Migrating off an old WordPress site is mostly about planning. Here is the playbook Eleveyte uses for low-risk migrations.
Legacy WordPress sites tend to accumulate plugins, custom fields, half-finished redirects and a theme that nobody fully understands. Migrating off them — whether to modern WordPress, Webflow or a custom Next.js stack — needs more planning than coding.
We start with a content inventory, a redirect map, a plugin audit and a measurement of every page that gets meaningful traffic. If you don't know what you have, you'll lose something in the move.
Each has trade-offs around editor experience, performance and engineering cost.
URLs, meta tags, structured data, internal links and 301 redirects are non-negotiable. We map every legacy URL to a new one, ship redirects on day one, and submit fresh sitemaps the moment we cut over.
Stage everything behind a password-protected URL, run a content freeze, do a same-day cutover, and keep the old site running in read-only mode for two weeks. If something breaks, you can flip back in minutes.
Search Console, analytics and uptime monitoring all get extra attention in the first 30 days. Most issues surface in week one — catch them quickly and migrations stop being scary.
