Why My Personal Site Runs on Astro (While My Clients Still Use WordPress)
After a decade in WordPress, I shifted my personal portfolio to Astro. Here is why it's about choosing the right tool for the job.
The Right Tool for the Job
I’ve spent the last ten years deeply embedded in the WordPress ecosystem. It has, for as long as I can remember been the technology of choice for building client website projects. There was a point (a few years ago) where it was expected/assumed that we would use WordPres for incoming projects. I would say around 2021 was my height of interest, as during this time, we had quite a few website maintains and new projects and were finding cool ways to leverage the WordPress ecosystem (in a reliable way) to build them. It was an exciting time, WordPress had a buzz around it and many creators had moved away from the likes Envato which consistently offered future issues and were empowered by the strength of the page builders such as Elementor.
Then came AI.
I early 2023 I designed the blueprint for an events site which mimicked the functionality of a very popular San Franciso Beer company which ran a week event every year. The functionality was quite complex, but with the early advances of AI (Chat GPT at that point) I was able to refine a lot of the time spent in both planning and code evaluation to create a rock solid solution.
But when it came time to rebuild my own personal portfolio and intelligence hub, my priorities shifted. I didn’t need a heavy, dynamic database backend just to host markdown files and consulting hooks.
It came down to choosing the absolute leanest tool for this specific job.
to be continued when I have time…
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