I finally ditched WordPress for PressXo

I have been using WordPress for like 6 years,I finally ditched WordPress for PressXo

I have been using WordPress for like 6 years and honestly got tired of dealing with all the problems. Found PressXo a I finally ditched WordPress for PressXo

i have been using WordPress for like 6 years and honestly got tired of dealing with all the problems. Found PressXo few months ago and thought I'd share what happened.

WHY I SWITCHED?

WordPress was driving me crazy. Every update broke something, plugins didn't play nice together, and my sites were slow as hell. Client kept complaining about loading times and I was spending more time fixing stuff than actually building.

So PressXo is basically what WordPress should be in 2025. Same idea but they built it from scratch without all the old baggage.

The best part? My site loads in under a second now. Before it was taking 4-5 seconds on a good day. That's huge for my clients.

Also the admin panel makes sense. WordPress backend always felt messy to me, like they just kept adding features on top of old features. PressXo feels clean, everything is where you expect it to be. I was worried about migration but it went smooth. They have tools that pull everything from WordPress - posts, pages, users, even most plugin data. Took maybe 2 hours for a site with 500+ posts.

Had to redo some custom themes but honestly that was good. Made me clean up a lot of messy code.

Real talk - what's better

Site speed improved big time
No more plugin hell (their plugin system just works better)
Updates don't break things randomly
Hosting costs went down because site needs less resources
My clients actually notice the difference

It has downsides too, I ain't gonna lie, plugin selection is smaller. If you need super specific WordPress plugins, might be stuck. But for most regular websites it's fine.

Has anyone finally ditched WordPress for PressXo

Abbey Tough

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