Goodbye WordPress: A Better Way Forward
- William Schuelein
- Sep 20
- 2 min read
When I first began building websites, WordPress felt like freedom. In the early 2000s, it was light, open, and endlessly adaptable. But over time, it began to demand more than it gave. By the time plugins numbered in the dozens and every update risked breaking something fragile, I realized that my time—and my clients’ money—was being spent on maintenance instead of results.
Switching to Wix Studio was not nostalgia’s choice but the practical one. What once required an ecosystem of add-ons now exists in one place: booking systems, e-commerce, analytics, forms, SEO, even multilingual support. These features are not bolted on; they are woven in. The platform takes care of hosting, backups, and security at a level small businesses could never match on their own. It scales automatically if traffic surges, keeps data protected by default under GDPR and CCPA, and ensures your site remains visible no matter what happens in one corner of the world.
With WordPress, each of those assurances carries an asterisk. Security is outsourced, often inconsistent. Performance depends on which plugins are installed and how recently they’ve been updated. Hosting must be arranged separately, with coverage only as strong as the package you choose. And when something breaks, responsibility is scattered across developers, vendors, and forums. It is less a platform than a patchwork, and maintaining it takes energy away from the work of growth.
The difference shows up in speed. With Wix Studio, optimization happens at scale. Every improvement to infrastructure rolls out instantly to every site. With WordPress, performance gains often come through plugins—ironically the same plugins that slow the site, require updates, and introduce risk. The result is a slower path to market, a heavier budget, and more ongoing upkeep.
For clients, the question is not whether a quality site can be built in WordPress—it can—but whether it should. Do you want your investment to flow into updates and maintenance, or into growth, campaigns, and content? Wix Studio allows me to hand over a site that is mobile-first, bilingual, secure, and reliable, with a short training so your team can update text and media safely. No lock-in, no developer dependency, no hidden costs. Just a digital space that performs as it should, every day.
WordPress was the right tool for its time. But this is a new time, and business today needs a platform that removes obstacles rather than adding them. For me, Wix Studio is that platform. It gives my clients not just websites, but the freedom to focus on what matters: their business, their message, their future.
