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WordPress Migration Agency in NYC

Your WordPress Site Burns $4,200/Year Before A New York Buyer Clicks

200+
Migrations Completed
WordPress → modern stack
0
SEO Rankings Lost
Full redirect mapping
97+
Lighthouse Score
Post-migration avg
3.2×
Faster Load Times
vs. original WordPress
What WordPress Migration Actually Fixes — And What It Won't

Your WordPress site ships every page with 1.2 MB of plugin JavaScript before your headline even renders. A migration pulls your content into a headless CMS—Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi—and rebuilds your frontend in Next.js with server-side rendering and static generation. Your URLs get mapped to 301 redirects so Google never loses your rankings. Your team gets a content interface that doesn't fight them. Your hosting bill drops from $300/month to $40. But migration won't fix unclear messaging or a broken funnel—it fixes the architecture that's bleeding speed, security patches, and developer hours. At Social Animal, your NYC business gets a four-week timeline, a redirect audit report, and a site that loads in under 800 ms.

Onde os projetos falham

Your WordPress site takes 4+ seconds to load and you're losing NYC customers to faster competitors Every second of delay costs 7% in conversions — that's real revenue walking out the door.
Plugin conflicts and PHP updates break your site every month Unplanned downtime during business hours means lost sales and a credibility hit with New York clients.
You're paying $300+/month for managed WordPress hosting that still feels slow Modern Jamstack deployments on Vercel or Cloudflare cost a fraction of that and outperform it by 3–5×.
Your dev team burns 40% of their time on WordPress security patches Miss one, and your NYC business becomes the next data breach headline.
Your content editors fight with the WordPress block editor every day Those editorial bottlenecks slow your publishing cadence and kill your content marketing ROI.
You want to scale, but WordPress's monolithic architecture can't handle traffic spikes A viral moment or PR push crashes your site exactly when you need it most.

Conformidade

Full SEO Preservation

We map every URL, meta tag, structured data element, and internal link before touching a single file. Your Google rankings transfer intact — no traffic dips, no lost authority.

Zero-Downtime Cutover

We run the old and new sites in parallel, verify everything, then flip DNS in seconds. Your NYC customers never hit a broken page or a maintenance screen.

Content Model Migration

Posts, pages, custom fields, taxonomies, WooCommerce products — everything moves to your new CMS as clean, structured data. No copy-pasting, no data loss.

Security Hardening

No more PHP exploits. No more plugin vulnerabilities. A static-first architecture with edge caching eliminates entire attack vectors that WordPress is notorious for.

Performance Optimization

Image optimization, code splitting, edge delivery, and pre-rendering push your Lighthouse scores above 95. Your NYC visitors get sub-second page loads.

Editor Training & Handoff

Your content team gets hands-on training with the new CMS, custom documentation, and 30 days of post-launch support. They'll work faster than they ever did in WordPress.

O que construímos

Loads in 4+ seconds and Google's Core Web Vitals filter your pages out of mobile rankings

Ships in under 800 ms with server-rendered Next.js and zero plugin bloat

Plugin conflicts break checkout flows and crash your site during East Coast business hours

Eliminates plugin dependency chains so your stack stays stable through deploy cycles

Costs $300+/month for managed hosting that still chokes under traffic spikes

Drops hosting costs 70% on Vercel or Cloudflare with autoscaling baked in

Burns 40% of your dev team's time on security patches instead of revenue features

Frees your devs from patch treadmills so they build features that move revenue

Fights your editors with a block interface that slows publishing cadence to a crawl

Gives editors a headless CMS built around your team's actual workflow—not WordPress's

Crashes when your PR moment hits because WordPress can't scale past monolithic PHP

Handles 10× traffic surges without a single 503 because your frontend decouples from your data layer

Nosso processo

01

Discovery & Audit

We crawl your entire WordPress site and document every URL, plugin, integration, and custom function. You get a migration scope document and risk assessment within 5 business days.
Week 1
02

Architecture & Content Modeling

We design your new tech stack, define the CMS content model, and build your redirect map. You approve the architecture before we write a single line of code.
Week 2
03

Build & Migrate

Frontend development, content migration, and integration work run in parallel. You see progress in a staging environment updated daily.
Weeks 3–5
04

QA & SEO Verification

We do a page-by-page comparison of old versus new. Every redirect tested, every meta tag verified, every form submission confirmed. Lighthouse audits on every template.
Week 6
05

Launch & Monitor

DNS cutover happens during off-peak hours with zero downtime. We monitor Search Console, analytics, and uptime for 30 days post-launch to catch anything the crawlers surface.
Week 7+
Next.jsSanityContentfulVercelSupabaseCloudflare

Perguntas frequentes

How long does a WordPress migration take?

Most migrations wrap up in 5–7 weeks. Simple brochure sites can finish in 3 weeks. Large WooCommerce stores or sites with 1,000+ pages and complex custom plugins typically take 8–10 weeks. We give you a firm timeline during discovery and stick to it.

Will I lose my Google rankings during the migration?

No. We build a complete redirect map covering every URL on your current WordPress site, then verify meta tags, structured data, canonical URLs, and internal links page by page. After launch, we monitor Search Console daily for 30 days and fix any indexing issues immediately.

What platform do you migrate WordPress sites to?

Most NYC clients move to Next.js with a headless CMS — Sanity or Contentful — deployed on Vercel. For e-commerce, we migrate WooCommerce stores to Shopify or Medusa. The right stack depends on your content workflow, team size, and performance needs.

Can you migrate my WooCommerce store?

Yes. We migrate product catalogs, customer accounts, order history, and subscription data to headless commerce platforms. Checkout flows, inventory management, and payment processing get rebuilt with modern APIs that are faster and more reliable than WooCommerce's PHP-based architecture.

How much does WordPress migration cost in NYC?

WordPress migrations start at $8,000 for content-focused sites under 200 pages. WooCommerce migrations and sites with complex custom functionality typically run $14,000 to $25,000+. Every project gets a fixed-fee quote after our free discovery audit — no hourly billing surprises.

Do you offer in-person meetings in New York City?

Yes. We're based in New York and available for in-person kickoff meetings, workshops, and presentations. Most day-to-day work happens over Slack and scheduled video calls, but we're always happy to meet face-to-face when the project calls for it.

WordPress Migration from $8,000
Fixed-fee. Full SEO preservation. 30-day post-launch support included.
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