Website migration/WordPress
Spending more time maintaining WordPress than using it?
Keep everything your website does well, and leave the maintenance treadmill behind.
WordPress powers a huge share of the web for good reason. It is flexible, open source and backed by an enormous community. For many organizations, it is still the right tool.
But over the years, many WordPress sites collect plugins, themes, page builders and workarounds. Each update becomes a small risk, pages slow down, and simple edits start to need a developer. If that sounds familiar, we can help you decide whether moving makes sense, and handle the transition if it does.
Wondering if it is time to leave WordPress? Let’s look at your site together.
Talk About Your WebsiteWhy organizations move from WordPress
Most teams do not leave WordPress because of one big problem. It is the steady build-up of small ones.
Sites often rely on dozens of plugins for forms, SEO, sliders, caching and security. Updates can conflict with each other, and one abandoned plugin can hold everything back.
Features we build live directly in your site, not in a stack of add-ons.
Core, theme and plugin updates arrive regularly, and outdated plugins are one of the most common ways WordPress sites get compromised.
A custom site has a far smaller surface to patch, and we keep it updated for you.
Layers of page-builder markup, shortcodes and custom CSS make pages heavy and editing fragile. Change one block and something else shifts.
Content is stored as clean, structured content that is easy to edit and fast to load.
Keeping a busy WordPress site fast often means premium hosting tiers, caching plugins and image optimization tools working together.
Modern hosting and lean code make speed the default.
When staff are afraid of breaking something, every small change becomes a request to a developer, and updates slow down.
We build admin tools your communications team can use confidently.
Menus for every plugin, settings no one remembers adding and warnings to dismiss make day-to-day administration harder than it should be.
Your team only sees the tools they actually use.
What a custom website provides instead
Instead of assembling a site from a theme and a long list of plugins, we build the features your organization uses directly into the website, using modern web technology and secure managed hosting.
Your team gets a simple admin built around the updates they make every week. Pages load quickly without caching plugins. Backups and updates happen in the background.
Where it fits the project, your organization owns the domain, hosting accounts and source code, not the agency.
Is moving right for you?
WordPress may still be a good fit if:
It may be time to move if:
We are happy to tell you if staying put makes more sense.
What the WordPress migration covers
Your existing website stays live while your new one is built. Here is what we take care of along the way.
We export your posts, pages, media, categories and custom fields, strip out shortcodes and page-builder markup, and bring everything across as clean, structured content.
WordPress creates many kinds of URLs, from permalinks and category archives to attachment pages and old ?p= links. We map them all, carry over titles and meta descriptions, and set up redirects so rankings and inbound links are protected.
Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, WPForms and similar plugins are rebuilt as native forms, with their connections to email, Mailchimp, Salesforce or payment tools reconnected and tested.
Page builders often produce markup that is hard for screen readers. We rebuild to WCAG 2.2 AA standards and test with real assistive technology.
Your editors learn the new admin before launch. Most teams find it simpler than the WordPress dashboard they are used to.
We handle the DNS switch, watch for broken links and search errors after launch, and stay available for questions.
No more mystery logins. We document every account and, where it fits, set them up in your organization’s name.
How it works
See how this fits our overall approach on our website migration page.
We list every plugin and what it actually does, then review your content, forms, integrations and analytics.
Many plugins can be replaced by a few purpose-built features. Others are no longer needed at all.
We design around your audiences and build the features your team uses directly into the site.
Posts, pages and media move across without the shortcodes and builder clutter.
Every form and connection is recreated and tested before launch.
Old URLs point to new ones, and metadata and structure are carried over.
Staff learn the new tools, we switch the domain over and we monitor the site after launch.
After years on WordPress, most sites have pages, plugins and settings no one needs anymore.
Rather than rebuilding all of it somewhere else, we keep what works, retire what does not and give your team a site that is easier to live with.
Side by side
Both approaches serve a purpose. The right choice depends on how much flexibility, ownership and customization your organization needs.
WordPress migrations we have done
“I also really appreciate that I didn't have to worry about it, that you had it covered. That was exactly what we wanted.”Read the full case study →
Questions
Not if the move is planned carefully. We map every important URL, set up redirects, carry over titles and meta descriptions, and monitor search performance after launch.
Yes. Posts, categories, images and authors can all be migrated, and old post URLs redirect to their new locations.
No. The features you rely on, such as forms, SEO settings and galleries, are built into the new site, so there is no plugin list to keep updated.
Moving from a different platform?
Start with a conversation
Tell us what your WordPress site does today and what frustrates your team. We will give you an honest view of whether to stay, clean it up or move, and what each option involves.
Talk About Your Website