Why I Ship Laravel Instead of WordPress for SMB Clients

<p>WordPress served a purpose. But for most small business marketing sites, the overhead isn't justified by the use case. Here's the honest accounting of what running WordPress

<p>In today's dynamic digital environment, merely functional web solutions fall short. Businesses and individuals demand applications that are powerful, inherently secure, and

<p>12+ years in PHP. I still ship production code in <strong>both</strong> Laravel and CodeIgniter 4 today — Laravel runs a surveillance analytics dashboard I maintain,

<p>When Andrés and I started building websites, WordPress was one of the first things we tried.</p> <p>It made sense. There were themes, plugins for almost everything, and you