I'm done with WordPress - what we're switching to.

I think we're done with WordPress. I've been building WordPress websites for 17 years and about half of our clients are still on WordPress, but I don't think we'll ever build another WordPress website again. So I want to talk about why we're pretty much done with WordPress, what we're switching to instead and how you should think about the platform your website's built on. The main issue with WordPress is that it's not AI native. Yes, I know you can connect AI to WordPress. I know there are MCP servers for WordPress. But you can't tell me it's AI native. Claude can't just build you a WordPress website the way it can build you an HTML website. When you connect AI to WordPress, it fights you every step of the way. So over the last six months, we've been looking into a lot of AI native CMS solutions. I was hopeful for EmDash. We tried things like Payload. Our brilliant web dev lead Hana built her own CMS. It's been clear that WordPress's days are numbered, but we didn't know what we would switch to. The real unlock for us was Fable. Fable is so good at software engineering, we've been able to build a ton of software. And one of those is our dream CMS. Hana was able to spin up our ideal CMS solution in a weekend with Fable. It has every feature we cared about from WordPress, including a drag-and-drop page builder. But the pages are built in HTML with Next.js. It integrates directly with the knowledge base for each of our clients on GitHub, and Hana can easily migrate any existing website into the system. Everything lives on Vercel, so our clients can still own the website, we just get access to it. And because the website itself is just HTML and JavaScript files, it would be easy to migrate to another CMS in the future. But I honestly don't think we'll need to. AI has gotten so good at developing software that it just makes sense to maintain our own now. We now have a small team of AI native developers maintaining it. And over the next six months, I imagine we'll recommend many of our clients switch over. With one caveat. I think it'll be a little bit longer before we recommend e-commerce businesses make the jump. But I can't imagine we'll ever build a new WordPress website again.