OK this sounds stupid but it's true - I'm addicted to Wordpress and I'm afraid to actually run a site using only HTML/XHTML and CSS! I just don't like the sort of hands on part of working with an XHTML theme/template and not being able to update it with the ease of Wordpress - I'm not on about blogs now, just sites generally. My main site uses a WYSIWYG editor, although I have to admit the software is rubbish, but I'd much prefer it to XHTML on its own.

Anyone else suffering from Wordpress-addiction, bare HTML discrimination, coding-confidence deficit disorder?

lol i have seen this before. Just practice coding with html more and you'll find its just as easy to update.

I've got a fairly good knowledge of HTML (well I think I have) but it's just that although I don't mind coding things to get it up and running, once it is, I just like using Wordpress to write things - I don't know why, I just do. Maybe I'll be stuck with Wordpress-addiction, bare HTML discrimination, coding-confidence deficit disorder for life

Trust me soon enough you will enjoy HTML. Its sort of boring but the hands on aspect is what makes it enjoyable!

WordPress (or any CMS) certainly makes it easier to add new content. I consider myself very fluent in xhtml and css and while it's easy for me to add a new page to a site it's still going to be quicker to add content through WordPress than coding it on my own.

But you do have to keep in mind that if you use WordPress you're limited to doing certain things. There are some things you might want to do with a site built on WordPress that WordPress either doesn't allow or doesn't yet have the functionality to do.

I think WordPress is great and I think if can be used alone to create a lot of sites, but it can't do everything.

I use WordPress for my blog. But I've never been fully comfortable with it, and I don't like it that much. I certainly am not what you'd call addicted to it.

Why?

1) It's limited in what it can do. There are people out there who create whole sites off of it, which is just bizarre to me (unless the whole site is a blog, which I would understand), but you can only take it so far.

2) It's PHP-based. I know little about PHP.

3) The stock install is flawed...deeply, deeply flawed. Most people don't realize it because it's so easy to work with, but try breaking it down and working on it. It's like the inside of a stereo.

4) It substitutes and alters code in ways that I never tell it to.

5) If I have a post that includes embedded video, and I have to edit the post, I also have to reedit the video code so that it doesn't strip out the embed tag. I friggin' hate that.

6) It can't handle an ASP-based subdirectory with a default index page...or at least I haven't figured out how yet.

7) I despise WYSIWYG editors...although at least WordPress has a code editor (sort of).

Don't get me wrong...I think it's "okay". But would I use it for many things personally? No.

Adam I think you not being a PHP coder has a lot to do with your opinion. Personally I never use the WYSIWYG editor for anything. I write posts the way I want in a Firefox extension and then upload them through the extension. I agree WP can add some code here and there, but that's usually only to create new paragraphs. Once I got used to it I actually found it to make things quicker to type.

You can build an entire site on it. Usually the focus of that site is the blog, but by creating pages instead of posts you can create the pages you would have outside your blog. I'm even working on something where I can create pages completely outside the blog, but still make use of things within the blog. The home page will by my home page and the blog will sit in a subfolder, but I'll still only need to update the blog theme to update the look of the entire site.

Would I use WP exclusively for all types of sites? Absolutely not, but I think it'd a really good solution for a lot of sites. It still needs work of course. It's not search friendly by default for example.