Migrating off WordPress without losing your archive
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Saying 'we're stuck on WordPress' usually means one thing: nobody can face moving the archive. A decade of posts, custom fields, and URL structure feels too fragile to touch. The irony is that staying is the bigger risk — the incumbent platform can change its pricing, its plugins, or its security posture faster than you can maintain it.
Migration is an export, not a rewrite
The content isn't the problem; it's just data. We map posts, pages, media, and redirects into a typed schema, preserve every slug so your ranking and inbound links survive, and keep a per-field audit trail of what moved where.
URLs are the part people fear most, and the part we treat as non-negotiable. Every old path becomes a redirect, every image is re-served from object storage, and the sitemap is regenerated so search engines follow the same map you always had — just pointed at a stack you own.
Photo by Andrew Kliatskyi on Unsplash.
Why the archive matters more than the site
A website is replaceable. The record — what you said, when you said it, and what you promised — isn't. We build migrations around the archive first and the look second, because the archive is the asset your organization actually can't afford to lose.
Every platform promises your content is safe — until it isn't. Why we build on open, self-hostable stacks where the record belongs to you.
The clearest way to see platform risk is to price it. What 'just $29/month' actually costs when the platform owns your content, your data, and your leverage.