Most Joomla enquiries we get are from businesses whose site works fine but whose developer has moved on. Finding somebody who still supports it is the actual problem.
Joomla has fewer developers working on it than it did, and that shapes the enquiries. The site itself is often perfectly serviceable; what has gone is the person who knew it. Agencies then tend to quote for a rebuild, because a rebuild is what they would rather sell.
Sometimes a rebuild is right. But a working Joomla site that simply needs patching, a few extensions updated and somebody available when something breaks is not a reason to spend a five-figure sum. We are happy to be the people who keep it running.
Where we would raise migration is when the extensions you depend on are themselves abandoned, or when what you want to do next is genuinely harder on Joomla than it would be elsewhere.
What we do
Working UK-wide — directly with businesses, and white label behind design and marketing agencies.
Discuss a projectCore and extension updates applied in scheduled windows, tested on a copy first.
Moving between major versions, where template and extension compatibility decides the effort more than the core upgrade does.
Fixing or replacing extensions that have been abandoned by their developers, which is the most common failure point.
Design changes and responsive fixes on an existing template, without rebuilding the site around a new one.
A review of what is there and documentation of how it works, so it is not a mystery the next time somebody leaves.
Moving content to another platform with URLs preserved — but only when the case for it is real.
A site that does its job and can be kept secure does not need replacing because the platform is unfashionable.
An unmaintained extension handling user data is a genuine problem, and a better argument for change than the platform itself.
Content, URLs and functionality all have to carry across. Worth doing deliberately rather than because somebody said Joomla is finished.
A lot of our work is delivered white label or under agreement, so these describe the problem and the approach rather than naming the client.
Five separate legacy CMS sites, five databases and five themes, consolidated into a single multilingual multisite CMS platform.
Hosting · SupportTen brand websites across one instruments group. Several we built, the rest we inherited — and all ten are hosted, maintained and supported by the same team.
We will tell you what state it is in, whether the extensions you rely on are still maintained, and whether keeping it is the sensible option — which it often is.