After five years of building client sites, and my agency, on WordPress, I am officially moving away from it. Not all the way: WordPress stays where it makes sense, and EmDash and static Astro sites take on the rest.
This is the why behind that shift, so I am not all-in on one platform.
What is covered
- Why WordPress core feels stagnant, and the features that still depend on plugins
- Leadership and community drama, including the WP Engine situation that cut me off from the plugin repository
- How AI and new site builders are changing the website landscape
- Why security and plugin vulnerabilities got harder to manage at scale
- Why EmDash, and why it matters that Cloudflare is building it
- Diversifying the stack across WordPress, EmDash and static Astro sites