wesbos migrates 15-year WordPress site to Emdash with agent skills, page speed jumps 52 to 75
ritakozlov · x · 2026-11-06
Developer wesbos migrated his wife's WordPress site — hosted 15 years on a $600/year Bluehost plan — to Emdash using Emdash skills. The move covered 307 posts, 6.7GB of photos, 4 custom content types, 5 custom page templates, 15 custom fields, and converted one semi-complicated plugin plus several simple ones, including migrating off Stylus. The result: pixel-perfect front end, page speed score up from 52 to 75, and a fast admin that's easy for a WordPress user. A concrete showcase of agent skills handling a full real-world site migration.
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