WordPress and Astro can both power a blog, portfolio, or business website, but they give you different starting points. WordPress includes a content management system with an editing dashboard, user accounts, and a media library. Astro is a web framework that lets developers build the front end and choose how content is managed.

For many projects, the deciding question is who will edit the site after launch. A developer maintaining a site through code has different needs from a client who wants to update services, publish articles, and manage inquiries independently.

My experience is mainly with WordPress sites built around options pages, custom post types, and custom fields. I approached Astro from that perspective: where does it simplify the work, and where does it require a different setup?…