Rankings drop when URLs break, when titles and headings go missing, or when crawlers hit errors. We keep your URLs, redirect any that change one to one, and carry every title and description over before anything else changes. Then we watch Search Console daily after launch.
WordPress migration
Leave WordPress
Keep Every Ranking
We rebuild your WordPress site in custom code, keep every URL that ranks and retire the plugins.
- Moves over
- Pages, posts, images and every URL
- Rebuilt
- Design, forms and anything a plugin did
- Retired
- Plugins, theme updates and wp‑admin logins
- SEO risk
- Low, with a redirect for every URL that changes
Why moveWhy Businesses
Why Businesses
Leave WordPress
- 01
Plugins are the open door
Patchstack counted 11,334 new WordPress vulnerabilities in 2025, and 91% of them were in plugins. A custom site runs without a plugin layer.
Patchstack, State of WordPress Security in 2026 ↗ - 02
The updates never end
Core, theme and plugin updates land every month, and one bad update can take the site down. A custom site changes only when we change it.
- 03
PHP moves under your site
WordPress runs on PHP, so every PHP security release is your site's problem too, like the October 21 advisory. Our sites run without a PHP server to patch.
PHP security announcement, Oct 21 2026 ↗ - 04
The theme sets the ceiling
A theme decides what your pages can do. In code, a quote wizard, a service area map or 29 city pages are part of the site from day one.
Side by sideWordPress
WordPress
Against Custom Code
| For this move | WordPress | Custom code by AHXE |
|---|---|---|
| What you run | PHP, a database, a theme and plugins | Custom code we control freely, served by Cloudflare |
| Security upkeep | Core, theme and plugin patches every month | Dependency updates we handle in code |
| Changes | wp‑admin, plus a plugin for anything custom | Made in code by our team and checked before they go live |
| Pages at scale | Built one at a time in the editor | Generated from data: Extreme Steam runs 478 pages |
| SEO | An SEO plugin and its settings | Titles, structured data, sitemap and llms.txt on every page |
| Redirects | A plugin or server rules | Permanent redirects at Cloudflare, one per URL |
What movesWhat Comes Across
What Comes Across
From WordPress
- Pages and postsMoves overEvery page and post comes across with its copy, page by page.
- URLsKeptSame paths and slugs. A URL only changes with a redirect in place.
- Images and filesMoves overEverything in the uploads folder is copied and sized for the web.
- SEORebuiltTitles, descriptions, canonicals and structured data carried over, then checked.
- FormsReplacedForm plugins become forms that send each lead straight to your inbox.
- PluginsReplacedEach one gets a decision: built into the site, swapped for a service or retired.
- Store, bookings, membershipsCase by caseWooCommerce and member areas need a plan of their own. We say so on the first call.
How we move itThe Same Six Steps
The Same Six Steps
On Every Move
- 01
Inventory every URL
We crawl the live site and list every page, post, image and file before anything is designed.
- 02
Map the redirects
Every URL keeps its path, or gets one permanent redirect straight to its new page.
- 03
Rebuild in code
Same pages and copy first, built on our own components, so any change in traffic has a clear cause.
- 04
Carry the SEO over
Titles, descriptions, canonicals, structured data and the sitemap, checked page by page.
- 05
Test the paths that pay
Every form, call button and booking link is tested on a phone before the switch.
- 06
Launch and watch
The domain switches early in the week, then we watch Search Console daily for broken links and indexing.
ProofMoved Off A Builder
Moved Off A Builder
Now First On Google
Extreme Steam left a site builder for custom code. Here is where it stands on Google today.
01
187
Search terms where they rank first on Google
02
942
Search terms that put them on page one
03
36.7K
Times they showed up on Google in 46 days
04
478
Pages, every one in English and Spanish
Extreme Steam, Google Search Console, Sep 5 to Oct 20, 2026
Honest answerWhen To Stay
When To Stay
On WordPress
If one of these is you, staying put is probably the better call. We will say so up front.
- Stay if
WooCommerce runs the business and the store is the site.
- Stay if
Your team publishes in WordPress every day and needs to keep that.
- Stay if
The site depends on memberships or a plugin with no good replacement.
Questions?
We've got answers.
Done for you
Want It Moved For You?
We Keep Every Ranking
Every URL kept or redirected, and every title, description and schema checked before the switch.
- Every URL listedPages, posts and files, inventoried before anything is designed.
- URLs kept or redirectedSame paths where we can, one redirect where we can't.
- SEO carried overTitles, canonicals and structured data, checked at launch.