WordPress Migration Service
Need to migrate your WordPress site? Jason B offers expert WordPress migration services — WP Engine to Pressable, multisite moves, headless migrations. Get a quote today.
What Is a WordPress Migration?
Planning to move your WordPress site to a new host, consolidate multiple sites, or migrate from a legacy CMS? A poorly executed migration can mean hours of downtime, broken links, lost content, and damaged SEO rankings. Jason B Digital offers expert WordPress migration services that are fast, safe, and designed to cause zero disruption to your visitors or your Google rankings.
Whether you’re moving from WP Engine to Pressable, consolidating a WordPress multisite, or migrating an entire business platform to a headless WordPress architecture, the process is handled end-to-end — from initial audit through to post-launch checks. No guesswork, no surprises.
What Is a WordPress Migration?
A WordPress migration is the process of moving your WordPress website — including all files, databases, plugins, themes, and media — from one hosting environment to another. It sounds simple, but there are dozens of things that can go wrong: database collation mismatches, broken serialized data, misconfigured DNS, plugin conflicts on the new host, and SSL certificate issues, just to name a few.
An expert migration handles all of this proactively, with a staging environment to verify everything works before the live DNS cutover happens.
Types of WordPress Migrations I Handle
- Host-to-host migrations — WP Engine, Pressable, Kinsta, SiteGround, Flywheel, and more
- Traditional to headless WordPress migrations — Moving a classic WordPress theme-based site to a decoupled Next.js frontend
- WordPress multisite migrations — Moving an entire network of sites, or extracting a single subsite from a multisite
- Single site to multisite consolidations — Merging multiple standalone WordPress installs into a managed multisite network
- Domain changes and SSL transfers — Full domain migration with search-and-replace, permalink updates, and SSL provisioning
- CMS to WordPress migrations — Moving content from Squarespace, Wix, Drupal, Joomla, or other platforms into WordPress
My WordPress Migration Process
Every migration follows the same proven, low-risk process:
- Audit — Review the existing site: plugins, theme, database size, custom post types, media library, and any custom code
- Staging setup — Set up the destination environment and perform a dry-run migration to a staging URL
- Full migration — Migrate the database and files, run search-and-replace for URLs, verify all content, images, and links
- Testing — Thorough QA on staging: forms, e-commerce flows, membership areas, custom functionality
- DNS cutover — Coordinated cutover with minimal downtime window (often zero-downtime for managed hosts)
- Post-migration checks — Verify SSL, redirects, canonical URLs, Google Search Console property, and email deliverability
What Could Go Wrong — and How I Prevent It
Downtime: Properly timed DNS changes and TTL management mean most migrations happen with zero perceptible downtime. For business-critical sites, migrations are scheduled during low-traffic windows.
Data loss: Full backups are taken at every stage. The original environment is never decommissioned until the migration is verified complete and stable.
SEO impact: URL structure is preserved by default. If redirects are needed (domain change, permalink restructuring), a full 301 redirect map is implemented before the cutover. Google Search Console is updated and a re-crawl is requested post-migration.
Plugin conflicts: New hosting environments can expose plugin incompatibilities. These are caught and resolved on staging before the live site is touched.
WordPress Migration Pricing
Migration pricing depends on site size, complexity, and the type of migration. A straightforward single-site host-to-host move starts at a flat rate. Complex multisite migrations, headless architecture changes, or CMS-to-WordPress migrations are quoted individually.
Contact us for a free migration quote — describe your site and we’ll give you a clear, transparent estimate with no hidden fees.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does a WordPress migration take?
A standard host-to-host migration typically takes 1–3 business days from start to live. Complex multisite or headless migrations can take 1–2 weeks depending on scope.
Will my SEO rankings be affected?
If the migration is handled correctly — same URLs, proper 301 redirects for any changes, canonical tags intact — there should be no long-term SEO impact. Temporary fluctuations of 1–2 weeks are normal while Google re-crawls the new server, but rankings recover.
What happens to my emails?
Email is handled separately from the website. DNS changes are carefully staged so that MX records are updated after the site migration is complete, with no interruption to email delivery.
Do I need downtime?
In most cases, no. By managing DNS TTL values in advance and using staging environments for the bulk of the work, the actual cutover window is typically under 5 minutes.
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