Raze rebuilds WordPress marketing sites, blogs, and publications in Astro. We map your content, URLs, and integrations, then build a website your team can keep publishing.
Share your WordPress URL, current hosting, plugin dependencies, content volume, and the reason for moving. We will identify the highest-risk decisions before a 30-minute working session.
Strategy, design, content migration, Astro engineering, technical SEO, and launch handled by the same senior team.
Your content, design, publishing tools, and integrations each need a destination. We scope the whole move before rebuilding your WordPress site in Astro.
We crawl every indexable URL and map posts, pages, media, taxonomies, custom post types, metadata, redirects, canonicals, forms, scripts, and plugin-owned functionality before deciding what moves.
We choose where content lives, how editors preview changes, and how publishing updates the website. WordPress can remain the CMS, or content can move to a new CMS or Markdown files.
We rebuild the approved design with Astro components and add JavaScript where visitors need it, such as search or a calculator. Forms, analytics, responsive layouts, and CRM connections are included in the agreed scope.
We transfer content and assets, preserve or deliberately redirect URLs, recreate metadata and structured data, generate the sitemap, test internal links, and monitor the first production crawl after launch.
Most migration failures begin before development. The destination stack gets chosen before the team knows what WordPress is currently doing.
Category bases, attachment pages, pagination, custom post types, and plugin routes can all be indexed. A visual sitemap does not reveal the full migration surface.
Forms, search, redirects, gated downloads, related content, multilingual routing, and CRM handoffs often live inside plugins. None of that moves automatically with the design.
Posts are easy to export. Featured media, authors, categories, internal links, reusable blocks, SEO fields, and custom relationships are where migration scripts need deliberate mapping.
A technical upgrade fails commercially if marketers lose previews, drafts, structured fields, scheduling, or the ability to create a page without an engineer.
Redirects matter, but so do canonicals, metadata, structured data, internal links, sitemap membership, robots rules, rendered content, status codes, and post-launch crawl behavior.
Inventory first, architecture second, implementation third. The launch plan is built alongside the new site instead of being improvised at the end.
Crawl the public site, inspect WordPress content types and APIs, list plugins and integrations, capture analytics benchmarks, and identify every route or workflow that needs a destination.
Choose the CMS, map content fields and redirects, and decide which pages can be built ahead of time. Define how previews, publishing updates, and any server-rendered routes will work.
Develop the component system and integrations while migration scripts normalize content, download assets, rewrite internal references, and preserve authorship, dates, slugs, and SEO data.
Compare route inventories, crawl the staging build, test forms and analytics, validate structured data, review mobile behavior, and rehearse the DNS, hosting, cache, and rollback sequence.
Deploy the Astro site, verify production headers and redirects, submit the canonical sitemap, watch indexing and crawl errors, and resolve launch-only issues against live evidence.
The handover includes publishing instructions, migration records, deployment configuration, and checks against the live website.
These platform choices shape the migration scope, publishing workflow, and hosting setup.
Astro can use content from WordPress, another CMS, or local files. Keeping WordPress as the editor means maintaining it alongside the new frontend.
Source: Astro WordPress migration guideAstro components render HTML without a client-side runtime. Interactive islands add JavaScript to individual features when needed.
Source: Astro islands architectureAstro builds pages ahead of time by default. Routes that need request-time data can use on-demand rendering with a deployment adapter.
Source: Astro on-demand renderingThe deliverable is a production Astro website with a documented content model, verified URL behavior, working integrations, and a rollback-aware launch plan.
URL by URL
Every indexable WordPress URL is preserved, redirected, consolidated, or intentionally retired with an explicit status.
Mapped
Posts, pages, media, authors, taxonomies, fields, and relationships have documented destinations.
Rebuilt
Metadata, canonicals, structured data, internal links, robots rules, and sitemap generation ship with the new site.
Production code
The company owns the Astro codebase, deployment configuration, migration logic, and technical documentation.
Best for marketing sites, blogs, and publications where most pages deliver content and only specific features need interactivity.
The site relies on a brittle theme, an opaque builder, overlapping plugins, or specialist maintenance for changes the marketing team should be able to make safely.
Your site is mainly service pages, articles, case studies, or resources, with a smaller set of interactive features. Astro lets us build around that balance.
Performance budgets, structured content, testable components, deployment previews, version control, and explicit ownership now matter more than retaining the current theme and plugin model.
“I've worked with a lot of designers. Edin and Mergim are the only ones who never made me trade speed for quality. They shipped across GrowthX and our client work and never once became the bottleneck.”
Jason Gong, VP GTM
GrowthX
“We needed Docket to look like an AI company you'd trust, not another startup with a gradient and a promise. Raze got us there fast, stayed direct, and never let the project wander.”
Arun Lal, SVP of Marketing
Docket AI
“Edin and Mergim ran Emotive's marketing site for years. Not a one-off project, the actual site. It always looked a step ahead of where the company actually was, which is exactly what you want your website doing.”
Brian Zatulove, CEO
Emotive
“Raze rebuilt our site and it was the rare project where I never had to chase anyone. They understood the technical side, sweated the details, and shipped before I expected it.”
Ty Magnin, CEO
Animalz
Answers about Astro, CMS choices, publishing, plugin replacements, search risk, and migration timing.
A WordPress to Astro migration moves a website's front end from a WordPress theme or page builder into an Astro website. It also maps content, media, URLs, metadata, forms, analytics, integrations, redirects, and editorial workflows so the new website can replace the old one without discarding its operational or search value.
Yes. WordPress can remain as a headless CMS while Astro renders the public website. That option preserves a familiar editor but still requires API design, previews, caching, image handling, draft behavior, custom-field mapping, and a clear boundary between WordPress and the Astro application.
Not by itself. Astro is a framework for building the website application, while WordPress also provides content management. A complete WordPress replacement therefore needs a CMS decision. The content can remain in headless WordPress or move to Sanity, Contentful, another headless CMS, or a repository-based system.
Any platform migration can affect organic visibility because URLs, rendered HTML, internal links, metadata, canonicals, structured data, performance, and crawl behavior may change. Risk is reduced by benchmarking the current site, mapping every indexable URL, validating staging, using permanent redirects where necessary, and monitoring production after launch.
Raze inventories the WordPress REST API, database exports, custom fields, taxonomies, and media library, then maps each source field to the destination content model. Migration scripts normalize HTML, preserve slugs and dates, transfer assets, recreate relationships, and produce exception reports for content that needs manual review.
Plugins do not transfer into Astro. Each plugin is classified by the function it provides, such as forms, redirects, SEO fields, search, localization, caching, memberships, or CRM integration. That function is then rebuilt, replaced with a supported service, retained behind an API, or deliberately removed.
Timing depends on route count, content types, custom fields, plugin dependencies, design changes, integrations, localization, and CMS choice. Raze audits those variables before proposing a fixed implementation schedule. A marketing site with one content model is materially different from a multilingual publication or WooCommerce system.
We connect the CMS publishing action to the deployment workflow and test how long updates take to appear. Previews, scheduled posts, failed builds, and urgent corrections need explicit handling. Routes needing fresh data on every visit can use server rendering instead.
We assess your content, interactive features, integrations, and engineering team before recommending a framework. Astro is a useful fit for content-heavy websites with focused interactive features. A website that shares substantial application behavior with an existing Next.js product may benefit from keeping that stack.
Those features need a separate commerce or account architecture. We audit checkout, payments, customer accounts, subscriptions, and access rules before scoping the move. A content migration alone does not replace those systems.
