Is WordPress Right for Your Site?

The honest answer is that it depends on who edits the site on a Tuesday afternoon, not on any benchmark you will find in a comparison table.

I have built on it, migrated off it, and migrated back onto it for the same client eighteen months apart. Both moves were correct at the time.

When It Is The Right Call

• A non-technical team publishes weekly. The editing experience is familiar to more people than any other CMS on earth, and that is worth real money.
• The site is mostly content. Posts, pages, a few taxonomies. This is exactly what it was built for.
• The budget is finite. A competent theme and three plugins will beat a bespoke build that runs out of money at 70%.

When It Is Not

• The product is the interface. If the core of the thing is an application, a page builder will fight you at every turn.
• Nobody owns maintenance. An unmaintained WordPress install is a liability with a login screen.
• Design fidelity is the point. Getting a page builder to render a real design system is a fight you win and then re-fight after every update.

Choosing a CMS is an organisational decision wearing a technical costume.

How I Actually Decide

I ask who will change the homepage headline in six months, and whether that person will need to open a ticket to do it. The answer picks the stack more reliably than any feature matrix.

If the answer is “the founder, at 11pm, from their phone” — you already know.