wordpress-to-astro
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Writing Content with Markdown in Astro: What WordPress Developers Need to Know
How Markdown works in Astro, what frontmatter is, and why plain text content can feel cleaner than WordPress for developer-owned sites.
Read →Content Collections in Astro: The Right Way to Manage Structured Content
Why Content Collections exist, how to set them up with the modern Astro content API, and how Zod schema validation keeps content reliable.
Read →My First Two Days Learning Astro as a WordPress Developer
An honest two-day Astro learning diary from a WordPress developer, covering local development, VS Code, pages, layouts, and the real beginner mistakes that made the workflow finally click.
Read →Astro Pages, Layouts and Components: The First Three Concepts to Learn
How Astro's file-based routing, shared layouts, and reusable components work, explained for WordPress developers who think in themes, templates and shortcodes.
Read →Styling in Astro: Start with Plain CSS Before Reaching for Tailwind
How CSS works in Astro, including scoped styles, global CSS, CSS variables, and why a clean layout doesn't need a framework. With the actual CSS used to build this demo site.
Read →How to Set Up Your First Astro Project: A Step-by-Step Beginner Guide
Step-by-step Astro setup guide for beginners and WordPress developers, covering Node.js, Git, VS Code, localhost, GitHub, and common first-project mistakes.
Read →What is Astro? A WordPress Developer's Honest Take
Astro explained by someone who spent 10+ years building WordPress sites. What Astro is, what it is not, when it beats WordPress, and when WordPress is still the better choice.
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