GitFoundry vs WordPress

WordPress is not free

The software is free. Everything else is not.

WordPress itself costs nothing to download. But to run it, you need paid hosting — typically between £5 and £30 per month depending on your provider and plan. That is £60 to £360 per year before you have touched the design. Premium themes commonly cost £40–£100. Premium plugins cost £20–£100 each, and a typical WordPress site relies on several. Then there is the time cost of keeping everything updated.

GitFoundry builds static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: files that need no server-side processing. Hosting is free on GitHub Pages. There are no plugins, no themes, no updates, and no vulnerability patches. You pay once for the design and build. That is all.

The most hacked platform on the web

WordPress powers approximately 40% of all websites on the internet. It also accounts for the majority of hacked websites. The CMS, its themes, and its plugins each represent attack surfaces that require constant monitoring and patching. If you miss an update, you risk your site being compromised, defaced, or used to distribute malware.

A GitFoundry site is a set of static files. There is no database, no login page, no admin panel, and no server-side execution. There is nothing for an attacker to exploit. The site cannot be hacked in any meaningful sense — there is no software running on the server to compromise.

Most small businesses do not need a CMS

WordPress was built to manage large volumes of frequently-updated content — news sites, blogs with daily posts, multi-author publications. For a sole trader whose website changes once or twice a year, the full weight of a CMS is unnecessary overhead.

A GitFoundry site is plain HTML. There is no admin panel to learn, no plugin conflicts to diagnose, and no update cycle to manage. If you want to change something, you edit the file. If you want someone else to change something, you hand them the file.

When WordPress is the right choice

WordPress is a reasonable choice if you publish new content daily, have multiple authors contributing, run a WooCommerce store, or need a non-technical team member to make frequent content updates without developer involvement. For those use cases, a CMS earns its complexity.

For a sole trader, a tradespeople business, a therapist, or a small professional practice with a site that presents what you do, where you are, and how to contact you, a static hand-coded site is faster, cheaper, safer, and simpler. Submit a brief and GitFoundry will respond within 48 hours.