(WordPress migration)
WORDPRESSto Astro, without the plugins.
Your WordPress site, rebuilt on Astro and Sanity: the same content and addresses, none of the plugins, updates and slow pages.
(In short)
WordPress to Astro and Sanity migration
beterdesign migrates WordPress websites to Astro and Sanity, hosted on Cloudflare. Pages, posts, images and forms move across, every old WordPress address is redirected, and the site is rebuilt as fast, static pages with no plugins to update. Reed Ventures, a family-owned developer in Delaware, went from an ageing WordPress site to a new Astro site in 48 hours, with all 34 projects and every revision in. The migration is quoted by the size of the site.
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Plugins and updates
Every feature is a plugin, and every plugin needs updates that nobody wants to touch. On Astro there are no plugins to keep alive: the features are built into the site.
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Slow pages
WordPress sites slow down the way old houses settle: a plugin here, a theme update there. Astro serves plain, static pages from Cloudflare, with nothing loaded that a visitor does not need.
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An editor that breaks the page
Page builders mix content and layout, so a text change can move the design. In Sanity you edit content only, and the layout stays exactly as designed.
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A theme built for someone else
A theme decides the look before the brand does. On Astro the design, type and motion are built for your brand, not removed from someone else’s.
- Pages and posts
- Media library
- Forms
- Menus and footer
- Every URL, redirected
- Titles and descriptions
Reed Ventures
48 hours from an ageing WordPress site to a fast Astro site, with all 34 projects and every revision the family asked for. Changes now go through their studio assistant in Slack.
Read the story ↗
Off WordPress, onto Astro.
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Audit
Day one
We read the current site from the inside: every page, post, image, form and URL, and what already brings visitors from search.
- URL map
- Content inventory
- What ranks
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Move
Content into Sanity in one pass
Pages, posts and images are extracted and loaded into Sanity as clean, structured documents, so 151 posts take no longer than one.
- Pages
- Posts
- Images
- Forms
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Build
Astro, designed to measure
The site is rebuilt in Astro, keeping your design or improving it, and checked at nine screen sizes on every template.
- Astro
- Design
- Nine-size QA
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Launch
Redirects, SEO / AEO, Cloudflare
Old addresses redirect, the sitemap and structured data go live, and the site switches to your domain on Cloudflare.
- 301 redirects
- Schema
- Cloudflare
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Run
Your studio assistant in Slack
We connect your editor and your studio assistant in Slack, and test both on the live site with a real content edit and a real code change before we call it done.
- Sanity
- Slack assistant
- Maintenance
Quoted by size, not by guesswork.
Every migration is quoted by the size of the site: how many pages and posts, how many languages, what has to keep working (forms, booking, a shop) and whether the design stays or changes. Send the address through the form and we reply with a quote within two business days.
- Pages and posts
- Languages
- Forms, booking or a shop
- Keep the design, or redesign it
From the journal.
Questions about WordPress migration
(01)Can I move my WordPress site to Astro without losing SEO?
Yes. Every old WordPress address is mapped to its new page and redirected, titles, descriptions and structured data are set up, and the sitemap goes live with the site, so links and rankings carry over. Reed Ventures moved this way, with every old address pointing to its new page.
(02)What happens to my WordPress plugins?
What they did is built into the new site: contact forms, galleries, SEO tags, redirects. What nobody used is left behind. There are no plugins on Astro, so there is nothing to update.
(03)How long does a WordPress migration take?
Reed Ventures, a 34-project developer site, moved from WordPress to Astro in 48 hours, revisions included. Larger sites take longer; the quote states the time.
(04)Should every WordPress site move?
No. When a WooCommerce shop with a large catalog is the business, staying on WordPress can be the right call, and we will say so. Brand, content and portfolio sites gain the most from the move.