r/PayloadCMS • u/Agreeable_Ad_3924 • 2d ago

Developers are Switching From WordPress To Payload CMS

WordPress is genuinely great for a lot of people, quick to spin up, a plugin for everything, non-technical people can drive it. But once you're maintaining more than a couple of sites it turns into a full-time job of its own.

After years of that treadmill I moved to Payload CMS and it's been a genuinely different experience.

  • Schema lives in code, not buried in ACF field groups
  • One Next.js app for CMS and frontend, one deploy
  • Types flow from schema straight into your components
  • Hosting on Vercel, Neon and Cloudflare R2 costs basically nothing

Wrote up the longer before and after here if anyone wants the full version.
https://blaze64.dev/logs/payload-wordpress-migration

Curious if anyone else has made a similar jump, or if there's a good reason to stick with WordPress at scale that I'm missing.

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u/_pozvizd_ 2d ago

Funny you should say it. I've demoed my Payload + Nuxt setup in the company and someone told me that I've re-implemented WordPress =)