It’s getting replaced by websites built with AI.
At the beginning of the vibecoding era, the common thinking was: AI is good enough for a static page, but maintaining and updating it is cumbersome.
That was also my own experience. In 2024, I worked on a project in Replit, and while editing some part of the website on a sub page via AI prompt, my homepage vanished, and I was not able to bring it back. A frustrating experience.
But over the last couple of months, something changed.
Tools like Lovable, Replit, Cursor, and a gazillion others have become extremely good at both scaling a site from a single landing page to a multi-page website and making surgical edits without breaking things elsewhere.
I’ve always been a WordPress fan. For a long time, I was firmly in the camp of “for keeping a site in shape, updated, and maintained, a real CMS still wins.”
That’s no longer true for me.
After spending so much time in Lovable, Replit and Cursor, learning how to publish via GitHub and Vercel, and comparing that to the frustrating editing experience in block-based editors, my mind has changed.
I was never really happy with that editing experience that got shipped in recent WordPress versions anyway over the last couple of years. And the fact that the block editor is now some mix of page builder, content editor, and writing editor still feels confusing to me.
Building layouts with the WordPress block-based editor is cumbersome, and this is exactly where AI shines. You create prompts in natural language, describe your ideal page, or provide mockups or screenshots, and AI creates it. You do not worry about choosing column or grid layouts, changing settings for padding or margin, you just prompt it.
WordPress is used by 59.7% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 42.5% of all websites.
–Usage statistics and market share of WordPress by w3techs.com
WordPress is still the driving force among leading CMSs. But I don’t think it will be disrupted by any single CMS. Instead, websites will run whatever the AI suggests for a specific type of site, and very often it will just generate, update, and publish, without the user having to take care of it or worry about it.
