Wordpress is the new Excel Online

Wordpress has become the internets new excel file. The place where you paint yourself into a corner, manually. Although AI is being added to excel and wordpress themes, it's dominated by manual effort to keep a bloated and old system alive. Wordpress is a dying artwork, a lot like excel. It was great at prototyping, but today wordpress is now the axe in a good companies knee.

Wordpress is now the new skill gap for every business under the sun. With the rise of AI hacking, simple scripts are now becoming weaponized in enterprise methods. Meaning anyone is able to now generate the most powerful and diverse hacking software, known to the earth, simply due to having access to LLMs. Now, wordpress is simply a target, in world of LLMs being able to create you a static website.

Why do static websites beat wordpress?

LLMs connected to code editors, a github repo, and attached to netlify will dunk every wordpress website in 24 to 48 hours. I speak from experience having moved small wordpress and big wordpress websites (1k+ pages) to static web pages with great ease. Each time, creating a more sophisticated means of migrating. One being the sitemap, next being simple web scrapes, and beyond that it's a wordpress export, redirect export, and google search console scraped by an ai agent and poof. A few prompts later you're done? Then you can ask it to be faster than your original website, and you're at $20/month spend? So to access an app that can rug your wordpress website, you're spending less per month than your hosting. I know hosting is expensive on wordpress when the site has a ton of activity, it's expensive to keep it safe, and now LLM access is more affordable than ever, enabling users to quickly go from wordpress to astro/react/vite/tailwind.

My suggestion, drop wordpress while you have time to be competitive.