Twelve months after migrating wppoland.com from WordPress to Astro on Cloudflare Pages

Short summary

A year-long post-migration retrospective reveals that moving from WordPress to Astro on Cloudflare Pages was only the prologue. The real work involved thousands of redirect rules, six-locale structural parity, build memory limits requiring local builds, and wiring validators to replace checks WordPress performed silently. The trade was worth it for edge-rendered speed, reduced attack surface, and predictable crawler access.

• •The visible migration is only 20% of the work; redirects, locale parity, and build limits dominate
• •Cloudflare Pages has a ~100KB redirect file cap and ~8GB build memory limit — both require workarounds
• •WordPress silently handles link validation, sitemaps, and multilingual structure that static sites must engineer explicitly

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