WordPress sites, plugins and all, faster than the PHP stack.
The same WordPress sites, plugins and all: over 4.5 times the pages per second of a tuned WordPress, and pages back in a third of the time, for WooCommerce and Elementor pages. See the comparison.
Early access. For people who run their own server and like to try things. Put it on one site of your own for $1€0.85, and take the site back to WordPress with one command. What early access means →
- Elementor page
- 29 ms
- WordPress: 111 ms
- WooCommerce shop
- 30 ms
- WordPress: 143 ms
- Under full load, Elementor
- 162 pages/s
- WordPress: 36 pages/s
- Under full load, WooCommerce
- 134 pages/s
- WordPress: 28 pages/s
4-vCPU Intel server, same site on both, no page cache, BookPress 0.2.64. See the comparison
Try a real WordPress site running on BookPress.
- Sign in with the login shown when you start, and publish a post.
- Browse the WooCommerce shop and the Elementor page.
- Read what the demo cannot show you yet.
Your sandbox is deleted 15 minutes after you start it.
Put nothing personal into it.
- BookPress engine
- 0.2.64
- Theme
- Kadence 1.5.2
- Plugins
- WooCommerce, Elementor, Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, Yoast Duplicate Post, Hello Dolly
- Machine
- Google Cloud e2-micro
2 shared vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 30 GB disk - Page cache
- none
- Sign in
- shown on demo launch
- Lifetime
- 15 minutes
The smallest instance Google Cloud sells.
Still WordPress, without the weight.
BookPress replaces PHP-FPM and MySQL with one compiled engine. Your content, your theme and your admin stay as they are.
✓ Your theme renders for real
Templates, template parts, patterns and global styles render from the same theme files WordPress uses.
✓ Your plugins run, checked first
We check each plugin before it runs, so you know which ones work before your site moves. WooCommerce and Elementor run.
✓ Your admin keeps working
Log in at /wp-admin as before. Dashboard, posts, pages,
editor, settings. Your WordPress password works after migration.
✓ Your URLs stay put
Permalinks, pagination, archives and ?p=123 redirects
behave as they do on WordPress.
Check if your site is compatible
Install our free plugin on your WordPress site and run the scan. It reads the plugins and theme you have installed, changes nothing, and tells you which of them run on BookPress.
- Download the plugin.
- In wp-admin, open Plugins, Add New, Upload Plugin. Choose the file and activate it.
- Open Tools, BookPress Readiness and run the scan.
What it checks and how to install it Or answer five questions
BookPress Readiness 1.0.0, 57 KB. WordPress 5.6 or later, PHP 7.2 or later.
Measured against a well-tuned WordPress setup
WordPress ran on PHP-FPM with OPcache and JIT, a Redis object
cache and MariaDB. Both sides served the same site with no page cache, on a
4-vCPU Intel server and a 4-vCPU ARM server (Google Cloud
c2-standard-4 and c4a-standard-4).
We counted the requests each engine served a second at full load.
BookPress 0.2.64 (the packaged build you install), measured 19 October 2026.
Median and 99th-percentile response times for every page and server are on the benchmark page.
Questions people ask first
Is BookPress a WordPress fork?
No. It's an independent engine that implements WordPress behavior in native code: the theme system, the admin, the URLs. Your content and themes stay portable in both directions.
How much faster?
On real WooCommerce and Elementor pages, BookPress serves about over 4.5 times the requests per second of a tuned WordPress (PHP-FPM, OPcache with JIT, Redis object cache, no page cache on either side) on a 4-vCPU Intel server, and over 5 times on a 4-vCPU Arm server. A site with no plugins serves about 112.9 times the requests per second on the Intel server and 125 times on the Arm server, measured with no plugins installed. With a page cache in front, WordPress serves a repeat visit from the cache, which measures neither engine.
What about my plugins?
BookPress checks every plugin before it runs and tells you which ones work. A plugin that would fail comes back named, with the file and the line. WooCommerce and Elementor run. Heavy custom PHP is out of scope for now.
How does migration work?
One command in: wp bookpress import --dir=<wp-root>.
One command out: wp bookpress export --dir=<wp-root>.
Each command asks before it writes. Import leaves your WordPress and its
database unmodified, and a site that goes in and back out is
byte-identical. Both commands with their
output →
How do I install and update it?
Run curl -fsSL https://bookpress.io/install.sh | sudo sh
on the server. BookPress then updates itself, and goes back to the
previous version if the site stops answering after an update.
What does it cost?
Per site, worked out from the infrastructure you stop paying for, from $1.00€0.85 per site per month at Starter down to $0.45€0.38 at Agency, and per vCPU above 500 sites. Billed annually. The pricing page has the tiers and how we work the number out.
Run it on your sites
License BookPress by the site and run it on your own servers.