Migrate your content, media, users, and functionality to a new CMS with nothing left behind or broken.
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From CMS-to-CMS migration to AI-ready architecture, these fourteen capabilities cover CMS migration end to end.
Treating a CMS migration as a simple content export and import misses that content, functionality, and platform-specific features do not transfer directly between systems built on fundamentally different architectures. We manage complete CMS-to-CMS migrations, moving content and functionality from your current platform to the new one as a coordinated system move, not a partial copy that leaves gaps your team discovers only after launch.
Exporting content as flat text loses the categories, tags, and content-type relationships that gave your content structure in the first place, leaving you to rebuild that organization manually in the new CMS. We migrate pages, posts, articles, categories, tags, and custom content types with their original relationships intact, moving content with its structure preserved rather than dumping unorganized text into a new system.
Moving image files without their associated metadata, alt text, and folder organization produces a media library that technically has all the files but has lost the context that made them findable and accessible. We migrate images, documents, videos, and associated media metadata as a structured process, keeping your media library organized and accessible rather than dumping every file into one unsorted folder on the new platform.
CMS platforms structure their underlying data very differently, so a database migration is rarely a direct copy and usually requires transforming data into a schema the new CMS was actually built to use. We move and transform structured CMS data into the new database architecture, validating data integrity throughout the process rather than treating the database as a black box behind the visible content.
Losing user accounts and role permissions during a migration means every editor, contributor, and administrator has to be recreated manually, along with rebuilding whatever access structure controlled who could do what. We migrate users, roles, permissions, and account information where the source and target platforms technically support it, preserving access continuity for your team rather than starting user management over from zero.
Copying an old theme’s code into a new CMS rarely works cleanly, since templates are built around each platform’s specific architecture, and a direct copy usually breaks more than it preserves. We rebuild the presentation layer for the new CMS based on your design intent, translating templates and themes properly rather than attempting a direct copy that fights the new platform’s underlying architecture the whole way.
A migration that moves content well but leaves behind the custom plugins and modules your team actually depended on hands you a new CMS that is missing the exact functionality that made the old site useful. We recreate custom modules, plugins, extensions, and business-specific functionality for the new platform, rebuilding the features your business actually relies on rather than only migrating what a standard content export covers.
Treating SEO as something to address after a CMS migration goes live means the traffic loss has already happened by the time anyone gets around to fixing redirects and metadata. We plan SEO migration alongside the technical migration, preserving URLs, metadata, redirects, and canonical information from the start, treating SEO as a core requirement built into the migration plan rather than damage control handled after launch.
A migrated CMS that no longer talks to your CRM, analytics platform, or ecommerce system has solved one problem while creating several new ones, since disconnected integrations recreate exactly the manual work those integrations were built to eliminate. We reconnect CRM, ERP, ecommerce, analytics, and marketing automation systems as part of the migration, restoring every connection the old CMS relied on rather than leaving integration for a separate project afterward.
An organization managing multiple websites across different CMS platforms or versions accumulates inconsistent branding, duplicated maintenance work, and fragmented content that gets harder to manage with every additional site. We migrate and consolidate multi-site environments into a single, restructured CMS architecture, giving organizations one coherent system to manage rather than a scattered collection of websites each requiring separate attention and separate expertise.
A traditional CMS ties content and presentation together tightly, which becomes a real limitation the moment that content needs to power a mobile app, a customer portal, or a different frontend than the one it was originally built for. We migrate businesses to headless CMS architectures that decouple content from presentation, delivering content through APIs so the same content source can power a website today and new channels later without a rebuild.
Content that survives a migration but loses its navigation structure, taxonomy, and category relationships becomes technically present but practically unfindable, both for visitors browsing the site and for any system trying to reuse that content elsewhere. We migrate navigation, menus, taxonomy, and category hierarchies as structured content, reorganizing information so it stays findable on the website and reusable across other channels rather than existing as a flat, disconnected list of pages.
Migrating years of accumulated duplicate, outdated, and poorly structured content into a new CMS just moves the mess somewhere new rather than actually solving the content quality problems that built up over time. We use migration projects as an opportunity for content governance and cleanup, identifying and resolving duplicate and outdated content during the move, so the new CMS starts with a cleaner foundation instead of inheriting every content problem the old platform had accumulated.
A content migration that only replicates the old site’s structure misses the opportunity to prepare content for AI search, recommendations, and AI-powered experiences that increasingly depend on well-structured, clearly tagged content to work well. We restructure content during migration specifically to support AI-ready architecture, organizing content so it can support AI search, recommendation engines, and assistants later, rather than migrating a structure that will need rework the moment an AI initiative actually starts.
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Monitor performance, fix issues, and manage updates.
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