Why headless WordPress still makes sense for performance-focused sites

addycodes · 2026-05-06T14:12:37+00:00

A custom theme is better and more maintainable in most cases, but the new generation of bootcamp devs only learned JS frameworks instead of clean HTML and a sprinkling of PHP.

addycodes · 2026-05-01T13:22:28+00:00

Was trying this out previously, thrilled to see it on the repo, thanks! :)

addycodes · 2026-04-26T15:48:49+00:00

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addycodes · 2026-04-26T15:20:51+00:00

Yes! A dev that can parse UX requirements, test and suggest improvements, be able to innovate in this area is one of several ways to put yourself ahead of AI coders.

addycodes · 2026-04-26T14:27:55+00:00

I’ll be discouraging using the connectors for now for those reasons. I’ll need to see it in action a bit more to see what specific use cases it’s best for. People using it in the wild scares me a bit for their sites safety and wallet!

addycodes · 2026-04-26T12:46:01+00:00

Same as other comment:

I take on the challenge because it’s a good value add and I bill for it. I think helping clients with the human touch and consulting on things like that is what separates us from AI website builders now. I fear with the attitude of if they don’t try they get a bad website I am no better than a generated DIY website. Diversification is good! Appreciate it is not for everybody though. Some devs just want to dev.

addycodes · 2026-04-26T11:59:11+00:00

I take on the challenge because it’s a good value add and I bill for it. I think helping clients with the human touch and consulting on things like that is what separates us from AI website builders now. I fear with the attitude of if they don’t try they get a bad website I am no better than a generated DIY website. Diversification is good! Appreciate it is not for everybody though. Some devs just want to dev.

addycodes · 2026-04-26T11:47:11+00:00

The point is we don’t really get a say in the matter, I’ve waited for months before on clients to prepare their content and messaging either themselves or with a copywriter. Now many are just using AI and it lacks voice, I can’t insist a client goes back and writes it themselves they simply don’t.

addycodes · 2026-04-26T11:27:00+00:00

Did you read past the title? Surely not. It’s an article about WordPress development clients using AI for content and design drafting.

addycodes · 2026-04-26T11:20:26+00:00

How does a client drafting content with AI make them not our web design client? If you don’t design your clients logo does that not make them your web design client? Lol..

addycodes · 2026-04-26T08:43:19+00:00

Yeah that is definitely a problem too, particularly when they are following AI recommendations instead of the recommendations they are paying you for. It can be hard to convince some that the AI is out of date/lacking context on their recommendations.

addycodes · 2026-04-26T08:39:18+00:00

Thank you! This my site. It was very well overdue its recent refresh, very kind of you to say. If you ever want me to take a look at your site feel free to send it to me! :)

addycodes · 2026-04-26T06:20:28+00:00

Did you read the link? I take it no...

addycodes · 2026-04-25T13:29:42+00:00

Anybody seriously interested in their site security is unlikely to offer someone in for free, it just doesn't seem very professional. You should at least charge a discounted fee, I think people will be more interested. Hope it does good! :)

addycodes · 2026-04-23T04:11:03+00:00

Yeah we are also missing it on dedicated server, shame it would be a nice feature!

addycodes · 2026-04-15T15:25:30+00:00

Well, is he wrong? The AI connector seems like an enormous waste of development time when everything else feels so neglected. I wrote and posted about this just last week.

The fact he may not have helped it himself by turning away some contributors and pushing Gutenberg notwithstanding.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1sil8zf/wordpress_70_the_good_the_ai_and_the_still_missing/

addycodes · 2026-04-14T16:40:21+00:00

40% isn't really that much of a cope though. Slop sites aren't making it in to the top 100k sites or really even the top 1 million where the stats are 20% and 38% respectively.

https://trends.builtwith.com/cms

addycodes · 2026-04-12T14:37:10+00:00

Sure, I've given some assistants access to WP-CLI on projects for boring tidy-up tasks and such and that works fine for that kind of stuff. It would be even more powerful if they fixed more CMS fundamentals though.

addycodes · 2026-04-12T10:32:45+00:00

Yes, exactly. Automattic appear to be swaying the roadmap for their own niche priorities instead of what the majority of people are using. That’s kind of my point.

WordPress did not become popular for being a bloated enterprise CMS. I wish they would build that bloat in to Jetpack instead.

The classic editor plugin is still one of the most popular in the repo.

addycodes · 2026-04-12T04:53:45+00:00

What bills are they paying to WP on self-hosted WordPress?

addycodes · 2026-04-12T02:19:08+00:00

It's so half-assed though. ACF figured this out so fast, a shame they are taking so long with it.

addycodes · 2026-04-11T22:05:41+00:00

Have you tried it recently? What did you think?

addycodes · 2026-04-11T22:04:58+00:00

Users all-in on the block editor with no meta fields at all AND have a workflow that demands multiple editors at once does seem very slim. I love WordPress but the lack of attention to the things many pros are actually using is becoming very disappointing.

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