wordpress → astro · migration service
WordPress to Astro migration, without losing what already works
Keep the content, the editors, and the rankings. Replace the slow, plugin-heavy part with pages that are pre-built and served from a CDN. Your visitors get a site that loads instantly; your team keeps a dashboard they know.
Why businesses make this move
- The site takes five-plus seconds to load and Google keeps saying so.
- Every plugin update is a small gamble nobody wants to take.
- The page builder that made it easy to build now makes it impossible to change.
- Hosting costs keep climbing for performance that keeps falling.
- You want to keep your content and rankings, not start over.
- Editors like the WordPress dashboard. Nobody likes the WordPress front end.
If several of those sound familiar, the stack is the problem, not your content. Here's what the slowness is actually costing you.
Two ways to run it
route a · keep the dashboard
Headless WordPress + Astro
WordPress stays as the editor your team already knows. Astro reads the content and builds static pages from it. Editors notice nothing; visitors notice everything.
when this pairing is the right callroute b · travel lighter
Astro + a git-based CMS
For sites where WordPress itself is the weight: content moves to a lightweight CMS like Sveltia, and there is no database, no plugins, and nothing to patch on a Tuesday.
how the content gets structuredWhich route fits depends on your team and your content. The audit answers it; I don't pick the stack before understanding the site.
What the migration includes
- audit & inventoryEvery URL, ranking, form, and integration mapped before anything moves
- redirect mapOne-to-one redirects so the equity your site earned transfers with it
- content migrationPosts, pages, media, and metadata carried over, restructured where it helps
- the front endYour design rebuilt clean, or a new one, shipped as fast static pages
- forms & integrationsContact forms, booking, analytics, and CRM connections rebuilt and tested
- hosting & dnsCloudflare-served, with DNS, email records, and SSL sorted properly
- documentationHow it works and how to edit it, written down, yours
- care after launchHosting and maintenance from $100/mo if you want it handled
Proof, not promises
squarespace → astro · local seo
Migrated off Squarespace. Kept every #1 ranking.
A wedding DJ company with #1 local rankings needed off its old platform without losing them. Same stakes as a WordPress move, same method, same result.
read the caseastro + sveltia · structured content
A 681-record catalogue with no database to maintain
A university research catalogue with seven-facet filtering and multi-contributor editing, running entirely on static pages. Astro handles more than brochure sites.
read the casewordpress → astro · this site
You're reading one right now
digital-anchor.com is itself a WordPress site rebuilt on Astro and served from Cloudflare. I also document this stack on YouTube, where nearly 13,000 people follow along.
the channelCommon questions
Will I lose my Google rankings?
Protecting them is most of the job. The migration starts with a full inventory of your URLs and rankings, every old URL gets a one-to-one redirect, and content and metadata move intact. The last migration like this kept every #1 ranking the client had, and Core Web Vitals usually improve enough that rankings trend up after the move.
Can my team keep editing in WordPress?
Yes. That's the headless route: WordPress stays as the editing dashboard your team already knows, and Astro builds the public site from it. If WordPress itself is the thing you're tired of, the alternative is a lighter git-based CMS like Sveltia. Which route fits depends on your team, and I'll tell you honestly which one I'd pick for you.
How long does a migration take?
It depends on the size of the site. A typical small-business marketing site is a few weeks from audit to launch. Large content libraries take longer, mostly in the mapping and testing. You get a real timeline after the audit, not a guess before it.
What does it cost?
Migrations are quoted per project after the audit, because a five-page site and a five-hundred-post site are different jobs. Ongoing hosting and care afterward starts at $100/mo. No retainers required to get the quote.
What happens to forms, search, and the dynamic parts?
Static-first doesn't mean static-only. Forms post to a proper backend and land in your inbox or CRM. Search and filtering work client-side or at the edge. Booking, analytics, and payment integrations carry over. The visitor-facing site gets faster; the functionality stays.
Why Astro and not another framework?
Astro ships plain HTML by default and only sends JavaScript where a page genuinely needs it, which is why the speed holds up long after launch. It's also what I build with daily, including this site. If your situation calls for staying on WordPress with a better setup instead, I'll say so; the audit is where that conversation happens.
Start with the audit.
Send me the site. You'll get a straight answer about whether this migration is worth it for you, and a real quote if it is.