Next.js
WordPress still powers a huge share of business websites in Kenya, mostly because it's familiar and there's no shortage of people who can "do WordPress." But familiarity isn't the same as being the right tool for the job, and a growing number of our web development clients come to us after their WordPress site has slowed down, gotten hacked, or simply become too fragile to change without breaking something.
If your site is genuinely simple — a handful of static pages, a blog updated a few times a month, and no complex custom functionality — WordPress with a well-chosen theme and a handful of plugins can be the pragmatic choice, especially on a tight budget.
It's also the right call if your internal team needs to make frequent content edits themselves and doesn't have any engineering support — the WordPress editor is genuinely easier for a non-technical person to pick up than a custom-built admin panel, at least at first.
The moment a site needs custom logic — a wholesale ordering portal, tiered pricing, an integration with M-Pesa or a booking system — WordPress requires stacking plugins on top of plugins, each one a potential security hole and a future compatibility headache. We've inherited WordPress sites running twenty-plus plugins, several of them abandoned by their developers years ago.
Performance is the other recurring issue. Core Web Vitals directly affect both Google rankings and conversion rates, and a plugin-heavy WordPress site is fighting an uphill battle against a framework built for speed from the ground up.
Next.js gives us server-rendered pages that load fast by default, a component-based architecture that makes future changes safe rather than fragile, and direct control over exactly what ships to the browser — no plugin bloat, no unexplained slowdowns.
Paired with Supabase for the backend, we can ship custom functionality — authentication, a CMS-like content model, payment integrations — without WordPress's plugin roulette. It costs more upfront than a templated WordPress site, but for a business whose website is core to how it operates or sells, it pays for itself in fewer support fires and better search rankings.
The honest answer to "which one should I use" is: if your site just needs to exist, WordPress is fine. If your site needs to work hard for the business, build it properly the first time.
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Professional web platforms built with Next.js and Supabase — fast, scalable, and SEO-optimized.
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