Why Shopify and WordPress Suck
summary
Compares a retired ASP.NET custom CMS to moving sites onto Shopify is SaaS and WordPress you own the code, claims the company abandoned custom maintenance and migrated to commodity platforms, tests fitment where Shopify = small, WordPress = mid, custom = large, reports plugin conflicts, certification limits on Shopify apps, and hidden costs from hosting and add‑ons, and concludes chosen platforms reduce maintenance but trade away code ownership and predictable scaling.
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