We just moved another one of our product sites back to WordPress after ~10 years of it being statically generated with Jekyll.
That’s 4 sites in 4 months back on WordPress. Not saying we’re single-handedly reversing the trend, but we’re doing what we can. 😉
It’s a 1:1 conversion for now, but we’ll start milking the fact that it’s dynamic again over the next few weeks.
Why the move back?
- Easier content management. The team can update knowledge base content again without going through a developer or Git workflow. Smaller edits are frictionless. Spotted a typo or outdated sentence while browsing the live site? Click edit, fix it, done.
- Dogfooding. We build WordPress products, so our own product sites should probably run on WordPress too. The results of
@innerwebs’s poll last week surprised me in this regard.
- If a site can be static, its
#WordPress version can be cached just as aggressively at the edge, but with more granular purging when individual pages change.
Obligatory Lighthouse score: 100/100/100/100.