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WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform
Leaving the current drama around WordPress.org aside for now, I believe that there is a use case for WordPress that is heavily underutilized: Using WordPress as a platform for self-hosting. When people think WordPress, they think publishing platform. And, of course, that's its nature. It was built for expressing yourself publicly on the internet. But as we have seen over the years, it is also a pretty good framework on which—through its plugin system—almost anything can be built on top […]https://alex.kirk.at/2025/01/24/wordpress-as-a-self-hosting-platform/
this sounds quite interesting!
but hasn’t #WordPress been plagued by all kinds of privacy vulnerabilities in the past?
the concept of self-hosting my private data should have the least access points possible, no?
@wigbert@mastodon.world I agree that you want to ensure this for your private data. Thus it does require a privacy plugin that doesn’t leak information indeed, for example that also restricts the REST endpoints. I believe that if there was a bit of a movement, a “best privacy plugin” would emerge like Yoast for SEO plugins.
Also, as an option, I mentioned Synology and QNAP as examples of how you can also host this home-network-internally on your NAS easily.
@wigbert@mastodon.worldthank you - but while I host my own website since 20+ years with #WordPress, this sounds a little too technical for me - (so I am a good example for a user, who need simple & easy explanations / directions …)
nevertheless, I’ll observe this closely - together with one of my sons, who studies computer science 
for our plans of a family NAS