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Writers kept the WordPress they know. Readers got a hand-built front end that loads fast, reads clean and never fights them. Three weeks after launch the numbers spoke for themselves.
The old site was a plugin-heavy WordPress monolith that spawned rogue processes, leaked its own paywall and frustrated most of the people who visited it. ALCO kept the editor the newsroom knew, shrank it to a backend, and built everything the public touches by hand.
WordPress
GraphQL
Stripe
Cloudflare Enterprise
ALCO hosting
Delivered
Headless WordPress backend, trimmed to publishing
Hand-built front end fed over GraphQL
In-house paywall talking straight to Stripe
Managed hosting behind Cloudflare Enterprise, monitoring and care
The whole page, top to bottom.
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easyreadernews.com
Captured from easyreadernews.com on October 20, 2026.
