WordPress to static · Migration

Same site. None of the breakage.

WordPress made sense when you needed a blog. If your site is really ten pages that change twice a year, you're paying, in speed, security, and maintenance, for machinery you don't use. We rebuild WordPress sites as hand-coded static HTML: sub-second loads, nothing to hack, nothing to update, and hosting that costs less.

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Why leave WordPress.

Most small local businesses don't need a CMS. They need a fast site that ranks and makes the phone ring. For a site nobody edits, WordPress gets in the way of all three.

WordPress too slow? It's not you.Every visit boots PHP, queries a database, and loads a theme plus plugins before a single word appears. A static page is just a file. It loads in under a second because there's nothing else to do.
A target that never sleepsWordPress exposes a login page, a database, and third-party plugin code on every site. Static HTML has no database, no admin login, and no PHP to exploit. There's nothing to hack.
Updates that break the sitePlugin updates ship on their own schedules and take each other down. Skip them and you're insecure; run them and Tuesday's update breaks Wednesday's contact form. Static sites have no plugins to update.
The maintenance alternativeA maintenance plan exists to protect WordPress from itself. Migrating to static is the alternative: when there's nothing to patch, you stop paying to patch it, and hosting drops to the cheaper static tier.

We did it to our own site first.

On May 6, 2026 we moved this site from WordPress to hand-coded static HTML. 57 pages, Lighthouse 100/100/100. Then we kept doing it for clients.
Barbershop · London ONSouthdale BarbershopWordPress rebuilt as fast static HTML, live disk use down to about 28 MB from a full WordPress install.See the rebuild → Renovations · London ONHabib RenoA 3.2 MB static site replaced a WordPress install whose full backup archive ran 98 MB.See the rebuild → Construction · London ONMega ConstructionRebuilt as fast static HTML with local SEO metadata, JSON-LD schema, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml, live since April 2026.See the rebuild →

The pattern holds. Matti Auto runs on eight hand-coded pages with no CMS and no backend. Sinbad Restaurant is a bilingual English and Arabic static rebuild, twenty pages, WordPress replaced at the apex.

What's included.

A migration isn't a copy-paste job. Every project ships with the same baseline, so nothing is lost and nothing goes dark.

Full content extractionEvery page, post, image, and menu comes out of WordPress before we touch anything. Nothing is lost in the move.
Pixel-faithful or improved rebuildWe rebuild the site as it is, or fix what's dated while we're in there. Either way it's hand-coded HTML. Want a full redesign too? That's our web design work.
Every old URL 301-redirectedWe map every WordPress URL to its new home and keep the same addresses wherever possible, so search engines and old links land exactly where they should.
Schema preserved or addedLocalBusiness structured data and any schema your old site had carries over, or gets added properly if it never had any.
GA4 + Search Console reconnectedAnalytics and Search Console are verified and firing on the new site before cutover, so your measurement never goes dark.
Launch + post-launch checksWe verify redirects, forms, schema, and indexing at launch, then check again in the weeks that follow.

When you should keep WordPress.

This isn't for everyone, and we'll tell you when it isn't. If you publish blog posts every week, or your staff edit the site daily, the CMS is earning its keep, keep it. In that case we harden WordPress instead: managed hosting, staged updates, daily backups, and monitoring. See hosting & care →

Common questions.

What business owners ask before leaving WordPress behind.

Will my Google rankings survive?This is the part we're most careful with. Every old WordPress URL is mapped to its new address with a 301 redirect, and we keep the same URLs wherever possible so most pages never move. Google follows the map and rankings carry over, and the faster, cleaner pages usually help.
Can I still edit my site?There's no dashboard to log into, that's the point. We handle small changes for you under our care plans, usually the same day. If you need to edit content yourself every week, static isn't the right fit: keep WordPress and we'll harden it instead.
How long does it take?A typical small business site takes about a week from kickoff to cutover. Your WordPress site stays live the whole time. We build the static version alongside it and switch over once you've approved every page.
What happens to my old WordPress site?Nothing is deleted until you're safe. We take a full backup of your WordPress site, files and database, and keep it off-server before cutover. If you ever want WordPress back, it can be restored.

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