We move your WordPress site to Next.js, simplify the hosting and plugin setup, and give your team a way to make changes with Claude. Your content, URLs, and SEO setup carry over. Try the new site before we switch.
Share your WordPress URL and what you want to improve. In a 30-minute working session, we'll map what carries over, which plugin features you still need, and what the new setup would cost to run.
Strategy, design, content migration, Next.js engineering, technical SEO, and launch handled by the same senior team.
A WordPress to Next.js migration is not a theme conversion. It is a controlled transfer of routes, content, functionality, measurement, and editorial responsibility into a new production system.
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.
Next.js is the application framework, not the content management system. We decide whether WordPress remains as a headless CMS or whether content moves to a different platform, then define the data and preview workflow around that choice.
The approved experience is rebuilt as maintainable components with server-rendered content, responsive behavior, accessible interactions, analytics, forms, CRM connections, and production hosting configured around the actual site.
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.
Your WordPress site stays live while we build and test its replacement. You review the migrated site and try the publishing workflow before approving the switch.
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 model, specify Next.js routes and rendering behavior, map old fields to new fields, document redirect rules, and agree what is retained, consolidated, rebuilt, or retired.
Build the Next.js site on a separate preview while WordPress stays live. Migrate content, assets, internal links, authorship, dates, slugs, and SEO data so you can review the working replacement.
Your team tries editing and publishing. We compare route inventories, check links, forms, tracking, metadata, structured data, mobile behavior, and performance, then rehearse the DNS, hosting, cache, and rollback sequence before you approve the cutover.
Deploy the Next.js site, verify production headers and redirects, submit the canonical sitemap, watch indexing and crawl errors, and resolve launch-only issues against live evidence.
A WordPress migration is complete when the new site is publishable, measurable, crawlable, and maintainable, not when the homepage looks finished.
These are implementation constraints from the official WordPress and Next.js documentation. They are why content, redirects, and metadata are treated as first-class migration work.
The WordPress REST API defines endpoints for posts, pages, revisions, categories, tags, taxonomies, media, users, post types, settings, themes, and other resources. A complete migration has to decide which of those resources still matter.
Source: WordPress REST API referenceNext.js can define source and destination patterns in next.config.js. Permanent redirects use HTTP 308, which tells clients and search engines to cache the redirect while preserving the request method.
Source: Next.js redirects documentationNext.js supports static or dynamic metadata plus file conventions for robots.txt, sitemap.xml, Open Graph images, Twitter images, favicons, and icons. Those outputs still need to be mapped and verified during migration.
Source: Next.js metadata documentationThe deliverable is a production Next.js 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 Next.js codebase, deployment configuration, migration logic, and technical documentation.
Best for teams moving because WordPress has become hard to maintain, slow to change, difficult to govern, or disconnected from the rest of the product stack.
The site relies on a brittle theme, an opaque builder, overlapping plugins, or specialist maintenance. We compare today's hosting and plugin renewals with the proposed setup so you can judge whether moving is worth it.
The next version needs shared authentication, product data, experiments, CRM logic, localization, account-aware experiences, or engineering patterns that no longer fit the current WordPress build.
Performance budgets, structured content, testable components, deployment previews, version control, and explicit ownership now matter more than retaining the current theme and plugin model.
We benchmark the current site and compare Lighthouse performance on the migrated preview. You can assess the improvement alongside the links, forms, and publishing workflow before switching.
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Direct answers to the questions buyers ask when evaluating a WordPress to Next.js migration agency, architecture, scope, search risk, timeline.
Yes. We build your Next.js site alongside the current WordPress site, which stays live during the rebuild. You can review the migrated content and try editing and publishing before approving the switch. We check links, forms, tracking, SEO, and the rollback plan before cutover.
A WordPress to Next.js migration moves a website's front end from a WordPress theme or page builder into a Next.js application. 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 Next.js 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 Next.js application.
Not by itself. Next.js 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 Next.js. 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 can set up a codebase where your team uses Claude to make changes, review them in a preview, and publish approved updates. We agree which changes belong in the CMS and which need code review, then let your team try that workflow before switching. AI-generated changes still need checks for content, layout, functionality, and SEO.
Small, straightforward migrations start at $2k. We quote a fixed migration price after checking content volume, routes, plugin features, integrations, design changes, and publishing needs. We also map the new hosting, CMS, and service costs so you can compare recurring bills. Keeping WordPress as a headless CMS retains some WordPress maintenance costs.
