dot832.com, LLC

Free WordPress Migration Assessment — Know What It Takes Before You Commit

Whether you’re moving to WordPress from another platform or rescuing a site that’s broken, hacked, or inherited from someone you’ve lost touch with — every project starts with a clear understanding of scope, cost, and timeline. Submit your details, and Tim will personally review your situation and send a written scoping document within 2–3 business days.

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A Real scoping exercise, not a sales call

Most agencies treat the first conversation as a sales opportunity — gather just enough information to send a generic pitch, push hard for a meeting, and follow up relentlessly until you either convert or block them.

We don’t operate that way.

A dot832 migration assessment is a genuine scoping exercise. Tim personally reviews your situation, identifies what a migration or rescue would actually involve, and delivers a written document covering project scope, rough pricing range, realistic timeline, and the key considerations for your specific case.

The assessment is useful whether or not you become a dot832 client. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so. If your situation is straightforward enough to handle without us, we’ll tell you. We’d rather give you a real picture of what’s involved than waste your time with a pitch.

Migration assessment vs. website audit — which do you need?

The Free Website Audit is a diagnostic review of an existing WordPress site. It tells you what’s working, what isn’t, and what to prioritize. Best for WordPress site owners who want an honest expert assessment of where they stand.

The Free Migration Assessment (this page) is a project-scoping exercise for sites being moved to WordPress or rescued from a broken or compromised state. It tells you what a migration or rescue would involve, roughly what it would cost, and how long it would take.

Request a Migration Assessment if:

  • You’re on Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, or another platform and considering a move to WordPress
  • Your WordPress site has been compromised, broken, or neglected and you need it rescued
  • You’ve inherited a WordPress site from a previous developer, employee, or agency
  • You want to know what a migration or rescue project would actually cost before committing

Request a Website Audit instead if:

  • You already have a working WordPress site and want a comprehensive diagnostic review
  • You’re considering a redesign or rebuild and want an objective opinion before committing
  • You’re trying to identify why your site is slow, insecure, or underperforming

If you’re not sure which fits your situation, submit either form and tell us — we’ll route you to the right offer.

What the assessment includes

Every assessment delivers the same structured scoping document, tailored to your situation. The document typically runs 3–5 pages and covers:

  1. Project Type and Approach A clear summary of what you’re trying to accomplish and the recommended approach — full migration, partial migration with design refresh, site rescue, remediation, or a combination.
  2. Scope Overview What the project includes, what it doesn’t, and any complexity factors specific to your situation (platform limitations, content volume, custom functionality, compliance requirements).
  3. Rough Pricing Range A realistic pricing range for the project based on what we can determine from your site and your form responses. Final pricing requires deeper discovery, but the range gives you a clear sense of investment before committing further.
  4. Timeline Estimate A realistic timeline range from kickoff to launch, including key milestones and what can affect the schedule.
  5. SEO and Content Considerations For migrations: how we’d preserve your search rankings, what URLs would change, and how content would transfer. For rescues: what state your existing SEO is in and what recovery would involve.
  6. Recommended Next Steps What to do next, whether that’s engaging us for the project, addressing specific issues first, considering an alternative approach, or simply taking more time to plan.

Optional follow-up: a 30-minute walkthrough call to discuss the scoping document, answer questions, and clarify next steps. No sales pressure — most calls don’t end with a signed engagement.

Who Should Request an Assessment

Platform migrations:

  • Squarespace owners hitting design limitations or rising costs
  • Wix owners frustrated with platform lock-in or extraction difficulty
  • Webflow owners scaling beyond what the platform supports cost-effectively
  • Shopify owners considering a WordPress + WooCommerce setup for content-heavy or service-driven businesses
  • Older WordPress site owners ready for a modern rebuild
  • Custom CMS or hand-coded sites moving to a maintainable platform

Site rescues:

  • WordPress sites that have been hacked or compromised
  • Sites you’ve inherited without documentation, credentials, or context
  • Sites that are broken, slow, or barely functional after years of neglect
  • Sites where the previous developer or agency has disappeared
  • Sites with accumulating technical debt you’re not sure how to address

This assessment isn’t the right starting point if:

  • You already have a working WordPress site and want a diagnostic review (use the Free Website Audit instead)
  • You’re considering moving away from WordPress to another platform (we specialize in moving sites to WordPress, not away from it)
  • Your site is actively down or compromised right now (contact us directly — emergency rescues are handled as paid same-day engagements, not via this form)
  • You’re shopping for the cheapest possible quote (we’re not the cheapest option in the market, and the assessment will reflect that)

How it works

  1. You submit the form. Site URL, current platform, what you’re trying to accomplish, basic contact information, and a brief description of your situation. The more context you provide, the more useful the scoping document.
  2. We confirm within one business day. You’ll receive an email confirmation, usually within hours. If we can’t deliver on the offer — capacity, fit, or anything else — we’ll tell you immediately rather than have you waiting.
  3. Tim personally reviews your situation. Manual review of your current site, your platform’s specific considerations, and the scope implications of your goals. Typically 1–2 hours of focused expert time.
  4. You receive the written scoping document. Delivered within 2–3 business days, sent as a PDF. Clear, plain-English, and specific to your situation.
  5. (Optional) Walkthrough call. If you want to discuss the document, we’ll schedule a 30-minute call. No sales pressure — many calls end with us recommending you wait, or pointing you to a different solution entirely.

Why a rough range instead of a fixed quote?

Migration and rescue projects vary in cost more than almost any other WordPress service — sometimes 5x between similar-sounding projects. A site with 30 pages and clean content migrates very differently than a site with 300 pages of inconsistently-structured legacy content. A Wix site with a custom checkout takes meaningful work to recreate; a brochure Squarespace site does not.

A scoping document with a rough range is honest about that variance. We can determine enough from your site and your responses to commit to a realistic range, but firmer pricing requires the deeper discovery that happens when you engage us — full content inventory, hosting and domain audit, integration mapping, and the conversations that surface requirements forms can’t capture.

When you do engage us, the final fixed-price proposal lands within the range provided in the assessment. We don’t surprise clients with higher numbers after they’ve committed.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, really free. No credit card, no obligation, no auto-enrollment. The “catch” — to the extent there is one — is that we’re hoping a meaningful percentage of assessment recipients eventually become clients. Most don’t, and that’s fine.

The audit is a diagnostic review of an existing WordPress site. The migration assessment is a scoping exercise for migrating to WordPress or rescuing a broken site. Different purposes, different audiences, different deliverables. See the comparison section above, or submit either form and we’ll route you to the right one if needed.

Migration and rescue scoping depends entirely on context. Platform, content volume, complexity, timeline expectations, and your specific situation all affect what’s involved. The more context you provide upfront, the more useful the scoping document — and the more confident we can be in the pricing range we commit to.

Because fixed pricing requires deeper discovery than a form can provide. A rough range based on what we can determine remotely is honest; a fixed quote at this stage would either be inflated to protect against unknowns (bad for you) or wishfully optimistic (bad for both of us). When you engage us, the deeper discovery converts the range into a fixed-price proposal that lands within it.

We’ll tell you in the scoping document. Some projects have meaningful variables we can’t determine without a conversation — in those cases, we’ll provide a wider range and clearly note what would narrow it. We’d rather be honest about uncertainty than fake confidence.

You’ll receive the document, then a single follow-up offering the optional walkthrough call. If you decline (or don’t respond), we won’t keep pursuing you. We’re not a high-pressure operation.

That’s fine — many assessment recipients are early in their decision process. The scoping document gives you concrete numbers to inform your decision rather than vague speculation. Use it however you need to. Even if you decide not to move forward right now, the document is yours to reference whenever the time is right.

This form isn’t the right path for emergencies. If your site is compromised or down, contact us directly — emergency rescues are handled as paid same-day engagements, not via this form.

No. We specialize in WordPress and only migrate sites to WordPress, not from it. If you want to leave WordPress for another platform, we’ll honestly tell you we’re not the right team — and where possible, refer you to a specialist who is.

We can scope to a realistic range — not a fixed price. Most projects fall within predictable patterns based on platform, content volume, and goals. The walkthrough call (or the deeper discovery that comes with engagement) is where uncertain edges get resolved.

Please submit them separately. Each one gets its own scoping document.

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