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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finally ditched WordPress for client sites — should have done it years ago

I've been running a digital marketing agency since 2007 and spent much of that time building and managing client sites on Drupal and then WordPress. Plugin updates, security patches, broken themes after updates, hosting headaches — it was a constant drain on time and margin.We started transitioning to Duda about two years ago and went all-in about six months ago. It's been a game-changer for our agency.The editor is intuitive, the white-label options are legit, and I can spin up a professional client site in a fraction of the time it took on WordPress. No more babysitting plugins or fielding panicked calls because a site went down after an update. Client sites just work.But here's the big one — profitability. WordPress eats agency margins alive with maintenance, troubleshooting, and scope creep from "small fixes" that turn into full debugging sessions. With Duda, our build times dropped significantly, our maintenance overhead nearly disappeared, and we actually make money on web projects now instead of treating them as loss leaders for other services.The team management features, client permissions, and site duplication tools are built for agencies, not bolted on as an afterthought. You can tell this platform was designed by people who understand how agencies actually operate.Not perfect — there are things I'd love to see improved — but compared to the WordPress treadmill, Duda has been one of the best business decisions we've made.— Tony Wright, CEO, WrightIMC

Date of experience: Feb 06, 2026