Benjamin Thornton
Benjamin is one of the two people behind Ditchplugins. The company started with his own site: an agency-built WordPress install on Elementor, stuffed with plugins, that took more debugging than editing — and Core Web Vitals that never stayed green for long.
After a $2,000 quote to fix them one more time, he and Artem moved the whole thing to Astro in under ten days instead. It got faster, the vitals held, and updating it stopped requiring a developer. He writes here about what that migration actually cost, what it broke, and what it did not.
2 posts
11 min readYou probably don't need a dynamic website
Most people never decide whether their website should be dynamic or static: WordPress decides for them. Here is what each one costs you, and how to tell which your marketing site actually needs.
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9 min readWhy I quit WordPress in 2026
I've built sites on Squarespace, Wix, Webflow and WordPress. None gave me more headaches than WordPress. Here are the four things that finally made me pull the plug — and what changed after we migrated to Astro.
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