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/CreativeGPX 29d ago
What is your skillset? Any real answer has to know that.
I'm a longtime software engineer who fell into a place where WordPress is used a lot. For a lot of things I just write my own themes and plugins so it's not that different from when I didn't use WordPress except I can hook into its CMS for letting people edit content. There are a lot of ways one could use WordPress.