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WordPress to Astro migration —
faster, safer, AI-managed content.

Astro static + headless CMS + a natural-language editor your marketing team actually uses. Sub-1s LCP, no plugin attack surface, perfect Lighthouse, content shipped in plain English.

savings$300–$2,000/mo
build costfrom $18k
payback4–9 months
duration3–6 weeks

/audit · $3k · 1 week · creditable toward the rebuild if you proceed

Book a WordPress audit → Read the migration case study

DK's own site is built on the exact stack we ship to clients — feel free to poke around; it's the same Astro static + headless CMS pipeline.

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§ Anchor case

WordPress Escape · B2B Services Firm 4.2s → 0.9s LCP · plugin attack surface gone.

Real client, real numbers, real cutover. Name available on request after a qualifying call.

WordPress Escape · B2B Services Firm preview
"Marketing got their site back. Engineering got their Friday afternoons back."

— CTO · B2B services firm (name on request)

0.9s mobile LCP (was 4.2s)
100 Lighthouse perf · all categories
+38% organic clicks · 90 days post-cutover
$0 plugin / hosting / patch cost
Read the case study →
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§ What changes

Static replaces the runtime.

Most marketing-site WordPress installs run a full PHP server to render content that hasn't changed in weeks. Static rebuilds skip the server entirely.

Area
What we ship
What WordPress was charging for
Hosting & runtime
Static files on Vercel, Cloudflare, or your own nginx · zero PHP runtime · effectively immune to most CMS exploits
Managed WP host + plugin updates + monthly security patches
Content management
Headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful) — or a natural-language editor where marketing types in plain English and AI publishes the change
wp-admin · plugin sprawl · "the editor broke this morning"
SEO & performance
Sub-1s LCP by default · perfect Lighthouse · structured data, sitemap, robots wired in at build time
WP Rocket + Yoast + ManageWP + a CDN — and still 4s LCP
Forms & integrations
Modern form services (Web3Forms, Formspark) or your own endpoint · clean webhooks to CRM
Gravity Forms / WPForms + a pile of bridge plugins
Comments / interactive
Embed only when needed (Disqus, Giscus). Static pages otherwise — most sites don't actually need comments
Native WP comments + 5 plugins to make them tolerable
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§ Process

Audit → rebuild → cutover → handoff.

  1. [01] · Content audit

    We crawl your live WordPress, catalog every page, every template, every plugin, every form. Identify what's on the critical path versus what's legacy. Decide what survives the migration and what gets archived.

  2. [02] · Static rebuild

    Astro front-end, headless CMS for the editorial team, AI-assisted layout system. Templates ported, content migrated, redirects mapped one-to-one so SEO equity is preserved on cutover day.

  3. [03] · Cutover

    DNS swap with rollback ready. WP backed up and frozen. 301s in place for every URL. Search Console + GA4 confirmed. Lighthouse audit run before and after for receipts.

  4. [04] · Edit handoff

    Marketing team gets either CMS access or the AI prompt-driven editor. We document the publish flow, set up preview deploys for drafts, and walk them through their first three changes.

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Also worth replacing — other expensive SaaS we get clients off.

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§ Contact

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