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How it goes

A process built for safety.

Every step protects what already works and de-risks what changes. Here's why teams leave WordPress, what the engagement includes, and the seven phases we run from audit to post-launch.

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The drag

Why teams leave
WordPress

It got you online — now it's the tax you pay every week in speed, security, and your team's time.

01

Plugin sprawl

Forms, caching, SEO, security, builders — every plugin is another conflict waiting to break.

02

Patch fatigue

A public PHP surface and dozens of dependencies mean a never-ending update cycle.

03

Slow pages

Render-blocking plugins and heavy themes drag Core Web Vitals — and conversions — down.

04

Editor drift

Page builders let anyone reshape layouts. Branding wanders; every page becomes a one-off.

05

Won't scale

Content and design are fused. Reusing content across channels means copy-paste, not a system.

06

It compounds →

None of it is one big failure. It's a slow drag, paid weekly. We stop the meter.

Scope

What the migration includes

One engagement, end to end. ↓ drag / scroll →

01

Content audit

Inventory every page, post, and asset. Decide what moves, merges, or retires.

02

URL + redirect map

1:1 old→new mapping with 301s, so link equity carries over.

03

Design rebuild

Keep your look or modernize it as a clean component system.

04

CMS modeling

Content types and relationships designed around how your team works.

05

Page-block system

Reusable branded sections editors compose like blocks.

06

SEO metadata

Titles, canonicals, sitemaps, structured data carried across.

07

Analytics + forms

GA4, events, and forms rewired and verified end to end.

08

QA + launch

Cross-device QA, a launch runbook, and post-launch monitoring.

The phases

Seven phases, zero surprises

Every step protects what works and de-risks what changes. ↓ keep scrolling

01 / 07

Audit

Map content, traffic, and rankings. Find what to protect and what to improve.

02 / 07

Architecture

Choose the CMS, design content models, plan the URL + redirect strategy.

03 / 07

Content migration

Move and restructure content into clean models — scripted, not retyped.

04 / 07

Frontend build

Build the Next.js frontend as a branded component system wired to the CMS.

05 / 07

QA

Cross-device testing, redirect checks, performance budgets, accessibility passes.

06 / 07

Launch

Cut over with a runbook, monitored DNS, and a verified redirect map on day one.

07 / 07

Post-launch support

Watch rankings and vitals, fix the long tail, hand off clean docs.

Questions

The things teams
ask first

That's exactly what the process protects against — a full URL map with 301 redirects, faithful metadata and structured-data migration, and ranking monitoring through launch. A stable transition, not a gamble.

A focused marketing-site migration runs a few weeks; larger engagements run longer and roll out in phases. After the audit, you get a firm timeline — not a guess.

Yes, more comfortably — a clean headless CMS with a real preview of the live page, composing from branded, reusable components. No code, no way to break the design.

Most plugin jobs become built-in: SEO and caching handled by the framework, forms routed through dedicated services, security improved by removing the public PHP surface. Fewer moving parts.

Yes — localization is modeled at the content level with proper locale routing, hreflang, and translation workflows editors manage directly.

Yes — forms, site search, analytics, and tools like your CRM or marketing automation are re-implemented and verified, so nothing your team relies on goes dark at launch.

Let's talk

Start with the audit.

It ends with a roadmap: scope, recommended CMS, redirect strategy, and a realistic timeline.

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