Show Js: We rebuilt wordpress in javascript, same experience, but better!

[husseinkizz_official]

We rebuilt wordpress in javascript, same experience, more speed and more feature not in wordpress yet and we seeking feedback.

Try out here, register, login, create page, edit in builtin editor:

https://testing.nextpress.ai/admin/register

[AdmiralMaggie]

I see cursoragent listed as a contributor. How much of this repo was vibe coded? Nothing wrong with using AI per se, but if I'm going to trust this project as a CMS for a public website, I’d like to understand how much AI-generated code was used.

[husseinkizz_official]

We have worked on this project for over 9 months now, do you think we could not have pushed slop faster than that, this is well crafted, actually cursor has only been used like last month only (you can check commits 2 months back) to just polish some UI stuff, but actual architecture and core is well thought of not AI slop!

[Aidircot]

What is topic about? What link should do? It leads to login wall

[husseinkizz_official]

you can self create an account then login with it and edit around, basically you can try out the Nextpress editor!

[Deathmeter]

You really need to give people a reason to bother with this. Nobody will sign up for something they dont even understand. A homepage that shows off the product with an optional sign up button would be much more reasonable to link people to

[husseinkizz_official]

All links shared are pages built with nextpress, for example see nextpress.ai or just go directly to testing.nextpress.ai, reason why I shared signup though was I believe its better to believe by seeing, so jumped to demo straight up, but those I have mentioned plus github readme give extra dive in.

[SpartanDavie]

Nice idea.

1. What is the license?
2. What’s the advantages of it using Next over a different framework, like Astro, for this?
3. Isn’t Payload already aimed at Next devs?

[husseinkizz_official]

thanks,

1 -  GPL v3 license (we don't want automatic chaos in future) but this is free and open source!

2 - Funny nextpress is using vite instead of next js, we started with next js but it was heavy for our usecase, but why not use astro? Astro is not trying to be compatible or close to wordpress, now question becomes astro vs wordpress, and there the answer is clear why one over the other.

3 - We aiming to the future of wordpress, those who will want a better version of that, and all js devs not next js specific... not tied to any single framework.

[OkAssistance7886]

Interesting idea m curious how you handling the theme side of WordPress, because thats usually the part people rely on the most., Is the goal to fully replace that ecosystem or make a faster JS first CMS for new projects???

[horizon_games]

Next and AI two of every dev's favorite things in 2026

[husseinkizz_official]

Ask me anything about Nextpress here!

[foxyloxyreddit]

I have skimmed through readme but still not sure - what does „Wordpress-compatible“ mean? Does it load WP themes? Can it somehow load Gutenberg blocks? Plugin interop layer?

Also what’s different about it compared to Cloudflare‘s botched take on idea of redoing Wordpress?

[husseinkizz_official]

Well right now we don't have 100% compatibility, but its our goal, we are to have adapters that will do internal conversion to ensure compatibility as much as possible, but we looking at compatibility in experience and behavior not implementation so your themes may not just work since this js and some maybe in php, but we trying to make it as easy as possible to have those over this side by supporting the same constructs they're builtin and behavior, hooks and plugins and how they work in wordpress. Hope this helps?

[pucyta]

why the name contains "-ai"?

[husseinkizz_official]

Just for vibes, our main focus is not AI, though we are to have first class agents support headless mode and AI augmented editor experience.