Anything in, WordPress out.
We have migrated more than 5,000 sites to WordPress in twelve years. Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow, Drupal, Joomla, raw HTML, and old WordPress installs that have not been touched since PHP 7. Every project ships with a redirect map, schema preserved, sitemap regenerated, and a Search Console resubmission inside 48 hours of cutover. SEO equity carries across or we keep working until it does. Fixed quotes from $1,500.
Eight common sources. Same approach for each.
Closed editor, slow load times on mobile, no real ownership of the build.
Locked styling, expensive at scale, limited SEO control beyond what they expose.
High monthly cost for content-heavy sites that do not need full e-commerce. Move to WordPress + WooCommerce if commerce stays, content-only if it does not.
Beautiful but content team friction, plan limits on CMS items, expensive at editor seat count.
Maintenance overhead, smaller talent pool, costly upgrades between major versions.
Aging plugin ecosystem, increasingly hard to staff for, fewer modern theme options.
Updates require a developer for every change. Marketing team needs a CMS.
Stuck on PHP 7, deprecated themes, page builders no longer maintained. Move forward without losing content.
Four phases. No surprises.
We crawl the source site, inventory every URL, every asset, every form, every redirect already in place. Output is a migration map you sign off before any work happens. Two business days.
New WordPress site stood up on the hosting plan we recommend for your traffic shape. Theme picked or custom-built to match the brand. Content imported with structure preserved (headings, schema, image alt text, anchor links).
Every old URL maps to a new one or a documented 410. Schema markup migrated. Internal links rewritten. Sitemap regenerated. Search Console reverification scheduled.
DNS swap at a low-traffic window we agree on. We sit on the launch for 48 hours to catch anything that surfaces. IndexNow ping to Bing and Yandex. Search Console resubmission. Done.
Nine deliverables, all in the fixed quote.
Add-ons exist (redesign, custom plugin development, post-launch retainer) and they are quoted separately. The default migration scope below covers what most teams actually need.
- Full content import with structure preserved (headings, anchors, image alt text)
- Every URL mapped to a redirect or a documented 410
- Schema markup migrated (Article, Product, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, Organization)
- Internal links rewritten to the new URL set
- Sitemap regenerated and resubmitted to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster
- IndexNow protocol pings on launch so crawlers see the changes within hours
- Hosting plan recommendation backed by HostList data, not affiliate commissions
- Performance configured for Core Web Vitals on launch, not promised for later
- Forty-eight hour post-launch watch window with the original team available
Four common failures. None of them are accidents.
Most botched migrations come from missing redirects. We map every URL, including pagination, tag archives, and old WordPress slugs.
Article, Product, and FAQPage schemas are mapped one-to-one. Star ratings and breadcrumbs survive the move.
Existing form submissions are exported, new forms are wired to the same destinations (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Slack, Resend, plain email).
Originals are pulled, not the served WebP variants. We re-encode at the right sizes in WordPress instead of inheriting compressed versions.
Migration questions, answered.
How long does a typical migration take?
A simple WordPress to WordPress move takes 5 to 10 business days. Wix, Squarespace, or Webflow to WordPress is 2 to 4 weeks depending on page count, custom forms, and integrations. Shopify to WordPress with WooCommerce is 3 to 6 weeks if commerce is staying, 1 to 2 weeks if it is content-only.
Will my Google rankings survive the move?
Yes, if redirects are done right. The HostList migration playbook maps every URL on the source site to its WordPress counterpart, preserves headings and schema, and pings Search Console and IndexNow on launch. Sites we have migrated typically recover rankings inside two to four weeks, often improving as Core Web Vitals lift.
What happens to my content during the migration?
Content is pulled from the source platform via the cleanest method available (REST API where exposed, CSV export where not, structured HTML scrape as last resort). Each post is reviewed against the source before we mark it imported. Image alt text, internal links, anchor links, and embedded media all carry across.
Do you handle the hosting move too?
Yes, this is the unfair advantage. We rank 28,000+ hosts at hostlist.io and use the same data internally to pick the right plan for your traffic shape. We never push you toward a host that pays us a commission, because no host pays us a commission.
What about my existing email, DNS, and CDN?
Email DNS stays untouched unless you ask us to move it. CDN can be carried over or replaced with Cloudflare on launch. We provide a clear pre-cutover and post-cutover DNS plan so nothing routes wrong during the window.
Can you migrate a site without changing how it looks?
Yes. The default project is a like-for-like rebuild in WordPress with the same design and brand. If you want a redesign at the same time, that gets quoted as a separate scope under the Website Development service.
Send the URL. We will quote.
Share the source URL and what you need carried across. We send a scope and a fixed quote inside two business days, with the hosting plan we recommend and a launch window.