Why WordPress still earns a place on the stack

It's easy to reach for a modern framework by default. Sometimes that's the right call. But a lot of the client and product work I do doesn't need a custom stack — it needs something that ships fast, is easy for a non-technical team to maintain, and doesn't fall over.

WordPress, done properly — clean theme work, sensible plugin choices, real attention to performance and SEO — still does that job better than most alternatives for a large slice of real-world projects.

The skill isn't picking the trendiest tool. It's picking the tool that matches the constraints: budget, timeline, who maintains it after you leave.