How to rebuild WordPress sites on Astro with Claude
alexmarcus11249 reports rebuilding two consultancy websites with Claude over two weeks. In follow-up comments, they identify Astro, Cloudflare Pages and GitHub as the replacement stack. Content still goes through Git; the custom CMS and wider operations platform remain unfinished.
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Help rebuild [existing website] as an Astro site for [business needs]. Inventory the current content, URLs and integrations before suggesting changes. Implement approved sections incrementally and explain what still requires testing or migration work. Keep [external course or business systems] unchanged unless approved. Prepare a staging preview for my review and do not claim improved SEO, speed or security without measurements.
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- Reported result
- alexmarcus11249 reports rebuilding two business websites with Claude in roughly two weeks using Astro, Cloudflare Pages and GitHub. The author prefers the new workflow, but provides no controlled speed, SEO or conversion results. The custom CMS and broader business infrastructure remain in development.
- Human involvement
- The owner defined and refined the design while building, selected what business systems to replace and reported the results. The source does not explain formal testing, deployment approval or security review, so those safeguards cannot be assumed.
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How the agent did it
- The consultancy owner worked with Claude to rebuild two existing WordPress websites over roughly two weeks.
- They refined requirements during building rather than supplying a finished design specification in advance.
- They moved the sites to Astro on Cloudflare Pages and managed code and site content through GitHub.
The owner of a four-person HR technology consultancy reports replacing two WordPress websites with sites rebuilt through Claude. Posting as alexmarcus11249, they describe a roughly two-week project and link both resulting company sites. Their motivation was the difficulty of translating evolving ideas into work for external developers, alongside plugin maintenance and login problems.
In follow-up comments, the author identifies the replacement stack as Astro on Cloudflare Pages, with GitHub managing code and content. They say content changes currently go through Git. Courses remain on Circle.so rather than becoming part of a completed custom platform.
Claude's role was to implement the owner's requests as the design developed. The author says their understanding of what they wanted became clearer during building. That supports a supervised, conversational development workflow, not a claim that an agent independently planned and launched both sites without intervention.
The observed outcome is the owner's report of two rebuilt websites and a workflow they prefer. They also describe better appearance and speed, but provide no controlled performance comparison, conversion figures or reliable migration-wide SEO measurement. A lightweight CMS, CRM, time tracking, capacity planning and client portals are work in progress, not completed results.
This account suits small-business owners considering an agent-assisted static-site rebuild. It does not establish that replacing WordPress removes maintenance work or that a custom platform is safer. The source gives little detail about testing, deployment approvals or long-term support responsibilities.
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Source: Reddit · u/alexmarcus11249
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What replaced WordPress in the reported rebuild?
The author identifies Astro, Cloudflare Pages and GitHub. Content changes currently go through Git, while courses remain on Circle.so. A lightweight custom CMS is still being built.
Did the post establish better SEO or a finished operations platform?
No. The author gives a qualitative impression of SEO and reports ongoing work on the CMS and business tools. The account supplies no controlled SEO result or evidence that the wider platform is finished.
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Remaining steps
- They kept courses on Circle.so and continued making content changes through Git.
- They began a custom CMS and wider operations platform, explicitly leaving those projects as ongoing work.
About this account
Claude implemented the owner's website requests through an iterative development workflow. The source supports substantive coding assistance but does not describe independent deployment authority, complete testing or unsupervised migration decisions.
Firsthand account by u/alexmarcus11249: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x84gbu/i_liberated_my_companys_websites_from_wordpress/. Full public RSS post and returned comments captured on 18 October 2026. Body eligibility passed at 0.86. Outcomes are author-reported, not independently reproduced. Suggested prompt by Agents In Use, not the author's original prompt.
Credit: u/alexmarcus11249 on Reddit
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Claude · Astro · Cloudflare Pages · GitHub · Circle.so
website migration · Astro · small business · static sites
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