WordPress Migration

Move the site without losing a day.

Host to host, platform to platform, staging to live. Over a thousand sites migrated at under two minutes of downtime each.

WordPress migration: host moves, DNS cutover, SSL and mail records

Who needs a WordPress migration

You need to move a website and cannot afford for it to go offline, lose content, or come back with broken links and missing images. Or you are moving off another platform entirely and no importer handles your content properly. A WordPress migration touches more than files and a database. The WordPress migration documentation covers the basics, but DNS and mail records are where real moves go wrong.

What a WordPress migration includes

Problems this solves

WordPress migration questions

I have migrated over a thousand client sites with under two minutes of downtime each. The exact figure depends on DNS and the size of the database, but planned properly it is minutes rather than hours.

Yes. When no existing importer could do it safely, I wrote a custom plugin that migrated 156 pages off Joomla, batching requests through AJAX so shared hosting never timed out mid-migration.

That is part of the plan rather than an afterthought. Moving a domain’s nameservers moves the mail records too, so those have to be carried across deliberately.

Need to move a site?

Tell me where the site is now and where it needs to go.