WordPress works well for a site of pages, posts and forms. Here are our articles on where it is enough, the signs a business has outgrown it and how to move on without losses.
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WordPress fits when the site is mostly pages, posts and forms, the rules are standard and nobody plans to grow it into a business system. Laravel is for a site that carries rules of your own: prices that depend on the customer, client accounts, approvals, links to a CRM or an ERP, a load that keeps growing. It costs more to build and needs a team that knows it, so settle who will maintain the site before you settle what it runs on. More in Laravel or WordPress for a Business Website.
There is no magic number: not 20 plugins, not 100 pages. The signs are different: the plugin stack becomes the actual product, performance degrades quietly and then suddenly, maintenance starts outgrowing the business and the company's logic stops mapping to plugins. The full list is in When Does a Business Outgrow WordPress?. Diagnose before you move: sometimes the problem is poor maintenance, an outdated theme or too many plugins, not the platform.
Patchstack counted 11,334 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem in 2025, 42% more than in 2024: 91% in plugins, 9% in themes and only 6 in core. How business websites get hacked, what to close first (access, then backups and updates) and what to do in the first hour after a breach: How Do Business Websites Get Hacked?.
A wrong architecture decision rarely shows on day one. It shows two years later, as a rebuild nobody budgeted for: The Hidden Cost of Choosing the Wrong Architecture.
We support WordPress sites and build custom ones on Laravel, which has its own collection of articles. Website support starts at $1,000 a month, an audit before modernization at $300 for small sites, Laravel development at $75 an hour or projects from $15,000. Services: website maintenance and support, website modernization, Laravel development.
