Migrations
Move to WordPress Without Losing Rankings
Platform-by-platform guides to moving a site to WordPress: exporting content, mapping URLs, redirects and checking rankings afterwards.
Website builders 5
- Moving a GoDaddy Website Builder site to WordPressGoDaddy's builder has no export. How to collect pages, /blog/f/ posts and store items, map them to WordPress URLs and redirect before changing GoDaddy DNS.
- How to migrate Squarespace to WordPress with its XML exportSquarespace exports one blog and basic pages as WordPress XML. What it leaves out, how to map dated /blog/ URLs, and where your 301s must run after the move.
- Migrating from Webflow to WordPress: CMS collections, folders and 301sWebflow exports CMS collections as CSV but not as WordPress content. How to import them, match collection and folder URLs, and replace Webflow's 301 rules.
- Weebly to WordPress: moving .html pages and blog posts safelyMove a Weebly site to WordPress: what the site archive and /1/feed give you, how to redirect .html pages and old /1/post/ blog links, and what to test after.
- Moving from Wix to WordPress: export limits, /post/ URLs and redirectsWix has no page or blog export. How to rebuild on WordPress, map /post/ and /product-page/ URLs, and put 301s where they still run after DNS moves.
Blogging platforms 5
- Blogger to WordPress: Takeout backups, .html permalinks and ?m=1Move Blogger to WordPress: the Takeout feed.atom backup, importers that read it, a permalink that keeps /yyyy/mm/post.html, and the blogspot.com limit.
- Ghost to WordPress: converting the JSON export and keeping tag and author URLsMove a Ghost site to WordPress: convert the JSON export, copy images and SEO fields, keep /slug/, /tag/ and /author/ paths, and rebuild redirects.yaml rules.
- Leaving Medium for WordPress: story IDs, canonical links and custom domainsMove Medium stories to WordPress: convert the HTML export, handle slug-plus-ID URLs, and set canonical links on medium.com stories that can never redirect.
- Substack to WordPress: importing the export ZIP and keeping /p/ links aliveMove a Substack newsletter to WordPress: what the export ZIP holds, the Substack Importer plugin, keeping /p/ URLs, and why the custom domain decides SEO.
- Moving a Tumblr blog to WordPress: numeric post IDs, reblogs and mediaMove Tumblr to WordPress with the Tumblr Importer or the export ZIP, decide what to do with reblogs, and redirect /post/ID/slug URLs keyed on the post ID.
Ecommerce and other CMSs 2
- Joomla to WordPress: importing articles and redirecting SEF and index.php URLsMove Joomla to WordPress with FG Joomla to WordPress, then map Joomla's SEF, ID-prefixed and index.php?option= URLs to WordPress permalinks with 301s.
- Shopify to WooCommerce: product CSVs, /products/ URLs and store redirectsMove a Shopify store to WooCommerce: what the product CSV carries, importing variants, matching /products/ and /collections/ URLs, and redirects at DNS time.