Chad McCullough<p>For the past few months, my sites have been running much, much slower than the previous few years. In a post earlier today, I blamed my web host but maybe I'm wrong? It might be the fact that they're built on WordPress? I have a site that I've been building with straight HTML and CSS and it's running just fine. </p><p>I think instead of blaming my web host, who has been awesome for years, it's time to move completely away from WordPress. If, for some reason, I need a CMS, maybe I should finally get serious about moving to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@drupal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>drupal</span></a></span> or <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://joomla.social/@joomla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joomla</span></a></span>, and everything else, build with HTML and CSS?</p><p><a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wordpress</span></a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/drupal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drupal</span></a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/joomla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joomla</span></a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a></p>