Move off a plugin-heavy WordPress install onto a fast, modern frontend with a visual CMS your marketing team can still run, with content, SEO equity, and integrations intact.
Why migrate
Astro ships almost no JavaScript by default. Pages that were fighting for a passing Core Web Vitals score tend to pass comfortably.
No plugin updates, no plugin conflicts, no plugin-shaped security holes. The functionality you need is written once, deliberately.
Content lives in typed collections rather than a soup of post meta and shortcodes, so it can be reused across pages and channels.
A visual CMS layer means marketing keeps editing pages without touching code or waiting on a developer.
Static output on a CDN removes PHP hosting, caching plugins, and the whole class of problems that come with them.
Components, TypeScript, and Git-based workflows instead of theme files and the WordPress loop.
Honest assessment
Astro is the right call for most content-driven marketing sites. It is the wrong call often enough that it's worth saying so plainly.
It depends on what WordPress is actually doing for you. In most migrations it gets decommissioned entirely once content has moved and redirects are live.
Sometimes it's worth keeping as a headless content source, particularly where editorial teams are deeply invested in the admin interface.
Visual CMS
The objection to leaving WordPress is almost never technical. It's that someone in marketing will lose the ability to change a headline without filing a ticket. That doesn't have to happen.
Content editors work in a visual interface with live preview, not a JSON blob or a YAML file in a repo.
Editors compose pages from approved components, so the design system can't be broken by a well-meaning edit.
Everything the visual editor writes is typed, validated content that other pages and channels can reuse.
Architecture
Integrations (CRM, analytics, forms, search) attach at the build or edge layer rather than as plugins inside the CMS.
Process
Every template, plugin, custom field, integration, and redirect on the current WordPress install gets catalogued before anything moves.
We design the Astro content collections and CMS schema around how your team publishes, not around how WordPress stored it.
Migrate as-is, refresh selectively, or redesign, mapped to a component system built for the new stack.
Astro build, component library, CMS wiring, and scripted content migration with a reconciliation pass.
Redirect testing, Core Web Vitals, accessibility audit, analytics parity, and a full content diff against the old site.
Staged DNS cutover, then Search Console, crawl errors, and vitals watched closely for the first weeks.
Content migration
Posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, ACF fields, and media are exported and mapped field by field to the new content model.
Shortcodes, page-builder markup, and inline styles are converted into clean structured content and real components.
The uploads directory is migrated, re-optimised, and re-referenced, including the variants nobody remembers generating.
An automated diff compares every source URL against its destination so nothing is quietly lost in transit.
SEO & redirects
Every indexed URL is pulled from Search Console, analytics, the sitemap, and a crawl, not just the ones in the CMS.
A one-to-one redirect map with 301s, built and tested against the live inventory before launch.
Titles, descriptions, canonicals, Open Graph, and structured data carried across and diffed page by page.
Sitemaps, robots, and internal linking rebuilt, then submitted and monitored through Search Console after cutover.
Rankings, crawl errors, redirect hits, and vitals monitored for the first weeks, with fixes shipped fast.
Design options
Keep the current design, move the platform. Lowest risk and the fastest route to a faster site.
Talk through this optionRebuild on a proper component system and modernise typography, spacing, and key templates along the way.
Talk through this optionNew IA, new visual system, new site, with the migration handled underneath it as one project.
Talk through this optionThe details
Relevant work
Thinking about moving off WordPress but unsure where to go? Compare Framer, Astro, and headless CMS options, and see when staying put is the better call.
Read the guideMove off WordPress onto Framer and publish without a developer in the loop, for marketing sites where headless would be unnecessary complexity.
View migration pathAI builders got your site live fast. We turn it into something that ranks, converts, holds up to scrutiny, and your team can maintain.
View migration pathFAQs
Not if the redirect map, metadata, and internal linking are handled properly, which is most of what this project actually is. Expect short-term fluctuation and a return to baseline or better within weeks.
Yes. A visual CMS layer sits on top of Astro so editors compose pages from approved components with live preview. That capability is a requirement of the build, not an upsell.
Each one gets assessed during discovery: replaced with a first-class integration, rebuilt as a component, or dropped because it was doing nothing. You'll get that list before the project starts.
A small marketing site is six to eight weeks. Several hundred pages with a redesign and complex integrations is typically twelve to twenty.
No, though it helps to have someone who can grant access to DNS, hosting, analytics, and the CRM. We handle the build and the cutover.
Usually dramatically less. Static output on a CDN removes managed PHP hosting, caching layers, and most plugin licences.
