Eight platforms, every path, judged by your pages
Alternatives, chosen from evidence.
Every alternatives list online is written by someone selling one of the options. These guides sit beside a check that reads your own homepage first, so the recommendation starts from what your site ships, and staying put is always one of the answers.
Pick the platform you run.
Each guide covers why teams leave, the support and export facts with their dates and sources, ten to twelve alternatives in one list, and the conditions under which you should stay.
- 01Sitecore alternativesSupport dates, licensing and the paths off XP.
- 02Drupal alternativesUpgrade, decouple or move, judged by your pages.
- 03AEM alternativesWhat to run when you use a fraction of the suite.
- 04WordPress alternativesStay, go headless or move: judged by your pages.
- 05Wix alternativesWhat exports, what does not, and where to go.
- 06Squarespace alternativesWhat exports, what you lose, where to go next.
- 07Webflow alternativesWhere the limits bite and what replaces it.
- 08Shopify alternativesBy store size, with the keep-the-checkout option.
- 09Joomla alternativesUpgrade, move to a builder, or a modern stack.
- 10TYPO3 alternativesEnterprise CMS or modern stack, without the agency tie.
Where sites land, and why.
Six destinations cover almost every move. The platform check names the one that fits your page and the ones that also fit, with the reason for each.
Content and marketing sites. Pages are built ahead of time, ship little JavaScript, and the content lives in Sanity or in the repository. The default for most sites that leave a builder or a plugin-heavy CMS.
Sites with an application behind them, personalization, many editors or many locales. Sanity or Contentful hold the content; the front end is code your team reviews.
Headless WordPress or decoupled Drupal: editors keep their tools, and the theme and plugins leave the request path. The middle path when the content model is the asset.
Webflow or Framer when no developer is on hand and the site stays under their CMS and plan limits. The honest answer for many Wix and Squarespace sites.
Shopify stays for payments and orders; a headless storefront or a separate marketing site replaces the heavy theme. Most Shopify stores do not need a platform move.
A light page on good hosting is a reason to stay. Every guide here includes that case and its conditions; the platform check says it to your face when it applies.
Questions, answered.
01Who writes these alternatives pages?
Gautam Khorana, who built the assessment and consults on moving legacy and WordPress estates to modern stacks. No vendor sponsors a position here, every list includes a stay-put entry, and the platform check reads your own site before anything is recommended to you.
02Which modern stack do you recommend?
It depends on what your pages show. Astro for content and marketing sites, Next.js with a headless CMS when there is an application, many editors or many locales, a builder when nobody on your team writes code, and the checkout you already have when you run a store.
03Do you move sites to WordPress?
No. New builds and migrations here land on Astro or Next.js with a headless CMS. Headless WordPress is sometimes the right middle step for a team that wants to keep its editor, and the WordPress guide covers when that pays off and when it does not.
04What does the 30-minute consultation cover?
Your goals, the platform you run, the constraints that matter and the next useful step. Bring the platform check card or a report link. It is a conversation, not a quote; scope and pricing follow once the shape of the work is clear.
Talk it through