Migration
Leave WordPress without losing your rankings
We migrated our own site off WordPress and Elementor. We know precisely where it goes wrong, because we documented every step of ours: the redirect chain we caught with curl that the documentation told us would not exist, the metadata we froze on launch day, the traffic dip we expected and briefed everyone about in advance.
Who this is for
You are probably here because
Your WordPress site is slow, and every plugin you remove breaks something.
You want a modern stack but you cannot afford to lose the search traffic you have.
Someone quoted you a rebuild and never mentioned redirects.
What you get
Everything below is in the scope, not the upsell
A full inventory before anything is touched
Sixteen months of Search Console data by page, a complete crawl of the live site, your Yoast titles and descriptions pulled from the database, and your real modified dates. That union is the redirect map. A CMS export alone always misses URLs Google indexed and you forgot.
A one-hop redirect map, tested with curl
Every legacy URL resolves in exactly one hop to a 200. We verify it on staging in list mode before DNS moves, not after. Chains are the single most common post-migration audit finding.
Metadata frozen on launch day
Your existing titles and descriptions ship unchanged, even the ones we would like to rewrite. Improve them after Search Console confirms recovery. Otherwise you cannot tell a metadata mistake from a normal migration dip.
WordPress cruft handled
Date permalinks, category and tag archives, author pages, feeds, attachment pages, `?p=` links, `wp-admin` and the default hello-world post nobody remembers publishing.
Structured data rebuilt, not lost
Organization, WebSite, Article and breadcrumbs. Not FAQPage (Google dropped FAQ rich results on 7 May 2026) and never a self-serving star rating, which Google ignores by policy.
Six weeks of monitoring after launch
Weekly Search Console review with a plain-English note. Expect a dip in week one. The failure signal is not the dip: it is no recovery trend by week four.
Proof
Where we have done this before
Real projects. Every claim on their pages is one we can evidence.
FrameXLabs
FrameXLabs: platform build and analytics
A performance-focused platform build with a complete analytics and conversion-tracking stack.
- React
- GA4
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare
Ottenheimer Publishers
Ottenheimer Publishers: e-commerce rebuild
A mobile-first e-commerce rebuild with a streamlined checkout and proper analytics.
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- GA4
- Piwik PRO
How it works
Four steps, with dates attached
- 01
Scope
3–5 daysA 20-minute call, then a written scope with fixed price and dates. Free.
- 02
Design
1–3 weeksWireframes, then interface design you sign off before anyone writes code.
- 03
Build
3–12 weeksWeekly demos on a live staging URL. You see progress, not status reports.
- 04
Launch & support
OngoingDeployment, monitoring, and a named person who answers you.
Why us
The four things every US buyer asks, answered up front
These are the questions that decide whether an agency gets hired. Almost nobody answers them on their website. We do, before you have to ask.
Open 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Friday
Our working day, on a calendar you can book — not "we're flexible". Calls, screen shares and decisions happen inside it, and anything urgent outside it has a named person and a phone number rather than a shared inbox.
You never pay for work you have not seen
An advance to begin, then one payment per phase, each scoped and approved in writing before it starts, demonstrated before it is invoiced. Full code and IP ownership transfers on final payment. It is in the contract, not just on this page.
A US contract, under US law
Your agreement is with LabTechCrew LLC, a Texas limited liability company, governed by Texas law. One entity to hold accountable.
You pay us like any US vendor
ACH, domestic or international wire, card through Stripe, Square, PayPal, Wise or a company check. Invoiced in USD with a W-9 on file. Nothing for your finance team to escalate.
FAQ
WordPress → Next.js Migration: questions
How much traffic will I lose?
Plan for a 10–30% dip in the first week and a return to baseline by week four to six. That range holds on clean migrations. Image search recovers more slowly than web search and there is no published figure for how much slower. We tell you that up front rather than after.
Do I keep my URLs?
Wherever possible, yes, including the trailing slashes. Changing a URL for aesthetics costs equity for nothing. We only change an address when the old one is genuinely broken or duplicated, and then it gets a 301 and stays redirected permanently.
Can you prove you can do this?
We did it to ourselves and wrote down the numbers. Ask us for the before-and-after Core Web Vitals and the Search Console recovery curve for labtechcrew.com — it is the same migration you are buying.
Tell us about your wordpress → next.js migration project
A 20-minute call, then a written scope with a fixed price and dates. Free, and we sign a mutual NDA first if you want one.