WordPress to Astro migration

Move your WordPress site to a faster Astro website.

I help businesses replace heavy WordPress frontends with fast, streamlined websites—carefully carrying over their content, URLs, SEO essentials, and business integrations.

A lighter way to deliver your content

Your visitors need the page. Less overhead helps.

If your WordPress site has become weighed down by page builders, theme assets, and plugins, a migration is an opportunity to rethink what visitors actually need to download.

Astro can generate your pages ahead of time and serve them as HTML, CSS, and only the JavaScript your features need. Your public pages can load without waiting for WordPress or a database to assemble each request.

Speed is a goal we measure, not a framework guarantee. Images, fonts, third-party scripts, and hosting still matter. Read how Astro approaches performance

Start with the right fit

Does your website need a different foundation?

A business website, service site, marketing site, or blog with mostly shared public content can be a strong candidate for prebuilt pages.

I’ll assess what is causing the slowdown and whether improving your existing WordPress setup or migrating to Astro makes more sense.

A useful starting point

  • Your mobile pages feel slow or carry too much frontend code.
  • Your site mostly publishes services, articles, resources, or campaign content.
  • You want fewer public-facing theme and plugin dependencies.
  • You need to preserve established content and search visibility.

Stores, memberships, accounts, and personalized experiences need a separate review. Their features may require services or server-rendered pages alongside static content.

Protect what your site has earned

A migration plan built around your search visibility.

The work starts with your existing site: the URLs people find, the content they read, and the actions that bring inquiries to your business.

I aim to preserve successful content and structure during the initial migration, with larger content changes scoped separately when practical.

No one can promise unchanged rankings. Google notes that significant site changes can cause fluctuations while pages are recrawled and reindexed. Google’s migration guidance

  • Keep your domain and existing URL paths wherever practical.
  • Preserve valuable content, headings, internal links, and media references.
  • Carry over titles, descriptions, canonical tags, and applicable structured data.
  • Map permanent redirects for URLs that must change; check for chains and broken links.
  • Validate robots.txt, sitemaps, indexability, and staging restrictions before launch.
  • Verify analytics and conversions, then monitor indexing, errors, and organic traffic.
Keep publishing practical

A faster frontend. An editing workflow that fits.

You do not have to decide on the content system before we talk. We’ll choose it around who publishes, how often content changes, and what previews and approvals your team needs.

Option 01

Move away from WordPress

Rebuild the public website in Astro and move content into an agreed editing system. A useful path when you want to retire WordPress and simplify the platform.

Content editing, publishing access, training, and ongoing support are part of the scope. A static website still needs a workable way to make changes.

Option 02

Keep WordPress for editing

Continue managing content in WordPress while Astro delivers the public pages. Your team keeps a familiar CMS with a separate frontend designed around performance.

We plan content fetching, previews, and rebuilds when changes are published. WordPress still needs maintenance and hosting.

How Astro works with WordPress
From assessment to launch

A deliberate migration, with checks at each step.

Work directly with me on the frontend, content, integrations, and hosting decisions that make the migration complete.

  1. 01

    Assess the existing site

    Review key pages, mobile performance, search landing pages, publishing needs, plugins, and integrations. Establish a baseline and decide whether migration is the right investment.

  2. 02

    Map content and functionality

    Inventory URLs, content, media, metadata, and structured data. Agree on what stays, what needs rebuilding, and how your team will edit and preview content.

  3. 03

    Build and validate

    Rebuild templates in Astro and check representative pages across screen sizes. Compare content and SEO output, test redirects and forms, and measure performance with required scripts included.

  4. 04

    Launch and monitor

    Plan hosting, cutover, backups, and rollback. Check live URLs, indexing controls, analytics, and lead delivery, then monitor Search Console and organic landing pages after launch.

Before you make the move

Common migration questions.

The right plan protects how your business works as well as how your pages load.

Will I lose my Google rankings?

No migration can guarantee unchanged rankings. The goal is to protect the signals and content your site has earned through careful mapping, validation, and monitoring. Search visibility can fluctuate after significant changes; keeping successful URLs and content reduces avoidable disruption.

Can I keep editing in WordPress?

Yes. WordPress can remain your content management system while Astro generates the public website. Publishing needs a configured rebuild and deployment workflow, and previews need to be planned. The WordPress installation still needs hosting, security, and updates.

Do my WordPress plugins transfer?

Plugins do not automatically transfer to an Astro frontend. We review what each one does and decide whether to retain it in WordPress, rebuild the feature, or connect a suitable service. That includes forms, search, redirects, SEO output, and marketing tools.

Can a static website still have forms and search?

Yes. Prebuilt pages can connect to form handlers, search services, and other APIs. Those features need their own implementation and testing. Accounts, memberships, personalized content, and checkout require a closer look at the architecture.

Will Astro automatically make my site fast?

Astro provides a useful foundation, but the finished site still needs careful implementation. Images, fonts, video, analytics, advertising, and other third-party scripts all affect performance. I assess representative pages with the integrations your business actually needs.

Do I need a redesign at the same time?

No. We can preserve the visual direction and focus on the underlying build. For a site with established search traffic, keeping successful content and structure during migration can make the change easier to validate. A redesign can be scoped separately.

What does a migration cost, and how long does it take?

Scope depends on the number of unique templates, content quality, publishing requirements, and integrations—not just the page count. Share your existing website and goals so I can assess the work and propose a realistic scope and estimate.

Let’s look at your current website

Find out whether Astro is the right next step.

Share your website, what feels slow or difficult, and how your team manages content. We’ll discuss the pages, SEO priorities, and integrations that shape a sensible migration scope.

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