Success stories
Sites that left WordPress
What moved, what was hard, and what changed afterwards — with the numbers. Our own migrations first, then stories from around the web.
From around the web
We didn't do these migrations — other people did, and wrote them up. They're here because they show the same thing we see on every project: leaving WordPress is faster and cheaper than it has ever been.
- lowtouch.aiNext.jsClaude Code
How We Replaced WordPress with Next.js Using Claude Code ↗
180+ pages rebuilt in under 3 weeks (~10 hours elapsed, ~3 of active prompting) against an original 8–10 week estimate. Mobile PageSpeed went from 61 to 94, time-to-first-byte from ~480ms to ~90ms, and 18 plugins went to zero.
- chandlernguyen.comNext.jsClaude Code
How I Rebuilt My Entire Blog Backend in 4 Days with Claude Code ↗
485 posts moved from WordPress on a paid cloud VM to Next.js in 4 days. 14k+ upload files shrank to ~2,000 optimized images, and deploys became a git push.
- pawlean.comMDXClaude Code
WordPress to MDX Migration with Claude Code ↗
367 posts pulled through the WordPress REST API and converted to local MDX files in a single afternoon — a migration the author had deferred for years.
- behaimits.comNext.jsClaude Code
From WordPress to Next.js in 5 Weeks with Claude Code ↗
An IT consultancy rebuilt its own WordPress site on Next.js in five weeks, using Claude Code as a development partner throughout — an agency-scale account of the same workflow.
- botric.aiNext.jsAutomation
WordPress to Next.js: How Botric Did It in Days ↗
14 pages and 16 posts moved to a static Next.js site in a few days instead of the usual couple of weeks. A 314-line migration script parsed the WordPress export, converted HTML to MDX, and localized images in about 30 seconds.
- ericdodds.comNext.jsCursor
Using Cursor to Migrate a 13-Year-Old WordPress Site to Next.js ↗
Thirteen years of posts moved off WordPress onto Next.js and Vercel with an AI pair — proof the workflow isn't specific to any one coding agent.
- kashifaziz.meAstro
How I Migrated from WordPress to Astro and Hit a Perfect 100 Lighthouse Score ↗
A long-running WordPress blog rebuilt on Astro, going from a plugin-heavy install to a static site scoring 100/100 on Lighthouse.
- pawelcislo.comAstro
After 8 Years on WordPress, I Migrated to Astro Starlight ↗
A step-by-step account of leaving WordPress after eight years for a Markdown-based Astro site — what moved cleanly and what took real work.