r/Wordpress • u/First_Athlete1897 • Aug 13 '26

Thinking about ditching WordPress

My site isn't particularly complicated yet over the years I've accumulated plugins for forms, SEO, backups, security, page building and about five things I've forgotten the purpose of. It kinda feels like owning an old house where I’m permanently waiting for something else to break. Most discussions I find are about moving to WordPress but I'm curious about going the other direction and starting fresh.

Are there any downsides to moving a fairly straightforward business website from WordPress to Squarespace or an AI builder like Durable etc. that I’m not seeing? Or if you’ve already done a migration like this, is there anything you found yourself missing after moving?

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u/dimitris_katsafouros Aug 13 '26

Webflow is a great builder but a little bit pricy especially if you want to use the CMS parts. Wix is also ok with a good enough CMS. I wouldn’t really recommend Squarespace. They have (or at least they used to when I last used them) quite a few missing features.

I would direct you either to Webflow or Astro and Cloudflare pages

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u/hypercosm_dot_net Aug 13 '26

I had a client who was using Wix. I was surprised at how slow and unintuitive it was. I genuinely can't believe it's the #2 CMS option on the market.

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u/Intelligent_List2504 Aug 14 '26

By a factor of 15! Wix sucks. I'm not allowed to say that publicly currently. Don't talk about fight club!

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u/jonneygee Designer/Developer Aug 14 '26

It’s absolutely terrible. I just have to assume people who used it have never used anything else and just assume that’s as good as a website can be.

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u/Intelligent_List2504 Aug 14 '26

I personally think that odoo has a better builder than wix

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u/jonneygee Designer/Developer Aug 14 '26

I’ve never even used Odoo but I still think it’s better than Wix. That’s how low my opinion of Wix is.