Website
Lumbra Creative — leaving WordPress
Our own website: from a heavy WordPress install with 16 plugins to a static site that loads in an instant and needs no updates.
- 16 → 0 plugins to maintain and update
- 1,1 GB → 16 MB used on the server
- 36 065 → 253 files on the hosting
- 100 for accessibility and SEO in Lighthouse
The challenge
Lumbra’s old website ran on WordPress with a purchased theme, Elementor and 16 plugins: page builder, caching, security, SEO, forms, cookie banner, chat… Each with its own updates, its own security holes and its own weight. The homepage alone loaded 44 stylesheets.
And for all that, the content was hollow: empty service cards, a portfolio with three names and a stock photo. The classic problem — a lot of work keeping the machine running, very little work on show.
Our approach
We rebuilt it from scratch as a static site: pages are generated once, at publish time, and the server only has to hand out files. No database, no plugins, no admin panel exposed to attacks.
- Portfolio in Markdown. Each project is a text file with its images alongside. Each one gets its own page, share image and sitemap entry.
- Automatically optimised images in several sizes and modern formats.
- A 3D moment — the prism that turns white light into the brand colours — that only loads on computers that can handle it. Phones and slow connections get a static version.
- Portuguese and English, with their own addresses and structured data for Google.
- Publishing is one command. Changes reach the server in seconds, with full history in Git.
The old WordPress addresses were redirected to the new pages, so nothing Google already knew was lost.
The result
A website that shows the work instead of hiding it, loads in an instant and never asks for updates in the middle of the night. In Lighthouse, accessibility and SEO score 100 and desktop performance sits between 99 and 100.
Have a slow or hard-to-maintain WordPress site? We’ll do the same for yours.
