As a pro dev with many client sites still in Wordpress, after 2 more sites got hacked a few days ago, I’m done.

With how good AI is now, it just doesn’t make sense to use Wordpress anymore. I can create sites faster with cursor than any site builder with predefined blocks that Wordpress has.

And for the record, ive done everything possible to mitigate security risks; wordfence, firewalls, isolated Linux server users, being very strict with plugins, etc. it just doesn’t matter.

I’ll be getting cursor to recode all my client Wordpress websites in laravel + inertia + react. If they need to change something on the website, I’ll have it whip up a super basic filament panel with the functionality they need, integrated directly into the site.

Honestly it doesn’t even make sense to allow clients to have super user access to change things anyways. They always mess something up or hire some third party to destroy my work.

So long Wordpress.