35 There Are Two Types of People: WordPress Edition

There are two types of WordPress users: those who use a staging site, and those who edit live and hold their breath.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who back up before updating, and those about to learn why you do.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who love Gutenberg, and those who installed the Classic Editor in the first five minutes.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who install one plugin for a feature, and those with 53 plugins and a white screen.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who use a child theme, and those whose customizations vanished with the last update.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who clear the cache, and those filing a bug for a change that already shipped.

There are two types of WordPress developers: those who use WP-CLI, and those clicking through 4,000 posts one at a time.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who deactivate a plugin to debug, and those who deactivated the one keeping the site up.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who hit update on one plugin, and those who hit "update all" and find out.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who say "it's just a small WordPress site," and those now running an enterprise platform by accident.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who read the plugin reviews, and those who installed "Ultimate Mega Super Plugin (Free)."

There are two types of WordPress users: those who use ACF, and those rebuilding ACF badly by hand.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who set up automatic backups, and those who say "the host probably has one."

There are two types of WordPress users: those who limit login attempts, and those whose admin username is admin.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who keep WooCommerce updated, and those whose checkout broke quietly on Friday.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who open a page-builder site and shrug, and those who open it in the editor and weep.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who manage multisite calmly, and those who updated one plugin and broke nine sites.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who changed the permalinks once, and those who changed them and 404'd the whole site.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who run one caching plugin, and those with three caching plugins fighting each other.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who test a theme switch on staging, and those who switched themes on Black Friday.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who know what wp-config.php does, and those who edited it and met the blank page.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who disabled file editing in the admin, and those who pasted code from a blog into Appearance, Editor.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who use a real SMTP plugin, and those whose contact form has emailed nobody for a year.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who optimize the images, and those whose homepage is 14 megabytes of hero photo.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who installed a security plugin, and those who became a crypto-mining host overnight.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who keep PHP updated, and those running PHP 5.6 because "it still works."

There are two types of WordPress users: those who read "are you sure you want to delete this," and those who deleted the page.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who use revisions, and those who overwrote the good draft and have no memory of it.

There are two types of WordPress developers: those who enqueue scripts properly, and those who pasted a script tag into the header and prayed.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who vet the "lightweight" plugin, and those whose lightweight plugin added 30 queries per page.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who set up a CDN, and those whose site is fast only for them, in the same city, on fiber.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who flip on maintenance mode, and those who edited the live homepage at noon.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who document the custom fields, and those reverse-engineering ACF from a site they built two years ago.

There are two types of WordPress users: those who read the update notes, and those who say "surely this minor update is safe."

There are two types of WordPress users: those who tested the form, and those whose client tested the form for them, loudly.