Your WordPress Site Costs You £4,000/Month Before Anyone Converts
If you're a London growth team watching plugin conflicts kill mobile conversions, we migrate you to Next.js in 14 days -- zero downtime, full SEO carryover.
We move London businesses from WordPress to modern stacks -- Next.js, headless CMS, edge hosting. Zero downtime. Full SEO preservation.
Your site ships to Vercel's London edge nodes -- every post, image, and URL intact, now loading in 380 milliseconds instead of 4.2 seconds. WordPress migration isn't a file dump; it's a platform swap that kills plugin bloat, PHP version hell, and the security treadmill your team runs every quarter. We map your old URLs to Next.js routes with server-side 301s that transfer link equity. Your content moves to Sanity or Contentful, giving your editors a real-time workspace that doesn't freeze under autosave. The database shrinks by 60–80% because headless CMSs don't carry fifteen years of revision cruft. Your hosting cost drops while your Core Web Vitals jump into the green. What you lose: the plugin conflicts, the 3am security patches, the glacial page loads that filter buyers before they see your product. What you keep: every ranking, every backlink, every piece of content that already works.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Full SEO Audit & URL Mapping
We crawl every URL, meta tag, and internal link before touching a line of code. Your redirect map is built before migration begins.
Zero-Downtime Cutover
We run the new site in parallel and only switch DNS once everything is verified. Your London customers never hit a broken page.
Content Migration Automation
Custom scripts pull every post, page, taxonomy, ACF field, and media asset out of WordPress. Nothing gets left behind.
Security Hardening
No more PHP attack surface. The new stack runs on serverless functions and static assets with automatic HTTPS and DDoS protection baked in.
Performance Benchmarking
We measure Core Web Vitals before and after migration with documented proof. You'll see the improvement in real numbers.
GDPR-Compliant Architecture
Cookie consent, data processing, and privacy controls built to UK and EU GDPR standards from day one -- not bolted on as an afterthought.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Ship static pages that load in under 400ms instead of waiting 4+ seconds for PHP to render
Static generation and incremental revalidation give your UK buyers sub-second page loads that actually convert
Kill plugin conflicts that break your site during UK business hours and cost you immediate revenue
Sanity or Contentful replaces WordPress with a real-time editing experience your team will use daily
Stop patching WordPress security exploits every quarter while your developer roadmap stalls
Vercel edge nodes in London deliver your site milliseconds from your audience with zero cold starts
Dump the block editor chaos that makes your content team avoid publishing updates
Automated 301 redirects map every old WordPress URL to its Next.js equivalent and transfer full link equity
Cut hosting bills by 60% while monolithic PHP servers keep burning your budget with zero speed gain
WebP and AVIF conversion with global CDN delivery shrinks image payload by 70% and keeps visual quality intact
Preserve every URL and backlink instead of risking a botched migration that wipes organic traffic overnight
Post-migration Search Console tracking confirms your traffic, crawl health, and indexation match or exceed pre-migration baselines
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
London-specific delivery
London market context
London's tech sector runs heavily on WordPress -- from Shoreditch startups to established agencies in King's Cross and Canary Wharf fintech. Many businesses inherited legacy WP installs from 2015-2019 that now struggle with performance, security patches, and editor workflows. The UK's strict GDPR enforcement makes data migration particularly sensitive. We see London clients migrating off WordPress when they hit scaling walls: slow admin panels, plugin conflicts, or when their CMS becomes a bottleneck for their product team. Common triggers include Series A funding rounds, rebrands, or M&A activity requiring faster iteration cycles.
How we work with London
Our London studio is at Old Street -- we can meet in person for discovery, technical workshops, or sprint planning. Most WordPress migrations involve sensitive data and legacy integrations, so we often start with an on-site audit of your current setup. After kickoff, delivery is remote-first: daily Slack standups, Linear for tickets, Loom for async demos. Aryan and the core engineering team are GMT-based, so timezone overlap is complete. We typically schedule weekly video syncs and can be at your office within 30 minutes if needed.
Clerkenwell Consulting Group
management consultingA 15-person consultancy had a WordPress Multisite install powering their main site and three practice area microsites. Admin panel took 8+ seconds to load; editors couldn't publish without developer help due to plugin conflicts. We migrated them to Astro for static pages and Next.js for their case study database, preserving all URLs and migrating 400+ posts. Content lives in Sanity CMS now. Build time dropped from 12 minutes to 90 seconds. Used Cloudflare for CDN and DDoS protection.
Lighthouse scores went from 38 mobile / 52 desktop to 98/100. Editors can now publish instantly without waiting for cache purges. Hosting costs dropped from £340/month (WP Engine) to £45/month (Vercel). Their marketing lead reclaimed roughly 6 hours per week previously spent wrestling with Gutenberg.
See the related solution →Budget context for London projects
London WordPress migrations typically range £8,000–£28,000 depending on scale. A 50-page marketing site with blog and a few forms sits around £10k–£14k. Enterprise migrations with custom post types, WooCommerce, or complex membership systems can reach £25k+. We charge fixed-price per phase: audit (£1,200–£2,000), migration build, QA, and go-live support. Most projects take 4–8 weeks. London clients often have budget for proper discovery and staging environments, which makes migrations cleaner. We don't do hourly; scope is locked after technical audit.
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Discovery & Site Audit
Week 1We crawl your existing WordPress site, map every URL, audit plugins and custom functionality, and document your content model. You get a detailed migration plan with a timeline and risk assessment.
Architecture & Design
Week 2We design the new stack -- frontend framework, CMS, hosting, and integrations. You approve wireframes and the component library before we build anything.
Content Migration & Build
Weeks 3–5Automated scripts extract all WordPress content while we build the new frontend in parallel. Every page, post, and media file is accounted for.
QA & SEO Verification
Week 6We run a side-by-side comparison of every URL, visual regression tests, Core Web Vitals benchmarks, and redirect chain validation. Nothing ships until it passes.
Launch & Post-Migration Support
Week 7+DNS cutover happens during off-peak UK hours with zero downtime. We then monitor Search Console, analytics, and uptime for 30 days to catch anything that surfaces.
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