Bye Bye WordPress, Part 2: Why Astro Won My Personal Site

A year after ditching WordPress for JekyllI found myself looking at this topic again. This time for my personal site.

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Jekyll served me well for the static stuff, but since its launch, the Server Side Rendering (SSR) world has moved, and there are many more options available. My previous attempts with Jekyll had told me that getting the site design right was going to be a challenge.

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My UI creation skills are limited to telling my agent what to do. However, I don’t like to create my own templates. For that, I prefer well-known design systems such as Material Design or Bootstrap. And I am on a tiny budget here, so I wanted to avoid shelling out on templates.

I needed a framework that offered a better template ecosystem and retained all the good things Jekyll brought.

Why Astro

My last article had invited a lot of interest, but among the comments telling me to go learn WordPress better, people thanking…