When most people decide to build a WordPress site, picking a theme feels like the obvious first step. Browse a marketplace, find something that looks close enough, and start customising. It’s how WordPress has worked for years, and for a long time, it was a reasonable approach.
Most web agencies will tell you they use “the best tool for the job.” That’s true for us too, but it’s also a bit of a non-answer. Here’s the honest version: what we actually build on, why we chose it, and the handful of situations where we’d point you somewhere else.
You’re planning a new website, and someone has told you it could be built in two different ways: a traditional CMS like WordPress or a static site generator like Astro. Now you’re trying to figure out what that actually means for you.
Your website could be hosted on the same server as thousands of other businesses, managed by your agency through a cPanel account they acquired for a few dollars a month. You’d have no way of knowing. And in many cases, it wouldn’t even be their fault.