Your business has evolved. Your WordPress hasn’t. We move your website to Strapi or Payload CMS, and it comes out faster: better Core Web Vitals, fewer moving parts, and content ready for AI.
No 40-page RFP, no months of meetings. Start with the migration, add what’s been on your wishlist, and check out with a time and money estimate.
Step one to an AI-ready website. We move your WordPress website to Strapi or Payload, a CMS AI understands, with a fast Next.js frontend. Posts, pages, custom fields, redirects, and integrations included.
From your backlog: those projects that sat there for years finally ride along with your migration.
AI agents in your CMS handle the routine: meta tags, internal links, proofreading, and content gaps.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google find, cite, and recommend your content.
Turn integration spaghetti into clean, documented APIs.
Your website, finally talking to HubSpot, Salesforce, or SAP.
Core Web Vitals in the green: faster loading, stable layouts, and snappy clicks.
Five brands, ten markets, one CMS. Shared components, local freedom.
Every language, every market, managed in one place.
Redirects, metadata, schema, and sitemaps done right, so you rank higher after the move.
The redesign your brand has been waiting for.
Fix the journeys your visitors keep getting lost in.
Get your website ready for the European Accessibility Act.
Everyone knows it’s there. Nobody dares to raise it. Add yours, and tell us on the call.
Migration is step one. Once content lives in a modern CMS, AI does the rest.
We move your website to Strapi or Payload, a modern CMS that AI understands.
AI agents in your CMS do the routine for you: meta tags, internal links, proofreading, and finding content gaps.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google find, cite, and recommend your content.
Your new CMS, finally talking to the rest of your stack. Clean up the old connections and plug in the systems your sales and operations run on.
We move your website to Strapi or Payload, a modern CMS built for APIs.
Turn integration spaghetti into clean, documented APIs.
Your website, finally talking to HubSpot, Salesforce, or SAP.
You’ll get a time and cost estimate in your inbox within 3 working days. Free of charge, no commitment.
WordPress is a great place to start. The trouble begins when your website outgrows it. Almost every WordPress website we audit carries the same four problems.
WordPress runs content and presentation as one system. A headless CMS splits them, so each side can change without breaking the other.
| Topic | WordPress | Headless CMS (Strapi, Payload) |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | CMS, theme, and plugins in one PHP application | Content in the CMS, delivered by API to any frontend |
| Features | Mostly third-party plugins | Custom code and a few vetted extensions |
| Performance | Depends on the theme, plugins, and caching layers | Modern frontends like Next.js with static and edge rendering |
| Multi-site and languages | Multisite and translation plugins on top of the core | Content models built for brands, markets, and locales |
| AI and integrations | Content mixed with layout markup | Structured content over REST and GraphQL |
| Tech stack | PHP | Node.js and TypeScript |
Headless WordPress gives you a modern frontend, but you keep the WordPress admin, its plugins, and their maintenance. It’s a good first step for some teams. If plugin overload and technical debt are your real problems, a purpose-built headless CMS fixes the cause, not just the symptom.
Nothing gets lost in translation. Every part of your WordPress website has a clear home in the new CMS, and we agree on the mapping with you before a single script runs.
| In WordPress | In Strapi | In Payload |
|---|---|---|
| Posts, pages, and custom post types | Collection types and single types | Collections and globals |
| ACF fields and field groups | Fields and reusable components | Fields, groups, and arrays |
| Gutenberg blocks and page builders like Elementor | Dynamic zones, rendered as frontend components | Blocks, rendered as frontend components |
| Categories and tags | Relations to taxonomy collections | Relationship fields to taxonomy collections |
| Menus | A navigation single type | A navigation global |
| Media library | Media Library | Upload collections |
| Users and roles | Roles and permissions | Access control rules |
| Yoast or Rank Math SEO fields | An SEO component on every page | SEO fields on every page |
| WPML or Polylang translations | Built-in internationalization | Built-in localization |
| Permalinks | Slugs, plus a 301 redirect map in the Next.js frontend | Slugs, plus a 301 redirect map in the Next.js frontend |
During discovery, we go through every plugin you run. Some become features of the new CMS or frontend, some become an integration, and many simply aren’t needed anymore. Lokalise left 27 plugins behind, including WP Rocket and WebP Express.
| WordPress plugin | What replaces it |
|---|---|
| Yoast SEO, Rank Math | SEO fields in the CMS, with metadata, sitemaps, and schema generated by the frontend |
| WPML, Polylang | Built-in localization in Strapi or Payload |
| Advanced Custom Fields | Native fields in the CMS, no plugin needed |
| Elementor, WPBakery, Divi | Reusable components your editors assemble into pages |
| Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms | Forms built into the frontend, sent straight to your CRM |
| WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache | Not needed: Next.js serves static and edge-rendered pages |
| Smush, WebP Express | Built-in image optimization |
| Redirection | A redirect map managed in the frontend |
| Wordfence and other security plugins | A smaller attack surface, because the CMS admin lives apart from your public website |
Every WordPress website hides a few surprises. These are the ones we check for in every audit, so they don’t turn up on launch day.
Snippets like [gallery] or [contact-form-7] hide inside post content. Our scripts find them and turn them into structured content or components.
Elementor and WPBakery store layouts as nested markup and serialized data. We rebuild them as components instead of copying broken HTML.
Plugins store settings and fields as PHP-serialized data in the database. We unpack it and map it to clean fields.
Iframes, scripts, and inline styles pasted into posts over the years get cleaned up, so your content stays structured and AI-readable.
Links to /wp-content/uploads/ inside content get rewritten to the new media library, so no image breaks after launch.
?p=123 links, date-based permalinks, and category paths all go into the redirect map, not just your current URLs.
More than 500 pages and 200+ component variants, consolidated into one Strapi 5 instance with a Next.js frontend. Editors now manage content without developer support.
Read the Lokalise case studyEnterprise Partner for Strapi and Featured Partner for Payload, with direct lines to both teams.
Certified processes for handling your data, access, and credentials.
Every WordPress URL mapped and redirected, so your rankings make the move too.
Delivered and refined project by project, so we know where WordPress hides its surprises.
The same five phases our delivery team runs on every migration. Discovery and setup take 4.5–7.5 weeks, the build depends on your scope, and you see a working website early.
We agree on goals, scope, and who signs off, and get access to your current website. You also decide here whether to launch all at once or in parts, because that shapes every release after it.
We audit your content, templates, integrations, and SEO, design the content model and architecture, and turn it all into a backlog and a roadmap.
Strapi or Payload, a Next.js frontend from our starter, dev and staging environments, and automatic deploys. The team starts the first sprint with no blockers.
Four tracks run side by side in sprints, with a demo after each one:
Content freeze, final QA, 301 redirects, a go/no-go meeting, and the switch. We watch the first 72 hours and sign off with you.
Discovery and setup take 4.5–7.5 weeks. The build depends on your scope. Running several brands or markets? We launch them one at a time.
A single-brand WordPress website usually takes about three months from signed contract to launch. Discovery and setup take 4.5–7.5 weeks of that, and the build depends on your templates, plugins, integrations, and languages. Running several brands or markets? We launch them one at a time.
Not if the migration is done right. We map every WordPress URL, including old permalink formats, set up 301 redirects, carry over your Yoast or Rank Math metadata, and monitor rankings after launch. A faster website usually helps your Core Web Vitals, too.
Yes. Posts, pages, custom post types, ACF fields, media, categories, and translations move over by script and get checked against your WordPress source. It’s also a good moment to archive what you no longer need.
No. We can rebuild your current design on the new stack, or use the migration for a redesign. Your call.
It depends on the number of websites, templates, languages, integrations, and plugins to replace. Add what you need to the cart on this page and you get a time and cost estimate, no call needed. You get a precise price after discovery.
Answer three quick questions or grab 20 minutes with a technical consultant. Either way, you’ll know what migrating your WordPress website actually involves. Free of charge, no commitment.
Tell us where you’re starting. We come back with a rough estimate on effort and cost. No call needed.
Spend 20 minutes with one of our technical consultants. You’ll leave knowing what to watch out for when leaving WordPress, and roughly what it would cost if Notum handled it, whether you hire us or not.
