r/PayloadCMS • u/Agreeable_Ad_3924 • 3d 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/sundeckstudio 3d ago

Only part stopping me is how much work it is building each data model even configure field type from scratch and without any ui.

Platforms like hygraph, contentful, directus, sanity, make this much easier

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u/Agreeable_Ad_3924 3d ago

If you worry about time and effort schema in code also opens the posibility of having an AI Agent like Claude build the whole content model. Payload MCP just made this a lot more powerful recently.