WordPress without the WordPress.
TypeScript-native. Deployed to the edge.
WordPress won for a reason. Then it aged.
WordPress powers a huge slice of the web because three things were right: a hook system any plugin could extend, a REST API with shapes that stay stable across decades, and a theme model agencies could own.
What aged badly is everything underneath — PHP, MySQL, the plugin-update security treadmill. Every WordPress site is one stale plugin away from an RCE.
addAction, addFilterwp-json REST shapesYour site, moved in one command.
Most "WordPress alternatives" assume you're starting from zero. You aren't. You have 400 posts, 60 pages, 2 GB of media, WooCommerce products, custom fields, SEO redirects, and users who expect URLs not to break.
Where is your content coming from?
Four input formats. Pick the one your WordPress site can produce.
WordPress eXtended RSS
Standard wp-admin export. Posts, pages, comments, custom fields.
mysqldump
Full fidelity including users, Woo orders, and taxonomy meta.
Pohonopack archive
Another Pohono instance. Slugs, redirects and IDs preserved 1:1.
Start fresh
No import. Scaffold an empty site with the starter theme.
Four input formats. Pick the one your WordPress site can produce.
We are not pretending this is 1.0.
Public testing. Zero merchants running 30 days yet. That's the exit criterion for 1.0 — see the roadmap.
No PHP interpreter in wasm. No legacy assumptions.
Sub-100ms TTFB
Cached pages respond in under 100 ms from any region.
SQLite on the edge
Cloudflare D1 replicated to every Cloudflare region.
Zero cold starts
Workers isolate model, not containers.
No React on the frontend
Themes emit HTML strings. Readers don't download a bundle to see your homepage.
16 plugins included. Each one auditable in an afternoon.
& essentials
Every bundled plugin is a typed TypeScript module. No reflection, no dynamic code execution, no serialized-array voodoo. Read the whole source in one sitting.
You are probably the right kind of early adopter if…
For
- You've been burned by a WordPress plugin CVE.
- You're an agency prototyping on an internal site before a client rollout.
- You'd rather write TypeScript than PHP.
- You run WooCommerce on a host billing you for premium cache while your TTFB is 900 ms.
Not yet
- Anyone who needs a visual page builder.
- Anyone whose content is Gutenberg blocks. They're dropped during migration.
- Anyone needing multi-site.
- Anyone needing managed hosting.