You are here because your WordPress site has started to feel like a tax. Maybe a plugin updated and something broke. Maybe your developer raised their rate again. Maybe you just looked at your hosting bill and the page-builder licence and the SEO plugin licence and the backup plugin licence and asked what any of it was for.

This guide walks through the actual decision. When migration makes sense, what carries across, what happens to your rankings, and what life looks like once it is done.

When it is the right call

Migration is the right call when your site is mostly content (pages, services, a blog, a contact form), the maintenance time is costing you more than the site earns you in convenience, and you have stopped logging into wp-admin for anything other than putting out fires.

It is not the right call if you run a membership community, a 5,000-product store, or anything where logged-in users do real work inside the site. WordPress, for all its faults, is mature at that. We will tell you that on the discovery call.

What actually carries across

Everything that matters to your customers and to Google. The pages. The blog posts. The images. The copy you spent hours writing. The titles and meta descriptions that took years to rank. The URLs (every single one, identical or 301-redirected). The contact form, rebuilt and tested before launch. The favicon. The brand colours.

What does not carry across is the stuff that was making your life worse: the WordPress admin panel, the plugin licences, the page-builder lock-in, the PHP version you have to keep tracking, the security plugin that emailed you every morning.

What happens to your search rankings

Up, in most of our migrations. Google has been weighting page speed in rankings for over a decade and made it explicit with Core Web Vitals. A static site loads in well under a second; a typical WordPress site loads in two to four. Google notices.

The risk is in the handover, not the destination. If a migration is done badly (URLs change without redirects, titles get rewritten, the sitemap disappears) you can lose ground. If it is done properly, traffic dips for a week and then climbs.

We wrote up the actual checklist we use for anyone doing this themselves.

How long it takes

For a typical small-business site, 24 to 72 hours of clock time, with about 20 to 30 minutes of work from you total. The full breakdown is here but the short version is: you install our plugin, we rebuild your site, you preview it, we cut your domain over. You never have to be on a call.

What it looks like once it is done

You never log into wp-admin again because there is no wp-admin. You do not get security alerts because there is nothing to secure beyond an HTML file on a CDN. The contact form delivers because we route it through something we watch.

When you want to change copy or add a page, you email us. We make the change within a working day and reply with a link to the live site. You stop budgeting time for “the website”.

The whole thing costs you $19 a month if we manage it, or $900 once if you want to own it outright. See the pricing or request a free preview of what your site looks like rebuilt. We do not invoice you until you have seen it.