7 Reasons to Move Your WordPress Site to Bolt
WordPress seems to be the all rounder for most things these days. People build almost everything with it. From a simple blog to a whole e-commerce site.
Unfortunately that isn’t the best decision because WordPress has some serious issues when it comes to stability, security and other stuff. There is also a big lack of quality in third party plugins and themes.
And here comes Bolt into play.
Bolt is an open source Content Management Tool, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible. It is quick to set up, easy to configure, uses elegant templates, and above all: It’s a joy to use.
It makes many things a lot better and the following are the most important ones.
Lightweight
Bolt isn’t blown with lots of features people could need. It has a “Do it as extension” principle which leads to a cleaner CMS core and more specialized extensions.
Fast
Bolt is really performant, thanks to its lightweightness and optimized database queries. It also comes with an built-in cache system which can be used to cache generated thumbnails and even whole requests.
Modern
Bolt uses well tested composer packages like Silex and Symfony components to ensure quality and stability. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
Clean
Bolt is written in object-orientated PHP, which leads to clean and maintainable code.
Secure
As already said, Bolt depends on highly adopted PHP packages to ensure the most possible security and fast bugfixes.
Flexible
Bolt has this concept of contenttypes, which will let you define everything on your own. Each contenttype you create gets its own database table with all the columns you define. This leads also in a much cleaner and less blown database.
Better Templating
Bolts uses Twig by default. It’s easy to use for beginners and provides good documentation. It also leads to cleaner templates because you can’t do dirty hacks as with vanilla PHP.
And this is not the end, there are lots of other advantages over WordPress but these are definitely the most important ones.
Do yourself a favor and try Bolt. It has a much smaller headache level than WordPress and some other CMS out there.
If you miss a feature, look for an extension in the Bolt Store or ask in the forum. There is always someone who will help out.
