Why We Moved Our Blog From WordPress To Kajabi

You want to start a blog. You've got things to say. So you fire up WordPress because that's what everyone uses, right?

Wrong move.

Here's what actually happens: You spend three hours picking a theme. Then another two hours trying to make it look like the demo (it never does). Then you need plugins. Lots of plugins. SEO plugins, security plugins, caching plugins, form plugins, backup plugins. Pretty soon you've got 30 plugins running and your site loads like it's 2005.

Something breaks. You don't know what. Plugin conflict? Theme update? WordPress update? Who knows. Your site's down and you're Googling error messages at 11pm.

This isn't blogging. This is systems administration.

The WordPress Trap

WordPress started as blogging software. Simple, focused, good at one thing. Then it became a "platform." Now it wants to be everything to everyone. E-commerce site? Sure. Membership site? Why not. Social network? Go for it.

The problem with trying to be everything is you end up being mediocre at most things.

Want to change your header font? Good luck finding where that setting lives. Want your sidebar in a specific spot? Better learn CSS. Want a table of contents? There's a plugin for that. Want comments to work properly? Another plugin. Want your site to load fast? Three more plugins.

Every simple thing requires research, installation, configuration, and hope.

What You Actually Need

Let's be honest about what most people need from a blog:

• A place to write
• A way to publish
• A way for people to read
• Maybe some basic email capture

That's it. You don't need 47 configuration options. You don't need to choose between 18 different heading styles. You don't need a plugin marketplace.

You need to write and ship.

The Plugin Problem

Plugins are WordPress's answer to everything. Need a feature? There's a plugin for that.

Except plugins are other people's code running on your site. Code you don't control. Code that needs updates. Code that conflicts with other code. Code that sometimes just stops working because the developer moved on.

Each plugin is a bet that someone else will maintain something forever. That's a lot of bets.

And here's the thing nobody tells you: most plugins are solving problems you created by using WordPress in the first place. You need a caching plugin because WordPress is slow. You need a security plugin because WordPress is a target. You need a backup plugin because things break.

It's turtles all the way down.

The Real Cost

"But WordPress is free!" people say.

Sure. And then you pay for:

• Hosting that can handle it
• Premium themes that actually work
• Premium plugins for basic features
• Developer time when things break
• Your own time learning, updating, troubleshooting

Nothing's free. You're just paying in different currencies.

The bigger cost? Opportunity cost. Every hour spent fighting WordPress is an hour not spent writing. Not creating. Not doing the thing you set out to do.

Simpler Tools Exist

We moved our company blog to Kajabi. Not because it's trendy. Not because it does everything. Because it does what we need and nothing more.

Kajabi isn't free, but it's honest about its costs. You pay money, you get a working blog. No assembly required. No plugin roulette. No 3am troubleshooting sessions.

It's not exciting. It doesn't have a massive plugin directory. It can't become seventeen different things. It just lets you write and publish.

For us, that's exactly what we needed.

The Sunk Cost Fallacy

"But I've already invested so much time in WordPress."

That's the sunk cost fallacy talking. Past time spent doesn't make future time better spent.

If WordPress is making your life harder, that doesn't get better because you've already suffered through it. It just means more suffering ahead.

Complexity is Easy, Simplicity is Hard

Adding features is easy. Adding options is easy. Adding plugins is easy.

Saying no is hard. Keeping things simple is hard. Resisting the urge to add just one more thing is hard.

WordPress took the easy path. Everything's an option. Everything's configurable. Everything's possible.

But possible and practical aren't the same thing.

Just Start Writing

Stop optimising. Stop configuring. Stop installing. Stop researching "the best" plugins.

Pick something simple. Start writing. Ship regularly.

Your first 100 posts won't be perfect. Your site won't be perfect. That's fine. Perfection is the enemy of done.

The best blogging platform is the one that gets out of your way and lets you write. For most people, that's not WordPress.

It might have been once. But that was a long time ago.