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Move your site to WordPress without losing ground

We move sites off Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, and aging custom builds onto WordPress, with your content carried over intact and your search equity mapped, not gambled. You end up owning the files, the content, and the choice of who works on them.

On a site builder you are a tenant

Builders are genuinely good on day one. Drag, drop, done, and the site is live by Friday. The walls show up later: SEO settings you cannot reach, features that do not exist, a monthly bill that keeps climbing, and the quiet catch that you cannot really take the site with you when you go.

WordPress is the opposite bargain. It is open-source software running more than forty percent of the web, and you own the files, the content, and the decision about who hosts it and who works on it. Converted properly, you keep your pages, your content, and your rankings. You lose only the ceilings.

Most owners do not call us the week they get frustrated. They call after a year of workarounds, when the feature they need does not exist, or when the platform raises its price again. Conversion is the moment you stop paying rent on your own website.

What a conversion includes

Every move covers the same ground, whatever platform you are leaving behind.

Complete content migration

Every page, post, image, and form makes the trip. We inventory the old site first, so nothing turns up missing three weeks after launch.

Design rebuilt, not traced

Your brand carried into a clean custom build. Faithful to the current look if you love it, improved if you do not, and built right either way.

Rankings carried across

URLs preserved where they are earning, 301 redirects mapped where structure changes, titles and content signals carried across. Your search equity arrives with the rest of the site.

Any platform, one process

Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, GoDaddy's builder, an aging custom site, or another CMS. If it is a website we can move it, and we flag what cannot survive first.

Editor training and documentation

A back end your team can actually use, training on the day-to-day edits, and written documentation so the knowledge does not live in one person's head.

A better foundation

Conversion is the cheapest moment to fix everything else. Speed, security, and accessibility get built in while the walls are open and the work is already underway.

What carries over, and what does not

The honest version is that most of a site moves cleanly, some of it moves with changes, and a small amount does not move at all. We sort every item into one of those buckets during the audit, before a line of the new site gets built, so the surprises happen on a call instead of on launch day.

See how a project runs →
  • Carries over intact: pages, posts, images, PDFs, your whole blog archive, page titles and meta descriptions, and the URLs that are already earning traffic.
  • Carries over rebuilt: forms, galleries, booking flows, and store products get recreated on WordPress equivalents rather than copied, because builder widgets have nothing to import into.
  • Changes on purpose: page structure, where the old navigation was working against you, with a 301 redirect mapped from every retired URL to its closest replacement.
  • Does not survive: platform-only features locked to your old builder, and any third-party app with no WordPress counterpart. We name those in the audit and propose a replacement before you commit.

How it runs

  1. Inventory the old site

    We crawl what you have and list every page, URL, form, image, and integration on it. That inventory is the checklist we launch against, so nothing quietly goes missing.

  2. Decide what moves and how

    Each item gets sorted: copied as is, rebuilt on a WordPress equivalent, or retired with a redirect. You see that list, and the URL map, before anything is built.

  3. Build in parallel

    The new site goes up on a staging server while your current one keeps running and keeps earning. No downtime, no half-finished pages sitting in public.

  4. Move the content and check it

    Content transfers page by page and gets checked against the inventory with you. Nothing goes live until every line on that list is accounted for.

  5. Cutover and the weeks after

    We switch the site over, put the redirects live, resubmit the sitemap, and watch Search Console through the recrawl to catch anything the move surfaced.

Common questions

Make it truly yours

Bring what you have already built onto a foundation you own. Book a strategy call and we will walk through your current site, tell you honestly whether a move is worth it, and show you what the migration would actually involve.