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I would have rated this 4-stars a year or two ago. But I've moved all my websites off Wordpress except for one. Every time I've moved a website off Wordpress I've seen a traffic increase and a dramatic increase in what I'm able to do with my website. From the plugins to core updates, it's just too hard to maintain. And it's from an era where everyone had a "blog" and blogs actually worked for driving traffic.
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