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Migrating WordPress to static

WordPress runs roughly 40% of the web. About a third of those installs are brochure sites that haven't changed in two years and don't need a database to keep working. Those are the ones we move.

Migration candidate · €600 flat

What WordPress is

WordPress is the world's most common CMS. Its brochure-site cohort — small businesses, professional practices, authors, musicians, non-profits — is the cohort static migration was invented for.

A typical brochure WordPress site is a database, a PHP runtime, ~50 plugins you forgot you installed, and ~80 pages of actual content. The content is what matters. Everything else is overhead — overhead you pay $20–80/month to keep running.

We crawl your live site, render every page exactly as a visitor sees it, save the HTML, and push it to Cloudflare's CDN. The plugins disappear because they were rendering server-side anyway. The admin panel disappears because you weren't using it monthly. The hosting bill disappears because static HTML costs us almost nothing to serve.

What to know before migrating

  • Page builders (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery) inflate JavaScript weight. We render through them rather than around them, so the static output is what users actually see.
  • Forms (Contact Form 7, Gravity, WPForms) need a static replacement. We swap them for Cloudflare Forms or a Formspree/Basin webhook — whichever fits.
  • Some plugins inject dynamic widgets (live chat, social feeds). Those become external embeds in the static version, or we replace them with their static equivalents.
  • If WooCommerce is active and processing orders, your site is not a brochure site and we're not the right fit.

Stays the same

  • Every URL, including pretty permalinks, /category/ archives, and /author/ pages
  • Every image and media asset, optimized via Cloudflare Polish
  • Schema markup (LocalBusiness, Article, FAQ) regenerated from the rendered HTML
  • Sitemap.xml and search-console history
  • Visual design, exactly as it renders today

What changes

  • No more wp-admin. Content edits are emailed to us; included in the plan.
  • No more plugin update treadmill. There are no plugins.
  • No more PHP version migrations every two years.
  • No more 'site is down because the database fell over'. There is no database.

Our take

If your WordPress site is a brochure that you'd be embarrassed to log into because it's been so long — that's the perfect candidate. The CMS was scaffolding. You don't need the scaffolding anymore.

Questions

Will I lose my Yoast / Rank Math SEO settings?

No. The rendered HTML keeps every meta tag, schema block, and OG image those plugins generated. We just preserve the output instead of recomputing it on every page load.

What about my contact form?

We replace it with a static-friendly form provider (Cloudflare Forms by default, free at this volume) so submissions still reach your inbox without any server-side WordPress code.

Can I still update my site?

Yes — content updates are included in your plan. Email us the change, we apply it, you see it live within a day. No login required.

What if I want to add a blog post?

Send us the post (Markdown, Google Doc, plain text — we don't care). We add it, regenerate the archive pages and feeds, and re-deploy. Counts as one content update.

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