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MOVING ON FROM WORDPRESS

We move your WordPress site in four steps, and leave the old one exactly as it is.

Connect your site, review what's there, tell us what comes across, and we import it. Pages, posts, media, menus, forms and your WooCommerce shop land in Web Presence Websites, rebuilt to load faster, while your WordPress site keeps running as it was.

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LEAVING WORDPRESS, THE OLD WAY

Leaving WordPress usually means losing something.

Moving a website usually means copying every page by hand: the home page, your services, your about page, the blog posts you wrote at midnight two years ago. Miss one and it's gone.

A shop makes it worse. Products, categories, images and variants copied wrong send customers to broken pages or an empty cart.

The safest way out used to mean touching the old site anyway: logging in, exporting, hoping the export held everything. One wrong click and the only live version of your business goes down while you're mid-move.

FOUR STEPS, NO DRAMA

How the WordPress importer works

Four steps, start to finish. Nothing moves until you say so.

01

Connect

Log into WordPress once, just for the import. We use it to read your site, nothing else.

02

Review

See every page, post, image, menu and form we found, so nothing surprises you later.

03

Choose

Tell us what comes across: all of it, or just the parts you want, including your WooCommerce shop.

04

Import

Your pages land in Web Presence Websites rebuilt to load faster, while your WordPress site keeps running exactly as it was.

HOW THE MOVE PLAYS OUT

Four steps, looked at up close.

Here's exactly what connecting, choosing and importing look like, in order.

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CONNECT & REVIEW

Connect your site, then see everything it found before anything moves.

Connect is a login, not a leap: sign into WordPress the way you always do, and the importer reads your site there and then. It never changes anything while it looks.

  • Connect with the WordPress login you already use
  • Review every page, post, menu and form it found
  • Nothing moves until you give the go-ahead
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CHOOSE WHAT COMES ACROSS

Choose what comes across, right down to your WooCommerce shop.

Choose is where you're in charge. We bring everything across in one go, or just the pages and posts you pick, and leave the rest behind.

  • Pick pages, posts and media, all or some
  • Menus and forms come across too
  • Your WooCommerce shop comes too, products and all
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IMPORT & LEAVE THE OLD SITE ALONE

We import your pages, and leave the old site exactly as it is.

Import lands your chosen pages in Web Presence Websites, rebuilt as it goes so they load faster than they did on WordPress.

  • Pages rebuilt to load faster on arrival
  • Your WordPress site keeps running, untouched
  • Ask for an archive you can restore from

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

What moving over gets you

Moving platforms is supposed to be the hard part. Here's what changes once we do the heavy lifting.

A move you don't have to babysit

Connect, review, choose, import: four steps instead of a weekend of copying pages one by one.

Nothing breaks during the move

Your WordPress site keeps running exactly as it is, so customers never see a broken page mid-move.

Your shop comes with you

Products, pages, posts, media, menus, forms and your WooCommerce shop all come across together.

Pages that load faster

Pages are rebuilt during import, so visitors get a quicker site the moment you switch over.

An archive if you want one

Say the word and an archive plugin keeps a restorable copy of your old site, installed only if you ask for it.

COMPARED TO MOVING IT YOURSELF

A typical WordPress move vs Web Presence Websites

Moving a WordPress site yourself

  • Copy each page by hand. Hours of copy-paste, page by page.
  • Hope the export caught everything. Exports miss plugins and custom fields.
  • Touch the old site to move it. Logins, exports and edits on the live site.
  • Rebuild the shop separately. Products and categories moved by hand, or not at all.
  • No way back if something's missing. Once it's gone from the export, it's gone.

Web Presence Websites

  • Four steps. Connect, review, choose, import.
  • A full review first. See every page, post, menu and form before anything moves.
  • The old site left exactly as it is. It's only read, never changed.
  • Your WooCommerce shop comes too. Products and pages migrate together.
  • An archive you can restore from. Installed only if you ask for it.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORDPRESS IMPORTER

Your WordPress move, answered

Will it change my WordPress site?

No. It reads the site and leaves it exactly as it is. The archive plugin is installed only if you ask for it.

What comes across in the move?

Pages, posts, media, menus, forms and a WooCommerce shop all come across, with an archive you can restore from.

Do I need to give you my WordPress password?

Your login is used only for the import, to connect and read your site. It's not used for anything else.

What happens to my existing mailing list?

Send it over and we bring it in separately through Web Presence Websites's own list import, mapped column by column to fields you already have.

Can I choose what comes across, or does everything move at once?

You choose. After the review, tell us what you want: all of it, or just pages and posts, or the shop too.

Will my pages load slower after the move?

No. Pages are rebuilt during import, so they load faster, not slower.

What if I want to keep a copy of the old site?

Ask for the archive and we install an archive plugin on the WordPress site during import, giving you a copy you can restore from.

WORKS ALONGSIDE

What your pages land in

Your imported pages don't just sit there. They plug straight into the rest of Web Presence Websites.

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Websites built for you

Your imported pages join a site written and designed in your brand, built to load fast from day one.

See how we build websites
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Sending domains, handled

Your new pages send and link from a domain set up and authenticated for you, with zero DNS to configure.

See how domains get set up
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Landing pages on your domain

We build a landing page from the same brief as your email, live on the same domain your imported site now uses.

See landing pages on your domain
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AI email design

Give us one line about the offer and we design a complete email in your brand, ready for the list we just brought over.

See AI email design
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Your WordPress site, moved in four steps.

Connect, review, choose, import — and the old site keeps running exactly as it was.