Moving off WordPress

Moving off WordPress takes about ten minutes of your time.

You fill in a ten-minute intake and tell us where your current site is. We rebuild it on our engine, map every old address to its new one, and move your domain when you say go. It is live in seven business days from the point we have your content. You do not touch a plugin, a server or a DNS record — and your existing site stays up the whole time.

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Who does what

Your part, in full

Fill in the intake. Ten minutes, and it is the same form everyone else fills in.
Tell us where your current site is, and what on it is wrong, stale or was never true.
Say go, and either approve the domain change at your registrar or hand us the login.

That is the whole list. There is not a second page of it.

Our part

Read your current site page by page and write down what is actually on it.
Rebuild it on our engine — your words, your photos, a design that is yours.
Map every old address to its new one, so nothing that points at you breaks.
Move the domain, carry your mail records across, and get the certificate issued.
Watch it after launch, and keep running it afterwards.

The honest version

We don't import WordPress. We rebuild.

There is no plugin-by-plugin conversion, and we are not going to pretend there is. A person reads your site and builds it again on our engine.

That is slower than a one-click importer and it is the reason the move is worth making: none of the things that made the old site slow, fragile or impossible to change come across with it. Your words and your photos do.

What happens to my domain?

It stays yours. Your domain is registered in your name at your registrar, and we never take ownership of it — not during the move, not afterwards.

Moving a website means changing where the domain points, not who owns it. Usually that is a nameserver change at your registrar. You can approve it yourself, or hand us the login and we will make it. If you ever leave, you point it somewhere else, the same way you pointed it at us.

We check who your registrar actually is before we plan anything. It is very often not who people think it is — registrations move between companies, and the login you remember may not be the one that matters.

What happens to my email?

Nothing — and this is the part most website moves get wrong, so it is worth being specific about.

Your email usually rides on the same domain as your website, on a different set of records. Move the domain carelessly and those records go with it. The mail does not bounce loudly; it just stops, and it is normally a customer who notices before you do.

So we inventory your mail records before anything moves, carry them across deliberately rather than letting an import guess, and confirm mail is still flowing after the switch. Where a setup is not visible from the outside, we ask you instead of assuming.

Ten minutes of your time. Seven business days to live.

What happens to my links and my Google rankings?

Every address on your old site gets mapped to its address on the new one. Four things make that work, and all four are ordinary technical hygiene rather than anything clever:

Permanent redirects. Old addresses are sent to new ones with a 301 — the kind that tells a search engine the page moved rather than vanished, and passes on what the old address had earned.
The redirect table lives in your dashboard. Not in a file only we can reach. When somebody finds a printed flyer pointing at a page nobody remembered, it gets added that day.
A fresh sitemap on every build. Generated from the site itself, so it cannot describe pages that no longer exist.
Pages rendered on the server. Your content is in the HTML when it arrives, not assembled afterwards by JavaScript that a crawler may or may not run.

Nobody can promise you rankings, and anyone who does is selling you something. What can be promised is that the technical reasons a move costs you rankings are handled: the links resolve, the sitemap is current, the pages are readable the moment they load.

What happens to my content and my photos?

Your words come across. We read the site and keep what is true. Anything we cannot verify we ask you about, and if we cannot verify it we leave it out rather than repeat it.
Send your original photos if you have them. We will pull what is on the current site if you do not, but a picture that has been through a website once is smaller and softer than the one off the camera.
Blog posts come across. If there are a lot of them, say so in the intake — that is a scope conversation, not a technical obstacle.
Forms get rebuilt. And the submissions land in your dashboard, where you can see where each one came from, rather than only in an inbox.

How long it takes

You fill in the intake

Ten minutes. This is the only part with a deadline, and the deadline is yours.

We read your current site

Every page, every claim, every photo worth keeping. We come back with anything that contradicts itself — old prices, a phone number that changed, a service you stopped offering.

We build it

Live in seven business days from the point we have your content — fourteen for a store. Your old site stays up and untouched the entire time.

You look at it on a real link

On a working web address, on your phone, before anything about your domain changes. Changes at this stage are just changes.

You say go

The domain moves when you say so, not when we are ready. How fast it takes effect depends on the TTL your existing DNS records were set to — that is a number your current host chose, and we read it before we start.

What you give up

Three real ones. If any of them is a dealbreaker, it is better for both of us that you know now.

You cannot install plugins

The engine is ours and it is one system. That is precisely why it stays fast and does not break — and it is a real constraint. If your business depends on one specific WordPress plugin, say so in the intake before you pay, and we will tell you honestly whether we can do that thing.

You do not host the code

Your domain, your content and your data are yours and always leave with you. The engine that runs them is ours, and the monthly is what runs it. If you stop paying, the site stops — we would rather write that here than let you find it out later.

You are not the one editing at midnight

You ask; we do it. Most people find that is the entire point. If you genuinely enjoy being hands-on inside a page builder, you will miss it, and that is a fair reason to stay where you are.

Every old address keeps working.

Questions people ask before they move

How long does it take to move off WordPress?

Seven business days from the point we have your content, or fourteen for a store. The part that takes your time is a ten-minute intake. Everything after that is ours, and your existing site stays up and unchanged until you say go.

Will my website go down during the move?

No. We build the new site on its own web address first, and your WordPress site keeps serving the whole time. The switch happens when you say so, and it is a change to where your domain points rather than a moment where nothing exists.

Do I keep my domain name?

Yes. It is registered in your name at your registrar and we never take ownership of it. Moving a website changes where a domain points, not who owns it. If you ever leave, you point it somewhere else — exactly the way you pointed it at us.

What happens to my email when my website moves?

Nothing, because we carry your mail records across deliberately and check that mail still flows after the switch. This is the single most common way a site move goes wrong: email usually rides on the same domain as the website, on different records, and a careless change drops them quietly.

Will my old links and Google rankings survive?

Every address on your old site is mapped to its new one with a 301 — the permanent kind, which tells search engines the page moved rather than vanished. A fresh sitemap is generated on every build, and the redirect table lives in your dashboard so a link nobody knew about can be added later. Nobody can promise rankings; the technical reasons a move costs them are handled.

Do you import my WordPress site automatically?

No, and that is on purpose. There is no plugin-by-plugin conversion. A person reads your site and rebuilds it on our engine, which is why none of the things that made the old one slow or fragile come across with it. Your words and your photos do.

What if I have hundreds of blog posts?

Tell us in the intake. Posts come across, and a large archive is a scope conversation rather than a technical problem — we would rather have it before you pay than after.

Ten minutes to start.

Tell us where your site is now. We will tell you honestly what moving it involves, including if the answer is that you should stay put.

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