WordPress to Astro Migration Service
Rebuild a legacy WordPress website into a faster Astro site while preserving important content, URLs, SEO metadata and required functionality.
Best when WordPress is mainly powering marketing and content, but plugin maintenance, performance, or security surface is becoming hard to justify.
Why teams move WordPress sites
The right reason to migrate is not the platform name. It is the point where the current setup starts limiting publishing, performance, structure, integrations, or long-term maintainability.
WordPress sites often collect themes, builders, plugins, and legacy code that increase browser work and maintenance overhead.
Updates, plugin conflicts, backups, permissions, and hardening can become a recurring cost for a site that mainly needs reliable publishing.
Posts, categories, tags, media, SEO plugin metadata, and custom fields need careful mapping before the old site is replaced.
Outcomes
- Performance-focused delivery: Static and content-heavy pages can stay lightweight, with interactive code loaded only where it is needed.
- More technical control: Gain direct control over markup, routing, redirects, structured data, tracking, and frontend behavior.
- Reusable architecture: Build layouts and sections as reusable Astro components instead of duplicating template-bound page structures.
- More predictable ownership cost: A controlled Astro build can reduce reliance on platform plans, paid apps, builder constraints, and recurring add-ons as the site grows.
What the Astro rebuild changes
Astro gives the rebuild more control over performance, frontend delivery, reusable architecture, content structure, and long-term operating cost.
Performance-focused delivery
Static and content-heavy pages can stay lightweight, with interactive code loaded only where it is needed.
More technical control
Gain direct control over markup, routing, redirects, structured data, tracking, and frontend behavior.
Reusable architecture
Build layouts and sections as reusable Astro components instead of duplicating template-bound page structures.
More predictable ownership cost
A controlled Astro build can reduce reliance on platform plans, paid apps, builder constraints, and recurring add-ons as the site grows.
A rebuild scoped around
WordPress to Astro migration process
A controlled migration moves through review, architecture, rebuild, and launch rather than jumping straight into page production.
Audit
Review the current WordPress site, layouts, content, CMS collections, forms, integrations, URLs, SEO signals, and migration risks.
Inventory
Build a structured inventory of pages, media, blog posts, CMS entries, metadata, redirects, tracking, and functionality that must be preserved.
Architect
Define the new Astro page structure, URL mapping, redirects, content model, CMS approach, reusable components, and feature replacements.
Rebuild
Rebuild layouts and components in Astro, migrate content and media, reconnect forms and integrations, and implement the new content structure.
Validate
Compare the new site against the WordPress site, test redirects, metadata, internal links, forms, analytics, responsive layouts, and content parity.
Launch
Deploy the site, verify indexing and tracking, monitor redirects and errors, and resolve post-launch migration issues.
What gets migrated
The migration scope is planned before implementation so content, URLs, metadata, forms, tracking, and CMS decisions are handled deliberately.
Content & media
- Pages and landing pages
- Posts, categories, and tags
- Authors and media library
- Menus and reusable blocks
SEO & URLs
- Titles and descriptions
- Canonicals and schema
- Redirect mapping
- Sitemap and internal links
Functionality
- Forms and lead flows
- Analytics and conversion events
- Search and selected plugin behavior
- Required integrations
CMS & publishing
- Astro content collections
- Storyblok or another headless CMS
- Content models and reusable sections
- Editor workflows and publishing permissions
The exact migration scope is confirmed against the WordPress inventory, content model, URL map, integrations, and launch plan.
WordPress to Astro migration pricing
Pricing depends on unique templates, CMS structure, content volume, page-builder complexity, plugin replacement, SEO risk, redirects and redesign scope.
Starter Migration
Focused small migration
Focused small migration for a simple marketing site or landing page.
Project Investment
€500
- Simple marketing sites
- Landing pages and small brochure sites
- Basic content and URL migration
- Launch setup and QA
Standard Migration
Business website migration
A business website migration with core pages, structure, and launch setup.
Project Investment
€1,000
- Business websites with core pages
- Structure and content migration
- Basic redirect planning
- Launch QA and tracking checks
Advanced Migration
Larger migration with CMS or SEO work
Larger migration with CMS, SEO redirects, content cleanup, or multiple templates.
Project Investment
€2,000+
- CMS content migration
- SEO redirect planning
- Content cleanup and parity
- Multiple templates and launch QA
Complex Migration
High-risk or content-heavy migration
High-risk or content-heavy migration with multilingual, CMS, integrations, redirects, or large URL sets.
Project Investment
€3,500+
- 100+ URLs and large URL sets
- Multilingual sites and content-heavy blogs
- CMS-heavy sites and custom integrations
- SEO redirect mapping and tracking preservation
Final scope is shaped by unique templates, URL and content volume, CMS complexity, integrations, multilingual requirements, and SEO or redirect risk.
Migration risks to plan around
Migration risk usually comes from missed URLs, incomplete content mapping, broken forms, tracking gaps, or rushed launch checks.
SEO & URL risks
- Unmapped WordPress URLs can create avoidable 404s and ranking disruption.
- Metadata, canonicals, robots rules, schema, and sitemap output need parity checks.
Content & CMS risks
- Custom fields, blog content, media, authors, and reusable blocks need deliberate mapping.
- The new content model should be agreed before plugin-dependent content is rebuilt.
Forms, analytics & integrations
- Forms, tracking events, tags, pixels, search, and integrations must be tested after cutover.
- Launch QA should compare responsive behavior, content parity, redirects, and conversion paths.
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