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Kaleta vs WordPress.

WordPress can do almost anything – with the right plugins. Kaleta does what a business website needs out of the box, and Claude can build it for you. Here is an honest comparison, including when WordPress is the better choice.

Move from WordPress Download Kaleta

Choose Kaleta if.

you build business websites: services, references, team, news and enquiries

you want Claude to build and edit the site, with drafts and previews

you want one tested system instead of add-ons and subscriptions

you want the site on your own hosting, free and open source

Stay with WordPress if.

you need an online shop, memberships or online courses
you rely on a specific plugin or a large theme library
your team and your clients already know WordPress well
you need a large developer and hosting ecosystem around the site

Side by side

Feature by feature.

Kaleta

WordPress + page builder + plugins

Licence and cost

Kaleta

GPL-2.0-or-later, free. No paid tiers or paid add-ons.

WordPress

Core is GPL and free. Page builders and many plugins are freemium or paid yearly.

Visual builder

Kaleta

Built in: 36 elements, 39 ready-made sections, styles per screen size and hover.

WordPress

Through a plugin (Elementor, Divi, Breakdance…) or the block editor. Very mature, with large template libraries.

Building with AI

Kaleta

Claude connects over MCP with the permissions of your account: drafts, signed previews, publish when you say so.

WordPress

Depends on the stack: builder-specific AI features or third-party MCP plugins.

Design system

Kaleta

Colours, fonts and spacing as tokens, shared classes and components, W3C Design Tokens export.

WordPress

Global styles in the block theme or the page builder; varies by plugin.

Forms, SEO, redirects, statistics

Kaleta

Built in: forms with an enquiry inbox, sitemap, structured data, llms.txt, 301 redirects, cookie-free statistics.

WordPress

Usually separate plugins (for example a form plugin, an SEO plugin, a redirect plugin, analytics).

Languages

Kaleta

Language versions built in: around forty site languages, visitor texts translated into eight.

WordPress

Through multilingual plugins, often paid, with many languages.

Backups and updates

Kaleta

Automatic database backups (also off-server), signed updates, security releases install on their own, automatic rollback.

WordPress

Core updates automatically; plugins, themes and backups depend on what you install and on the host.

Page weight

Kaleta

Clean HTML, CSS only for the elements on the page, no JavaScript libraries – a starter page is about 40 kB.

WordPress

Depends on the theme, builder and plugins; builder pages are often much heavier.

Extending it

Kaleta

Nine built-in extensions and a read-only JSON API. No third-party plugins by design.

WordPress

Tens of thousands of plugins and themes for almost any need.

E-commerce, memberships, courses

Kaleta

Not included.

WordPress

WooCommerce and many membership and LMS plugins.

Hosting

Kaleta

Any hosting with PHP 8.4+ and MySQL 8 / MariaDB 10.6+; install over FTP in about ten minutes.

WordPress

Runs almost anywhere; many managed WordPress hosts.

Community

Kaleta

New (2026) and small; open development on GitHub.

WordPress

One of the largest open-source communities on the web.

Checked in September 2026 against Kaleta 1.2. Other systems change quickly – check the current state of the tools you use.

Where WordPress is stronger

An ecosystem for everything.

Tens of thousands of plugins, WooCommerce, memberships and courses, a huge community, a large pool of developers and hosting built around it. If your site depends on any of that, WordPress is the right tool – and that is fine.

Where Kaleta is stronger

One system, no plugin pile.

Builder, design system, forms, SEO, redirects, statistics and backups come as one tested whole, updates are signed and security releases install themselves, and Claude can build the site with you – safely, as drafts you approve.

Moving over

Moving from WordPress.

The WordPress importer brings posts, pages, categories, tags and images, and creates 301 redirects from every old address. Comments, user accounts and page-builder layouts do not come across – rebuild those pages in the builder, or ask Claude to do it from the old page.

Move from WordPress How Claude works with Kaleta

FAQ

Questions from WordPress users.

Will my Elementor or Divi layouts come across?

No. The importer brings the content, but layouts made with a page builder are not converted. Rebuild them from ready-made sections, or give Claude the old page and let it build a draft.