Local-First Is Still the WordPress Promise
Opinion: a CMS you cannot copy to a laptop is a landlord. WordPress should stay a suitcase.
by Alex Harlan·April 18, 2026·0 Comments
Hosted convenience is fine. Lock-in dressed as convenience is not. If you cannot export, you do not own the site. You rent a vibe.
Playground, Studio, and XML exports are not nostalgia. They are the original deal: your content, your files, your move.
Guard that deal even when the demo looks prettier in someone else’s cloud.
