Migrate a WordPress Site to a Custom Website You Update by Texting Otto
The short answer
Our team builds you a new, faster website and moves over your WordPress content, pages, and search history, with redirects and SEO reviewed by a person before launch. You approve the new site before anything switches over. After launch, you make small changes and fixes by texting Otto, the AI assistant in your SCC Portal.
Coming soonOtto and the SCC Portal are coming soon. Until then, a real person on our team handles your website changes.
The problem
A lot of WordPress sites are older than the businesses’ current logos. They run on a theme nobody remembers buying, a dozen plugins that each need updates, and a login only one person knows. Every update risks breaking something, and skipping updates leaves security holes.
Owners often stay put because moving feels risky. They worry about losing years of blog posts, breaking links customers have bookmarked, or tanking the Google rankings that took a long time to earn. So the site gets slower and harder to change, and nothing happens.
How it works
- We start with an inventory. We crawl your current WordPress site (AI tools help speed this up) and list every page, post, image, form, and plugin, plus which pages Google actually sends visitors to.
- You and our team decide what moves over, what gets combined, and what gets retired. Old pages people still visit always get a new home or a redirect.
- Our team moves your content into the new site and builds a map from every old URL to its new address, then reviews that map line by line.
- We build the new design and send you a full preview to click through. You approve the design, request changes, or both.
- At launch, redirects go live, we submit the new sitemap to Google Search Console, and we check that analytics are recording.
- After launch, we give you access to your SCC Portal. You make small changes and fixes by texting Otto there instead of logging in to WordPress.
Human checkpoints
Our team does the build, AI helps with the repetitive inventory work, and you approve the decisions that matter.
- You approve what content moves and what gets retired.
- A team member reviews every redirect and the SEO settings before launch.
- You approve the finished site before the domain switches over.
What it doesn’t do
This isn’t a good fit if your WordPress site is really a complex application, like a large online store with custom integrations, a membership platform, or a learning system with logins. Those can move, but they’re a bigger custom project, not a standard migration. And if your current site works, loads fast, and you’re comfortable updating it, you may not need to move at all. We’ll tell you that during your Free AI Check.
Illustrative outcome
Imagine a local service business with an aging WordPress site and a long blog archive. After the move, the old blog posts still load at addresses that redirect cleanly, the site feels quicker, and the owner updates seasonal specials by texting Otto in the portal instead of hunting for the right plugin screen.
