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.
You built your website, launched it, and moved on. Now someone’s mentioned you should be “maintaining” it, and you’re not sure if that’s a real thing or just an upsell. It’s a real thing, and this post explains exactly what it involves and whether it makes sense for you.
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.