Migrating isaacmbira.com from WordPress to Astro
· astro, wordpress, performance
I migrated this site from WordPress to Astro to ship a fully static portfolio with no server to maintain and no plugin attack surface.
The migration script
The old WordPress content was exported as XML and converted to MDX with a
one-time, idempotent script (scripts/wp-export-to-mdx.ts): it parses the
export, turns post HTML into Markdown, downloads and optimizes images to WebP,
and writes .mdx files with frontmatter. Running it twice produces the same
result, so I could iterate safely.
The result
Static output means the homepage is a handful of files on a CDN. No database, no PHP, no render-blocking plugin scripts — just HTML, a little CSS, and self-hosted fonts.