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Moving off WordPress

The WordPress alternative for businesses that just want to edit their website

By Digital 9 Labs · Updated

Short answer

If you use WordPress mainly to change text and pictures, you do not need its plugins, themes and updates. Digital 9 Labs rebuilds your WordPress website as a fast modern site that keeps your design, pages and web addresses, and connects it to AI CMS so your team edits it by chat.

Step by step

  1. Review the current site

    We list your pages, forms, integrations and web addresses, and agree what to keep, improve or retire.

  2. Rebuild as a modern website

    We rebuild the site on a modern framework, keeping the design and content, with editable content fields for AI CMS.

  3. Check it privately

    You review the new site on a private preview before anything changes for visitors.

  4. Switch over

    We point your domain to the new site and add redirects so old links and search rankings carry over.

  5. Hand over AI CMS

    Your team is invited with the right roles and starts editing by chat. We stay behind it for bigger changes.

Why businesses leave WordPress

  • Maintenance: core, theme and plugin updates, and the site breaking after one of them.
  • Security: WordPress is the most targeted website platform, and every plugin adds risk.
  • Speed: page builders and plugins add weight that slows pages down.
  • Editing is still hard: the dashboard and page builder need training, so updates fall to one person.

What you keep

Moving should not cost you what already works. When we move a WordPress site to AI CMS, the aim is that visitors and search engines notice only that it got faster.

  • Your design, rebuilt faithfully or refreshed if you want
  • Your pages and content
  • Your web addresses, with redirects for anything that must change
  • Your page titles and descriptions for search engines

What you drop

  • Plugins and plugin licences
  • Theme and core updates
  • The WordPress admin login as an attack target
  • Page builders

Side by side

WordPress compared with AI CMS
AspectWordPressAI CMS
Making a changeDashboard and page builderDescribe it in a sentence
Checking before livePreview, if the theme supports itPrivate preview of the real site, always
MaintenanceCore, theme and plugin updatesNone for you to do
UndoDepends on revision plugins and backupsEvery change is a version
Who can publishAnyone with an admin loginOnly people you make publishers

Questions

Will I lose my Google rankings if I leave WordPress?
Not if the move keeps your web addresses, page titles and content, and redirects anything that must change. That is part of every migration we do.
Can I keep my domain and email?
Yes. Your domain stays yours and email is not affected; only the website moves.
What about WooCommerce or complex plugins?
We review them first. Some features are rebuilt, some are replaced with a better service, and we tell you before starting if a site is not a good fit.
How much does it cost?
It depends on the size of the site. Talk to us on WhatsApp for a quote after a short review.

See AI CMS on your own website.

A short demo on WhatsApp: we show the editor, the preview and publishing, and tell you what moving your site involves.