!
 * ~dpak
 *  Thread Starter [Abdessamad Idrissi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numediaweb/)
 * (@numediaweb)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-i-stoped-using-wordpress/#post-1025065)
 * by “creating my own system” I mean, a simple dynamic site that is not limited
   to built in functions/classes (template tags): an easy simple to manage site 
   structure that can be used easily with any other design, with uncentralized/limited
   methods, giving more power to the developer/designer to express easily their 
   visions.
 * WordPress is though a good bloging simple great system, but, it just dont make
   me happy with my visions (look to the case study abouve); peaople don’t like 
   to be presoneers of code, wp says “code is poetry”, that will be true when wp
   let people write/design the poems the way they like.

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 * Last reply from: [Abdessamad Idrissi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numediaweb/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-i-stoped-using-wordpress/#post-1025065)
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