Free, step-by-step Astro tutorials for complete beginners. Build your first fast website with guides tested on the current Astro release.https://astronursery.com/https://astronursery.com/themes/best-free-astro-themes/https://astronursery.com/themes/best-free-astro-themes/The best free themes from astro.build for blogs, portfolios, business sites and docs. We checked which ones already run on Astro 7, and which are behind.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-register-a-domain-for-your-astro-site/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-register-a-domain-for-your-astro-site/Buy a domain for about $11 a year, then point it at Cloudflare or Netlify. We did this for astronursery.com, and these are the exact steps.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/showcase/types-of-websites-you-can-build-with-astro/https://astronursery.com/showcase/types-of-websites-you-can-build-with-astro/From a one-page portfolio to a documentation site with search, here are 20 kinds of websites Astro is good at, what each needs, and the few it isn't right for.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/best-of/best-astro-integrations/https://astronursery.com/best-of/best-astro-integrations/Astro calls its plugins integrations. Here are the 12 worth adding first, each installed with one command, plus the ones Astro 7 no longer needs.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-much-does-an-astro-website-cost/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-much-does-an-astro-website-cost/An Astro site can cost $0 a year. Here's what's free, what costs money, and what we actually pay for this site, so you can plan before you start.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-google-analytics-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-google-analytics-to-astro/Paste Google's tag into your Astro layout with one small change, is:inline, and it works on every page. Or use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which needs no cookie banner.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/themes/what-is-starlight/https://astronursery.com/themes/what-is-starlight/Starlight is the Astro team's free theme for documentation sites. Here's what you get, how to start one in five minutes, and how to add your first page, with screenshots.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/domain-name-vs-web-hosting/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/domain-name-vs-web-hosting/A domain name is your site's address. Hosting is the computer your site lives on. Here's how the two connect, in plain words, and what each one costs.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-contact-form-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-contact-form-to-astro/A static site can't receive form submissions on its own. A free form service can. Here's a working contact form in ten lines, with spam protection built in.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-search-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-search-to-astro/Pagefind gives your static Astro site a real search box in about ten minutes, with no server and no monthly fee. It's what Astro Nursery uses.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-back-up-an-astro-site/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-back-up-an-astro-site/An Astro site is a folder of files, so the backup is GitHub. Here's why that's complete, how to do it in two clicks, and the one thing it doesn't cover.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-comments-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-comments-to-astro/Giscus stores comments as GitHub Discussions, so your static Astro blog gets real comments with no database and no monthly fee. Here's the setup, tested on our test site.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-money-with-an-astro-blog/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-money-with-an-astro-blog/A static Astro site can earn money the same ways a WordPress blog can, and it costs nothing to run. Here are seven ways that work, what each needs, and what to skip.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-write-your-first-post-in-emdash/https://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-write-your-first-post-in-emdash/Write a post in EmDash's editor, save it as a draft, and publish it. We did it on EmDash 1.4, and these are the real screens, including the one step people miss.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-admin-dashboard-tour/https://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-admin-dashboard-tour/What every item in the EmDash admin menu does, from Posts and Media to Redirects, Bylines and Import, with screenshots from EmDash 1.4.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-learn-astro-in-a-week/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-learn-astro-in-a-week/A seven-day plan that takes you from nothing installed to a live Astro site you understand. About an hour a day, all free, with the exact pages to read each day.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-start-a-newsletter-for-your-astro-site/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-start-a-newsletter-for-your-astro-site/Search traffic comes and goes. An email list is yours. Here's how to add a sign-up form to a static Astro site using a free newsletter service, in about 15 minutes.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-change-your-domain-without-losing-rankings/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-change-your-domain-without-losing-rankings/Moving to a new domain is safe if every old address redirects to its new one with a 301. How to set that up on Cloudflare, Netlify and in Astro, then tell Google.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-deploy-emdash-to-cloudflare/https://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-deploy-emdash-to-cloudflare/We deployed EmDash to Cloudflare with one command in 27 seconds. Wrangler made the database, media storage and session store for us. Here are the exact steps.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-templates-compared/https://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-templates-compared/We installed all four EmDash templates and set each one up with its sample content. Here's what each looks like, what it's built for, and which to pick.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/why-is-my-astro-site-slow/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/why-is-my-astro-site-slow/Astro sites are fast by default, so a slow one has a specific cause. The seven usual suspects, how to spot each, and the fix, from big images to too many islands.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-plugins-explained/https://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-plugins-explained/EmDash has plugins, but it builds in much of what WordPress needs plugins for. Here's what comes built in, the two kinds of plugin, and when you'll pay to use them.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/how-much-does-emdash-cost/https://astronursery.com/emdash/how-much-does-emdash-cost/EmDash itself is free. Hosting on Cloudflare's free plan fits most small sites. Here are the real free limits, what pushes you to the $5 plan, and a sample yearly cost.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-vs-ghost/https://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-vs-ghost/Ghost is built for newsletters and paid memberships. EmDash is a flexible CMS on Astro that hosts free on Cloudflare. Here's how they compare, and who should pick which.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-get-your-astro-site-cited-by-ai/https://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-get-your-astro-site-cited-by-ai/AI assistants answer with links. What makes a site easy for them to read and cite: clear pages, structured data, a sitemap, Bing and llms.txt. Honest about what's proven.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-astro-7/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-astro-7/One command moves you from Astro 6 to Astro 7. Then fix the two things that broke for us: tags you never closed, and missing spaces. We ran every step.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-wix/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-wix/Wix is drag and drop for a monthly fee. Astro is free, fast, and yours to keep, but you work with files. Here's an honest look at cost, ease and when Wix wins.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-squarespace/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-squarespace/Squarespace gives you pretty designs for a yearly fee. Astro is free, fast and yours, but you work with files. An honest look at cost, ease and who should pick which.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-move-from-wix-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-move-from-wix-to-astro/Wix has no export button, so you rebuild. Here's how: list your pages, copy your words, rebuild in Astro, keep old links working, then move your domain.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-move-from-squarespace-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-move-from-squarespace-to-astro/Squarespace can export your pages and one blog as a WordPress file. Here's what that file holds, how to turn it into Astro posts, and what you'll rebuild by hand.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-favicon-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-favicon-to-astro/A favicon is the tiny picture in the browser tab. Put three files in your public folder, add three lines to your layout, and it shows on every page.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-navigation-menu-in-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-navigation-menu-in-astro/Build a Header component with links, mark the page you're on, and add a phone menu that opens and closes with no JavaScript. One file, about 60 lines.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-dark-mode-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-dark-mode-to-astro/Make your Astro site follow the phone or computer's dark setting with a few lines of CSS. Then add a button that remembers the choice, with no flash on load.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-an-rss-feed-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-an-rss-feed-to-astro/An RSS feed lets readers follow your blog in a feed reader. Install @astrojs/rss, add one small file, add one tag to your layout, and your feed is live.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-tags-and-categories-to-an-astro-blog/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-tags-and-categories-to-an-astro-blog/Add tags to your posts, then let Astro build a page for every tag on its own. Plus a page of all tags, links on each post, and one category per post.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-pagination-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-pagination-to-astro/Split a long blog list into pages of ten, with Newer and Older links. Astro's paginate() does the math. You write one file, and Astro builds every page.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-astro-command-not-found/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-astro-command-not-found/Seeing sh: astro: command not found? Your project's tools aren't installed, or you're in the wrong folder. Here's the two-minute fix, tested on Astro 7.4.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/why-is-my-astro-site-on-port-4322/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/why-is-my-astro-site-on-port-4322/Astro says Port 4321 is in use, trying another one, and opens on 4322. Something else is using the port. Here's what that means and how to get 4321 back.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-getstaticpaths-required-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-getstaticpaths-required-astro/Astro says getStaticPaths() function is required for dynamic routes? Your [slug].astro page needs a list of pages to build. Here's the fix, tested on Astro 7.4.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-node-js-is-not-supported-by-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-node-js-is-not-supported-by-astro/Astro says Node.js is not supported and asks you to upgrade? Astro 7.4 needs Node.js 22.23.4 or newer. Here's how to check your version and update it.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-local-images-must-be-imported-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/fix-local-images-must-be-imported-astro/Astro says the Image src parameter must be an imported image or a URL, it cannot be a string filepath? Import the picture first. Tested on Astro 7.4.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-astro-website-with-gemini/https://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-astro-website-with-gemini/Use Google's Gemini to build an Astro site, in the free chat or with Antigravity, Google's coding agent that replaced the Gemini CLI in 2026.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/grok-kimi-deepseek-and-other-ai-tools-for-astro/https://astronursery.com/ai/grok-kimi-deepseek-and-other-ai-tools-for-astro/Yes. Any AI chat can write Astro code for you. Here's the method that works with all of them, and which ones also have a coding agent that edits your project.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-astro-website-with-claude/https://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-astro-website-with-claude/Use Claude to build a real Astro site, in the chat at claude.ai or with Claude Code in your terminal. This very site was built that way.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/what-is-emdash/https://astronursery.com/emdash/what-is-emdash/EmDash is a free tool from Cloudflare that adds a writing dashboard to an Astro site. Here's what it does, how it compares to WordPress, and who it's for.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-astro-website-with-chatgpt/https://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-astro-website-with-chatgpt/Use ChatGPT to build an Astro site, either by chatting and pasting code, or with Codex, OpenAI's coding agent that works inside your project.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-install-emdash/https://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-install-emdash/Create your first EmDash site on your own computer. One command sets up the project, then you finish the setup in your browser.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-vs-wordpress/https://astronursery.com/emdash/emdash-vs-wordpress/An honest comparison of EmDash and WordPress on plugins, security, hosting and ease of use, including when WordPress is still the better choice.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/astro-vs-emdash/https://astronursery.com/emdash/astro-vs-emdash/Astro and EmDash aren't rivals. EmDash is a CMS built on Astro. Here's how to decide whether plain Astro is enough for your site.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-emdash-site-with-ai/https://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-build-an-emdash-site-with-ai/EmDash projects ship with files made for AI coding tools. Here's how to use Claude Code or Codex to customize an EmDash site without writing the code yourself.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-migrate-wordpress-to-emdash/https://astronursery.com/emdash/how-to-migrate-wordpress-to-emdash/EmDash can import your WordPress posts, pages and media. Here are the steps, what comes across, and what you'll need to rebuild.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/claude-vs-chatgpt-for-building-websites/https://astronursery.com/ai/claude-vs-chatgpt-for-building-websites/Claude and ChatGPT can both build an Astro site. Here's how they differ in practice, what each costs to use for coding, and how to choose.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/what-is-claude-code/https://astronursery.com/ai/what-is-claude-code/Claude Code is a coding tool from Anthropic. It works inside your project, edits files and runs commands. Here is what it does, and whether a beginner should use it.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/best-ai-tools-for-building-astro-sites/https://astronursery.com/ai/best-ai-tools-for-building-astro-sites/Eight AI tools that can build or change an Astro site, from free chat assistants to coding agents and in-browser builders, and which to start with.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/astro-prompts-for-claude-and-chatgpt/https://astronursery.com/ai/astro-prompts-for-claude-and-chatgpt/Ready-to-use prompts for building an Astro site with AI: setup, pages, a blog, styling, fixing errors and deploying. Each one tells the AI what it needs to know.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-seo-guide/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-seo-guide/Everything an Astro site needs to rank: titles, descriptions, canonical links, a sitemap, social previews and structured data, with code you can copy.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/mistakes-ai-makes-with-astro/https://astronursery.com/ai/mistakes-ai-makes-with-astro/Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools learned Astro from older tutorials. Here are the old patterns they produce, and the current code to use instead.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-nextjs/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-nextjs/Astro and Next.js are both popular, but they're built for different jobs. Here's which one to learn first, and why.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-connect-ai-tools-to-the-astro-docs/https://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-connect-ai-tools-to-the-astro-docs/Stop AI tools guessing at Astro. Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or ChatGPT to the official Astro docs server. Learn what AGENTS.md does.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/what-are-astro-islands/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/what-are-astro-islands/Islands are the idea that makes Astro fast. Here's what they are, in plain words, and what happened when we built a page with four of them.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/best-of/best-cms-for-astro/https://astronursery.com/best-of/best-cms-for-astro/The best content management systems for Astro, from EmDash to Keystatic and Sanity, and how to pick one without overthinking it.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-react-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-react-to-astro/Add React to an Astro site with one command, build a counter component, and turn it into an island that works in the browser.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-fix-astro-errors-with-ai/https://astronursery.com/ai/how-to-fix-astro-errors-with-ai/A simple method for getting an AI to fix an Astro error on the first try: what to paste, what to say, and what to check before you trust the fix.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/astro-client-directives-explained/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/astro-client-directives-explained/Astro has five client directives. They decide when an island loads its JavaScript. Here is what each one does, plus a simple rule for picking.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-deploy-astro-to-cloudflare-workers/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-deploy-astro-to-cloudflare-workers/Put your Astro site online with Cloudflare Workers in four steps. This is how Astro Nursery itself is hosted, so every step has been run for real.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-tailwind-css-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-tailwind-css-to-astro/Add Tailwind CSS to an Astro site with one command, then style your first element. Tested on Astro 7.4 and Tailwind 4.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-use-server-islands-in-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-use-server-islands-in-astro/A server island lets one part of a page be made fresh on each visit. The rest of the page stays static. Here is how to set one up, with the adapter it needs.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/do-you-need-react-with-astro/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/do-you-need-react-with-astro/Astro lets you add React. Most beginner sites don't need it. Here's how to add clicks and toggles with a plain script, and when a framework earns its place.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-images-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-images-to-astro/Add an image to your Astro site, and let Astro shrink and convert it for you. One test image went from 62 kB to 5 kB.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/best-of/best-hosting-for-astro/https://astronursery.com/best-of/best-hosting-for-astro/Our two picks are Spacefast, from the makers of WordPress.com, and Cloudflare, which made EmDash. Here's why, plus how Netlify, Vercel and GitHub Pages compare.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-sitemap-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-sitemap-to-astro/Make a sitemap for your Astro site in three steps, so search engines can find every page. Includes the robots.txt line.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-custom-fonts-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-custom-fonts-to-astro/Use Astro's built-in Fonts API to add a Google or Fontsource font in three steps, with the font files served from your own site.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-view-transitions-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-view-transitions-to-astro/Make moving between pages feel smooth with Astro's ClientRouter, or with one line of CSS that needs no JavaScript at all.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-404-page-in-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-404-page-in-astro/Replace the plain 'not found' error with a helpful page of your own. It takes one file.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-a-website-with-astro/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-a-website-with-astro/Build and publish your first website with Astro in about an hour. No coding experience needed, just a computer and a free account.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-astro/Three ways to move from WordPress to Astro, from keeping WordPress as your editor to exporting everything to Markdown files.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/news/astro-7-what-beginners-need-to-know/https://astronursery.com/news/astro-7-what-beginners-need-to-know/Astro 7 brings faster builds and stricter HTML rules. Here's what changed, in plain English, and what it means if you're just starting out.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/what-is-astro/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/what-is-astro/Astro is a free tool that makes fast websites. Here's what it does, who it's for, and how it compares to WordPress, in words anyone can follow.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-wordpress/https://astronursery.com/beginners-guide/astro-vs-wordpress/A plain look at Astro and WordPress on cost, speed, security and ease of use. Also when WordPress is the better choice.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/showcase/big-brands-using-astro/https://astronursery.com/showcase/big-brands-using-astro/From IKEA to Porsche, real organisations appear in Astro's official showcase. Here's who's on it, and what it means for your first site.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-blog-to-astro/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-blog-to-astro/Add a blog to your Astro site with content collections. Write posts in Markdown and let Astro build the pages for you.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-deploy-astro-to-github-pages/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-deploy-astro-to-github-pages/Put your Astro site online with GitHub Pages. It will update on its own each time you push a change.Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-fix-common-astro-errors/https://astronursery.com/tutorials/how-to-fix-common-astro-errors/The errors beginners hit most often in Astro, what they actually mean, and how to fix each one.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/integrations/how-to-add-an-astro-integration/https://astronursery.com/integrations/how-to-add-an-astro-integration/Integrations add new powers to your Astro site, a bit like plugins. Here is how to add one with a single command.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/themes/how-to-install-an-astro-theme/https://astronursery.com/themes/how-to-install-an-astro-theme/Astro themes aren't installed like WordPress themes. Here's how to start a project from a theme and make it your own.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astronursery.com/opinion/your-first-website-should-be-static/https://astronursery.com/opinion/your-first-website-should-be-static/Beginners are often told to start with a big platform. We think a simple static site teaches you more and costs you less.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT