Child themes in Laravel, the WordPress way
Make a kitloom child theme the WordPress way: override a template, layout or Vue component, change colours in Customize, keep the parent's updates and SEO.
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kitloom vs Statamic: two Laravel CMSs, two starting points
Statamic is a mature Laravel CMS for building a site from scratch, with content in flat files by default. kitloom is a Laravel CMS that runs on a WordPress database as it is and lets an AI agent run the site. Which one fits depends on where you start.
Keeping Advanced Custom Fields data when you move from WordPress to Laravel
ACF keeps field groups as posts and values under meta keys of its own design. kitloom/custom-fields reads both as ACF left them, all 37 field types, so a site keeps its fields in Laravel.
Your Contact Form 7 forms and Flamingo messages after moving to Laravel
Contact Form 7 keeps forms as posts and Flamingo keeps every message. kitloom/forms reads both as the plugins left them, so forms, shortcodes and years of messages come along to Laravel.
How kitloom is tested: 4,700 tests, two admins and a video lesson for every screen
Every kitloom package carries its own tests, both skeletons test how the packages fit together, every module's README describes what it does, and the video lessons drive the real admin once more.
kitloom vs Corcel: Eloquent models over WordPress, and the rest of the site
Corcel and kitloom both put Eloquent models over the WordPress tables. Corcel stops there and leaves WordPress as the admin. kitloom adds the site, the admin and the plugins' data, and retires WordPress.
kitloom vs headless WordPress: keeping the data without keeping WordPress
Headless WordPress keeps WordPress as the back end and builds a new front. kitloom keeps the WordPress database and replaces WordPress itself. Which one fits depends on what you want to leave behind.
Keeping Rank Math's SEO titles, sitemaps and redirects when you move to Laravel
Rank Math keeps SEO settings in options, each page's head in meta and redirects in tables of its own. kitloom reads all of them as Rank Math left them, so rankings have nothing new to adjust to.
Run your site from Claude or Cursor: a CMS with an MCP server built in
kitloom puts an MCP server on every site. Claude, Cursor or your own agent writes posts, fixes SEO, sets up redirects and reads the day's orders, with exactly the rights of the user whose key it holds.
Moving a WooCommerce shop to Laravel with its products, orders and customers
A WooCommerce shop lives in its own tables, meta keys and options. kitloom/shop reads them as WooCommerce left them, so products, HPOS orders and customer accounts come along to Laravel.
Introducing kitloom
A Laravel CMS that runs on a WordPress database — so a WordPress site can move to Laravel with its content, its URLs and its editors' habits.
Leaving WordPress without losing your search rankings
Rankings drop after a re-platforming when URLs, titles, canonicals or redirects change. kitloom keeps the same URLs, reads Rank Math's SEO data and redirects, and lets you check every page before the switch.
Moving a WordPress site to Laravel without moving the content
The hard part of leaving WordPress for Laravel is not the code, it is the data — URLs, users, custom fields, plugin tables. kitloom skips that part by running on the WordPress database as it is.
ACF, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, Rank Math: your plugin data after moving to Laravel
A WordPress site is as much its plugins' data as its posts. kitloom modules read ACF fields, Contact Form 7 forms and Flamingo messages, WooCommerce products and orders, and Rank Math's SEO and redirects in the plugins' own formats.
Look at your WordPress site in Laravel before you move it
kitloom can draw a WordPress site from its live database with a read-only MySQL user, and a script compares both sites page by page — so a move to Laravel is rehearsed, not hoped for.
Why we built a WordPress-shaped CMS for Laravel
Laravel teams keep inheriting WordPress sites, and every rewrite stalls on the data. So we built a Laravel CMS that runs on the WordPress database instead of importing from it — what that took, and what it is not.
Why kitloom
Start from WordPress, grow on Laravel, run it with AI: seven reasons to build your next site on kitloom — an AI agent does the work under your control, your WordPress site comes along or a new one starts in minutes, the code is plain Laravel, and the pages pass Google's Lighthouse checks.
Why kitloom has no free version
No free tier, no basic edition, no trial clock. You can see all of kitloom before you pay, and if it isn't worth the money once you've used it, you get all of it back. You make that call, not us.
A WordPress alternative that keeps your WordPress site
Most WordPress alternatives start with moving the content out. kitloom is a Laravel CMS that runs on the WordPress database as it is — same posts, URLs, users and plugin data — and what you give up for it.
WordPress and kitloom on the same database: a benchmark
Ten thousand posts served by WordPress and by kitloom from the same MySQL — kitloom is faster on most pages, WordPress still wins search, and kitloom with every module stays ahead of WordPress with three common plugins.