WordPress Site Migration
WordPress site migration moves your website to WordPress, or to a new host, or away from Divi without losing content, breaking links, or tanking your search rankings. City of Oaks Marketing handles the whole migration: from Squarespace, Wix, Joomla, or any platform to a custom WordPress build, or WordPress-to-WordPress moves between hosts. We preserve your SEO, redirect everything correctly, and launch with zero downtime, so a migration becomes an upgrade instead of a risk.
Migration Without the Risk
Migrations scare people for good reason. Done badly, they lose content, break internal links, drop hard-won search rankings, and knock the site offline at the worst possible moment. The fear of that is why many businesses stay stuck on a platform they’ve outgrown.
We remove the risk. A proper migration is methodical: inventory everything, preserve what matters, map every old URL to its new home, and test exhaustively before launch. When we migrate a site, the goal is that your visitors and Google barely notice the move happened — except that the new site is faster and better.
Migrations We Handle
Squarespace, Wix & Page-Builder to WordPress
The most common move we make: businesses that started on a hosted builder and hit its ceiling. We rebuild on a custom WordPress theme that’s faster, more flexible, and fully yours. (This is exactly what we did for Hoppr — a Squarespace-to-WordPress rebuild that cut load time by 95%. See the case study.)
WordPress Host-to-Host Migration
Moving your existing WordPress site to better hosting — for speed, reliability, or cost — with no downtime and no data loss.
Legacy CMS to WordPress
Migrating from older or proprietary systems (Joomla, Drupal, custom CMSes) to a modern, maintainable WordPress build.
Domain & URL Restructuring
Changing domains or restructuring your URLs as part of a migration, with comprehensive 301 redirect mapping so you keep your rankings and no visitor hits a dead link.
How We Protect Your SEO During Migration
This is where most migrations go wrong, and where our background in technical SEO matters. We map every existing URL to its new destination and implement 301 redirects so link equity transfers cleanly. We preserve metadata, headings, and content structure. We rebuild your XML sitemap and submit it. And we monitor search performance after launch to catch any issues before it costs you traffic. The result is a migration that holds your rankings instead of gambling with them.
Zero-Downtime Launch
We build and test your new site fully before it goes live, then cut over in a way that keeps your site available throughout. No “down for maintenance” window, no lost leads during the transition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will I lose my Google rankings when I migrate to WordPress?
Not with a properly executed migration. The rankings risk comes from lost content and broken URLs — both of which we prevent through comprehensive redirect mapping and SEO preservation. Done right, rankings hold and often improve once the new site is faster.
Can you migrate from Squarespace or Wix to WordPress?
Yes — that’s one of our most common projects. We rebuild your site as a custom WordPress build that’s faster and more flexible, migrating your content and preserving your SEO.
Will my site be down during the migration?
No. We build and test on a staging environment and cut over with zero downtime. Your current site stays live until the new one is ready.
Ready to Move to WordPress?
Tell us where your site lives now and where you want it to go. We’ll explain exactly how we’d migrate it safely. Book a discovery call.