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WordPress Migration Service
Move your WordPress site to new hosting, a new server or a new domain without losing the rankings and leads you already have.
We audit plugins, redirects, forms, media, scheduled tasks and template dependencies before anything moves, then rehearse the switch and compare the new site against the current one.
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•Why Suff Digital
Why businesses hire a WordPress migration agency instead of taking the free host migration.
Plenty of hosting companies will move your WordPress site for free, and for a simple brochure site that offer is fine. It covers the files and the database. It does not cover the parts that cost you traffic: a page builder storing layouts in the database, redirect rules living in server configuration, scheduled jobs that stop running, or a permalink structure that changes because the new setup defaults to something else. That gap is what WordPress migration services are for. If the free option is right for you, we will say so.
Speak with a specialist •
Matt Suffoletto
Founder & CEO
Kriszta
Chief Operating Officer
Tony
Partnership Director
What Our WordPress Migration Services Include
Our WordPress migration service covers the database, media, plugins, URL structure, redirects and launch checks.
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•Your database and media moved together
The whole database and every image file as one job, with image addresses corrected in all four places they are stored.
•Every plugin checked before it travels
For each plugin and must-use file: whether anything still calls it, what data it owns, and whether it survives the move.
•A new theme compared against the old one
New templates set against old ones page type by page type, so content depth and page titles do not quietly shrink.
•Multisite networks split or merged
Networks separated into standalone installs, or merged into one, with user accounts and upload folders untangled deliberately.
•Your post addresses kept as they are
Post, page and category addresses come across unchanged wherever the new setup allows, so the archive keeps the rankings that sit on them.
•Page builder layouts that survive
Builder layouts and theme settings rewritten with their lengths corrected, then checked on a page from every template.
•What goes wrong
WordPress migration failure points
These are the failures we prevent when a WordPress site changes host, server, domain or platform.
Diagnose my site •01
Page layouts that collapse after the move
Theme settings, builder layouts and widget options are stored as text that records its own length. A find and replace changes the text and leaves the length wrong, so WordPress can no longer read the value. Layouts break on some templates and not others.
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Images that break on older pages
An image address is stored in four places: post content, custom fields, theme settings and the media library table. Most moves update two. Pictures then load on the pages checked during launch and break elsewhere.
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Every post address changing overnight
The new setup arrives with a different permalink structure, or the plugin controlling it gets dropped, and every post URL changes at once. The site still works for visitors while Google sees an entire archive move without warning.
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Backups and email sequences that quietly stop
WordPress triggers its scheduled tasks when someone visits the site, so a move to a host with different traffic can stop them running. Backups, feed imports and email sequences lapse, and none of them report an error.
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Years of redirects left behind on the old server
Redirects and domain rules usually live in server configuration rather than inside WordPress, so an export leaves them behind. The new server starts with none, and years of redirect history disappears on launch day.
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Internal links still pointing at the old address
Links written as full URLs to the old domain keep working, because a redirect catches them. The site looks fine while every internal link takes an extra hop, which slows crawling and hides the real broken links.
Our WordPress Migration Process
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Phase 01
Week 1
We find out what your site depends on
Plugins and whether anything still calls them, must-use files, scheduled tasks, server redirect rules, upload folders and the permalink format. We also list every address your live site currently serves.
Phase 02
Weeks 1-2
Your URL structure becomes a fixed requirement
The permalink structure stops being a late setting and becomes a rule the new environment has to meet. Where it has to change, every affected address gets one destination and you sign that map off.
Phase 03
Weeks 2-3
We import onto a copy of your live setup
Same server configuration, same plugins, all switched on. Builder values get rewritten and checked template by template, image addresses verified across page types. Then we compare the result with your live site.
Phase 04
Week 3
The whole switchover, rehearsed and timed
The full sequence runs against a copy in order: final data sync, redirects deployed, DNS switched, caches cleared, tasks restarted. Then we roll it back, so launch day repeats a sequence with known timings.
Phase 05
Launch day
We switch over at your quietest hour
The hour comes from your own traffic pattern. We sync the last of the data, deploy the redirects, switch DNS on a shortened TTL and restart the tasks. Forms and payment paths are checked live before the window closes.
Phase 06
Weeks 4-7
Weekly comparison against the site you had
Status codes, redirects, page titles, internal links, indexing and traffic, all set against the numbers from before the move. Scheduled tasks get their own check, because a lapsed one changes nothing visible.
•The rankings you already have
A WordPress move can keep every URL. The risk sits in the data, not the addresses.
Unlike a hosted platform, WordPress lets you keep your permalink structure exactly as it is, so a well run move changes nothing search engines can see. The exposure moves elsewhere: database values that break silently, image addresses updated in some places and not others, and redirect rules the export never touches.
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Your permalink structure is recorded as a requirement, not chosen again later
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Theme and builder data is rewritten with its lengths corrected, then checked per template
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Server redirect rules are pulled off the old host, untangled and reissued
•What the move puts at risk
What a WordPress migration puts at risk, and where we stand on each.
If the switchover breaches the limits you agreed beforehand, we put you back on the old environment. That works because we ran the reversal during the rehearsal, inside the window the shortened DNS setting allows.
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Rankings and traffic. A changed permalink structure moves the whole archive at once, so the existing structure is fixed first
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Revenue. Forms, checkout and any payment path are checked live before the window closes
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Historical data. Analytics settings, Search Console properties and scheduled reports are carried over deliberately
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Integrations. Licences tied to a domain, webhooks and feed imports fail quietly, so each is restarted
WordPress Migration Deliverables
Documents and files a WordPress migration service should hand you, rather than status updates. Ask for the same list from any WordPress migration service you are comparing.
Month One
Before anything moves
✓What your install depends on — Plugins, must-use files, scheduled tasks, server redirect rules and upload structure, with anything unused marked for retirement.
✓The tool chosen for your site, and why — Named for your site, including where a plugin is wrong and a database level move is right.
✓Your URL structure, written down as a rule — The current permalink structure recorded as a requirement, plus a destination for every address that has to change.
Months 2-3
During the move
✓Builder layouts checked on every template — Layouts, theme settings and widget options checked per template after the rewrite, so silent damage is caught before launch.
✓Your server redirects, extracted and reissued — The old host's server rules pulled off and their chains resolved, then handed over as configuration for the new one.
✓A timed record of the rehearsal — The switchover run against a copy with every step timed and the rollback included, so your window has a known length.
Ongoing
After you go live
✓Every scheduled task, and how to tell it ran — What should run, where it runs from now, and the check that tells you it fired.
✓What the weekly comparisons found — Status codes, indexing and traffic against the numbers from before the move, with a cause named for anything that changed.
•Compare options
Compare WordPress Migration Services
Compare WordPress migration services by how they handle plugins, page builder data, redirects, scheduled tasks and post-launch checks.
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Builder data rewritten, not search-and-replaced
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Test import run with every plugin on
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Image addresses corrected in all four places
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Server redirect rules extracted and reissued
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Scheduled tasks listed and restarted
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Internal links rewritten to final destinations
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Switchover rehearsed on a copy and timed
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In-house / DIY
Builder data rewritten, not search-and-replaced
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Test import run with every plugin on
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Image addresses corrected in all four places
Server redirect rules extracted and reissued
Permalink structure treated as fixed
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Scheduled tasks listed and restarted
Internal links rewritten to final destinations
Switchover rehearsed on a copy and timed
Find out what your site depends on before anything moves.
Send us the site and where it needs to go. We will come back with the dependency list and whether your URL structure can stay.
•Frequently asked questions
Common Questions
There is no single official one. WordPress ships an importer and exporter that moves posts, pages and media, but not settings, plugin data or custom tables. The other common options are all-in-one migration plugins, your host's own migration, and a database level move.
•Ready for real growth?
Get the migration plan before you commit to a date.
We will look at your plugins, your URL structure and the destination, then tell you what breaks in the move and how to prevent it.
✓Clear scope before work starts
✓A written plan, not a sales call
✓An honest answer either way
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