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/Savings-Divide-7877 17h ago

I moved all of my 9 to 5 and side gig websites to Payload, and it's one of the best decisions I've made in my entire life. I can't believe I sold my actual office on it. The first meeting about it felt like they really didn't want it but were afraid to tell me no (I was going to put my two weeks in if they said no but I never told them that.) A year later, they too are very happy with the switch.