Astro vs WordPress — Why Studios Are Switching in 2026
WordPress powers 43% of the web. Astro powers the fastest portfolios on it. Here is why studios are switching.
Astro vs WordPress
WordPress powers 43% of the web. Astro powers the fastest portfolios on it.
What you lose with WordPress
- Monthly hosting bills that scale with traffic
- Plugin bloat that slows every page
- Security updates that break the site
- A database that needs backups
- Admin panel that needs maintenance
What you gain with Astro
- Static HTML — no server to run
- Zero JS by default — faster than any WP site
- Deploy free on Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare
- Content in markdown — git-backed, portable
- No security surface to patch
What you keep
Everything that matters for a portfolio: pages, posts, images, SEO, forms. Astro does all of it, just without the overhead.
The migration is smaller than you think
PaperHouse ships with content collections for works, blog, and pages. Moving from WordPress means copying text into markdown files — that’s it.