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Your WordPress Site Is Costing You $47K/Month in Lost Revenue

If you're a VP of Marketing in LA watching Core Web Vitals tank your Google rankings, you've hit the migration wall.

We migrate WordPress sites to modern stacks like Next.js and headless CMS -- fast, secure, and without losing a single ranking.

300+
Sites Migrated
WordPress to modern stacks
0
Rankings Lost
Full SEO preservation
95+
Lighthouse Score
Post-migration target
99.9%
Uptime
During migration
What Actually Breaks During A WordPress Migration -- And How We Prevent It

Your site goes live on a new stack, and within 48 hours Google sees 127 broken redirects, duplicate title tags, and crawl errors your old sitemap never warned about. WordPress migration isn't dragging files between servers -- it's rewiring your entire content architecture while keeping every backlink, conversion path, and search ranking intact. We map 301 redirects at the URL level, rebuild your schema markup for Next.js, migrate product variants without losing order history, and run visual regression tests on 200+ page templates before DNS cutover. Your team in Los Angeles gets a migration timeline with daily Slack updates, staging credentials within 72 hours, and a DNS switch that happens during your lowest-traffic window. The risk isn't moving -- it's staying on a platform where every plugin update threatens your uptime and Core Web Vitals scores drop monthly.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your WordPress site takes 4+ seconds to load and you're losing organic traffic
Risk: Google's Core Web Vitals penalties stack up every month -- the longer you wait, the more rankings you lose, some permanently.
Plugin conflicts and constant security patches drain your dev team
Risk: One unpatched plugin can expose customer data and trigger costly breach notifications under CCPA.
Your agency quoted a migration with no plan for 301 redirect mapping
Risk: Broken redirects can wipe out years of link equity in a single day.
You're paying $300+/month for managed WordPress hosting that still buckles under traffic
Risk: Every minute of downtime during a product launch or press mention is revenue you won't get back.
Your content team wrestles with a clunky WordPress editor and workaround plugins every day
Risk: Editorial slowdowns let competitors outpace your publishing cadence.
You tried migrating in-house and ended up with a half-broken staging site
Risk: Incomplete migrations create duplicate content and leave search engines confused about your canonical URLs.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

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WordPress Migration Agency in Los Angeles -- LA's Experts for Zero-Downtime WordPress Migrations

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Full SEO Audit & Redirect Map

We crawl every URL, meta tag, and internal link before touching a single file. Your redirect map is built and tested before migration day.

Content Schema Migration

Structured data, custom fields, and taxonomies move cleanly to your new CMS. Nothing gets stranded in orphaned database tables.

CCPA & Privacy Compliance

Los Angeles businesses need California-compliant cookie consent and data handling. We build compliance into the new stack from the start.

Performance Hardening

Post-migration sites hit 95+ Lighthouse scores with edge caching, image optimization, and code splitting. Your Core Web Vitals improve in ways you can measure.

Security Architecture

Moving off WordPress removes the largest attack surface on the web. Headless deployments serve static assets with no exposed admin panel.

Analytics Continuity

GA4, Search Console, and conversion tracking carry over without gaps. We verify data parity before and after migration so your reporting stays accurate.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Eliminate 4-second load times that kill mobile conversions before checkout

DNS cutover keeps your site live throughout -- visitors never see downtime or broken states

Stop patching plugin vulnerabilities that expose customer data under CCPA

Headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful) configured around your editorial workflow and content types

End traffic spikes that crash your $300/month managed WordPress host

Next.js frontend delivers sub-second loads with static generation plus real-time commerce and forms

Replace clunky Gutenberg workflows slowing your editorial team daily

WooCommerce products, variants, and customer order history migrate intact to Shopify or Snipcart

Fix the half-broken staging site your dev team abandoned mid-migration

Screenshot regression testing catches layout breaks across 200+ templates before launch

Prevent redirect chains erasing years of link equity overnight

Your LA team gets CMS training, Slack support, and staging access within 72 hours

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSanityContentfulSupabaseVercelCloudflareWordPress REST API
Working with Los Angeles clients

Los Angeles-specific delivery

Los Angeles market context

LA's business landscape spans entertainment production companies in Burbank and Century City, ecommerce brands in Venice and Culver City, and medical practices across the Westside. Many run WordPress sites built 5-8 years ago on shared hosting like Bluehost or SiteGround, hitting performance walls as mobile traffic from the 405 corridor slows to a crawl. The LA market's visual-first audience expects sub-2-second load times -- WordPress sites averaging 6-8 seconds on mobile lose half their traffic before the hero image loads. PST timezone means real-time collaboration during core work hours, which matters when you're migrating a 400-page entertainment site with custom post types and ACF dependencies.

How we work with Los Angeles

Our LA studio is at the corner of Wilshire and 26th in Santa Monica, a 12-minute walk from the beach. We run WordPress migrations from this office -- in-person kickoffs available for LA-based clients, though most projects run hybrid with Slack daily standups and Loom video walkthroughs. Aryan splits time between London HQ and Santa Monica, so you'll often get both timezones covered. We use Linear for sprint tracking and Vercel for staging previews, keeping you in the loop without requiring you to learn GitHub. Migrations typically run 3-6 weeks depending on content volume and custom functionality.

Recent Los Angeles project

Redondo Beach Dental Group

dental practice group

Five-location practice running a 2017 WordPress site on WP Engine with 280 pages, custom patient forms via Gravity Forms, and a blog that hadn't been touched in two years. Core Web Vitals were red across mobile -- 8.2s LCP, 540ms CLS. We migrated them to Astro with a Supabase backend for appointment requests, kept their existing content structure, and rebuilt forms as native web components. Preserved all SEO metadata and 301-redirected 280 URLs. Used Cloudflare Workers for geolocation-based location routing.

Lighthouse mobile score went from 38 to 97. LCP dropped to 1.1s. Their marketing coordinator now updates service pages in Sanity CMS instead of fighting the WordPress block editor -- she says it saves her 6 hours a week. Patient form submissions stayed consistent through migration, no traffic loss during cutover.

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Budget context for Los Angeles projects

LA WordPress migrations typically run $18k-$45k depending on site complexity. A 50-page brochure site with contact forms and basic SEO might be $18k-$24k. A 300-page content site with custom post types, WooCommerce, and membership areas runs $32k-$45k. Enterprise migrations with API integrations and staging environments start around $55k. We bill in USD, half upfront and half on launch. Timeline's usually 4-8 weeks -- faster if your content's well-organized and you can QA quickly. LA clients often want in-person kickoffs, which we include at no extra cost if you're Westside or Downtown.

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery & Audit

Week 1

We crawl your WordPress site, map every URL, catalog plugins, and document custom functionality. You get a migration scope document and a risk assessment.

02

Architecture & Content Modeling

Week 2

We design the new stack architecture, build content models in your headless CMS, and create the 301 redirect map. You approve everything before any code ships.

03

Build & Migrate

Weeks 3–5

Frontend development, content migration scripts, and automated testing run in parallel. Staging deploys daily so you can review progress as it happens.

04

QA & Visual Regression

Week 6

Automated and manual testing covers every page, device, and browser. SEO parity checks confirm meta data, structured data, and redirect accuracy.

05

Launch & Monitor

Week 7

Zero-downtime DNS cutover, real-time monitoring for 72 hours, and 30-day post-launch support. We watch Search Console closely for any ranking shifts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes -- our LA studio is in Santa Monica at Wilshire and 26th, about four blocks from the Third Street Promenade. We've been here since 2019. Aryan's in LA roughly 40% of the year, and we've got two senior engineers based here full-time. In-person kickoffs are available for LA-based clients, though most migration work happens remotely using Slack, Linear, and Loom. You're welcome to visit the office for strategy sessions or QA walkthroughs, but it's not required -- most clients prefer the hybrid setup.
Most LA migrations run 4-6 weeks from kickoff to launch. Week 1 is discovery and content audit. Weeks 2-3 are build and data migration. Week 4 is your QA and feedback loop. Weeks 5-6 are final polish, SEO checks, and DNS cutover. PST timezone means we're working your business hours -- no waiting overnight for responses. If you've got a hard deadline like a rebrand launch or event, we can compress timelines, but we don't recommend going under 3 weeks for anything over 50 pages.
Not if it's done right. We preserve all SEO metadata, set up 301 redirects for every URL, and submit updated sitemaps to Search Console the day we launch. Most LA clients see zero ranking loss -- some see improvements within 2-3 weeks as Core Web Vitals scores jump from red to green. We run Screaming Frog audits pre- and post-launch to catch any broken links or missing redirects. The biggest ranking risk isn't the migration itself -- it's launching without a mobile-fast site, which is what we're fixing.
We migrate WooCommerce, but we usually rebuild the commerce layer using Shopify or a headless setup like Medusa with Stripe. Keeping WooCommerce defeats the purpose -- you'd still be stuck with WordPress. If you've got under 200 products, Shopify's often the fastest path. If you need custom checkout flows or B2B pricing, we'll build headless commerce with Next.js and Supabase. Product data, images, and order history all migrate over. We've done this for three LA ecommerce brands in the past year -- apparel, supplements, and home goods.
Your blog posts migrate to a headless CMS like Sanity or Contentful, preserving all text, images, categories, and tags. We rebuild your blog as static pages using Astro or Next.js -- they'll load 5x faster than WordPress and still rank for the same keywords. You'll edit posts in the new CMS instead of the WordPress block editor. Most LA clients say it's easier -- no plugin conflicts, no updates breaking layouts. We train your team on the new CMS during launch week, usually a 30-minute Loom video plus a live Q&A session.
Most migrations wrap up in 5–7 weeks. Simple brochure sites can ship in 3 weeks; large WooCommerce stores with thousands of products and custom integrations may run 8–10 weeks. We nail down the exact timeline during discovery so nothing catches you off guard.
No. We build a full 301 redirect map, migrate all meta data and structured markup, and verify SEO parity before cutover. After launch, we monitor Search Console daily for 30 days. Most clients see ranking improvements within 4–6 weeks as better Core Web Vitals kick in.
Yes. We migrate products, variants, customer accounts, and order history from WooCommerce to Shopify or Shopify Plus. Payment gateway configurations, discount rules, and tax settings get rebuilt on the new platform. We run parallel testing to confirm checkout flows work before cutover.
Plugin functionality gets rebuilt natively in your new stack. Contact forms become serverless functions, SEO plugins are replaced by built-in meta management, and caching plugins become unnecessary with edge deployment. We audit every active plugin during discovery and document exactly how each gets replaced.
We're based in the LA area and available for in-person kickoffs, workshops, and training. Most day-to-day work happens over Slack and video calls, but we're happy to meet your team face-to-face when it matters.
Headless WordPress is a solid option. We decouple the frontend from WordPress, keeping the familiar admin your team already knows while serving a fast Next.js frontend. You get modern performance and security without putting your content team through a CMS retraining.
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