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I spent some years building websites on WordPress.
And I lost more time fighting broken plugins than designing real experiences.
The uncomfortable truth:
→ 73% of WordPress sites are outdated and vulnerable 🔓
→ Clients pay $3,000+ for a website that breaks every 3 months 💸
→ Designers waste 40% of their time on technical maintenance ⏰
Meanwhile, Framer and Webflow are doing something radical:
Letting designers actually design.
No infinite dependencies.
No praying that a plugin won't break the entire site.
I migrated my last client from WordPress to Framer 2 months ago.
Results:
→ Loading speed: from 4.2s to 0.8s ⚡
→ Development time: reduced by 60% 🚀
→ Technical incidents: zero in 60 days ✅
→ Client can edit without breaking anything 🎯
What used to take me 3 weeks, I now do in 4 days.
@Maty Sandoval This hits hard because it’s real because builders should enable creativity, not constant firefighting. When tools remove friction, speed, quality, and strategy finally become the focus instead of survival.
Exactly! The biggest problem that I had with clients that had their websites built in Wordpress was maintaining them, plugins got updated and suddenly the website crashed, a complete headache.
I prefer rn Framer and it has been a game changer for me and my clients
Totally agree. WordPress maintenance can be a real headache; one plugin update and everything breaks. Framer removes that stress completely.
That shift is real. Less time fixing, more time designing.
Curious how you’re handling more complex CMS or custom logic after the migration?
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