Author Migrates Site From WordPress To Payload

Longtime WordPress user Chris Lema is migrating chrislema.com—more than twenty years on WordPress—to Payload CMS with an Astro frontend, moving over roughly 1,500 posts and converting content formats. He reports substantial engineering friction (draft-state seeding, image optimization, URL management) as the cost of enabling agent-native workflows for content creation and distribution, concluding WordPress remains preferable for most creators.