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CMS & web migrations

Migrate your website without losing what matters.

Migration services from legacy platforms to modern, easy-to-administer systems — with careful data handling and SEO preservation.

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migration / what we movescope
ContentPages, posts, custom types and taxonomies
Migrated
URLs and redirectsEvery legacy URL mapped to its new home
Migrated
Media libraryFiles transferred with references rewritten
Migrated
SEO metadataTitles, descriptions and structured data preserved
Verified
Why it matters

Move platforms without the chaos.

The hard part of a migration is not moving the content. It is being able to prove afterwards that nothing was lost.

Legacy CMS migration

Complete migration from a legacy platform to a modern, maintainable CMS.

Legacy platform migration

Move away from outdated or unsupported systems to modern, secure alternatives.

Content & data transfer

Structured migration of pages, posts, media, metadata and custom content types.

SEO redirect mapping

Comprehensive URL mapping and 301 redirects to preserve search engine rankings.

Design refresh

Use the migration as an opportunity to modernise your visual design and user experience.

Training & documentation

Clear guides and hands-on training so your team can manage the new platform confidently.

When you need this

When staying put costs more than moving.

Migration is disruptive and occasionally the wrong call. Plenty of ageing platforms are perfectly serviceable, and replacing one that works is an expensive way to solve a problem you do not have.

The cases below are the ones where the cost of staying has genuinely started to exceed the cost of moving.

Signs it is time

  • The platform is unsupported — Security updates have stopped, or the version you are on is past end of life.
  • Editors avoid it — Content changes get emailed to a developer because the admin is too awkward to use.
  • Licence costs keep climbing — Without a matching increase in what the platform can actually do.
  • It cannot support what is next — The roadmap needs something the current platform will not do at any reasonable cost.
At a glance

How a migration is sequenced.

cms-migrations / architecture diagram
How a CMS migration is sequencedCurrent platformcontent · users · URLsAudit & mapevery page mappedNew platformcontent intactRedirects liverankings preserved
Every page, user and URL is mapped and reconciled against the source before go-live, so content survives the move and existing rankings are not lost to broken links. Scroll the diagram sideways to see all of it.
Typical deliverables

What the engagement can include.

  • Platform audit and migration strategy
  • Content and data migration scripts
  • SEO redirect mapping and implementation
  • New platform development and theming
  • Quality assurance and user acceptance testing
  • Post-migration support and monitoring
migration-pipeline / phasesphase two
Audit & strategySource analysis · content inventory · risk map
Complete
Content migrationScripted transfer · validation · cleanup
Running
Launch & verificationRedirects · monitoring · search console
Next
Questions

Planning the engagement.

Will we lose SEO rankings?
Not if the redirects are done properly. Every existing URL is mapped to its destination before launch and the mapping is tested, so search engines and existing links follow through. Rankings usually wobble briefly and recover; losing them permanently is a redirect failure, not an inevitability.
How long does a migration take?
A straightforward content site is often 4 to 8 weeks. A large catalogue, multiple languages or heavy custom functionality can run considerably longer. The audit at the start is what makes the estimate meaningful, because page count alone tells you very little.
What happens to our existing content?
It is migrated and then reconciled against the source rather than assumed to have arrived. For larger sites that reconciliation is the single most valuable part of the work, because it is the only way to know nothing was quietly dropped.
Can you migrate without downtime?
Effectively, yes. The new platform is built and populated on staging, content is frozen for a short final sync, then DNS is switched. The visible interruption is usually minutes rather than hours, and the previous site stays available until we are confident.
Can we keep our existing design?
Yes, if you want to. Rebuilding the front end faithfully on a new platform is a legitimate scope and keeps the project focused on the platform change. It is also a natural moment to revisit the design, but the two decisions do not have to be taken together.
Ready to build?

Stuck on a legacy platform?

Tell us what you are on now and what is forcing the question. We will tell you whether moving is worth the disruption, including when it is not.

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