WordPress Migration & Rescue Services — Move to WordPress Without Losing What You’ve Built

Migrating off Squarespace, Wix, or another platform — or rescuing a broken WordPress site? Both require the same thing: technical expertise, careful planning, and someone who genuinely owns the outcome. Every migration and rescue is personally handled by founder Tim Burkart, with 25+ years of experience and zero hand-offs.

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Two services. one specialist. both built on getting it right the first time.

We handle two related but distinct WordPress challenges:

WordPress Migrations — moving your existing site onto WordPress from another platform (Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, custom systems, older WordPress builds). Whether you’re hitting platform limitations, frustrated with rising costs, or just ready for the flexibility WordPress provides, we make the move without losing your content, your design, or your SEO.

WordPress Rescues — fixing WordPress sites that are broken, neglected, compromised, or inherited from someone you’ve lost touch with. If your site is down, slow, hacked, or held together with plugins and prayers, we can diagnose, stabilize, and restore it — and document everything so you’re never stuck again.

Both services are fixed-scope, fixed-price, and personally led from start to finish.

WordPress Migration Services

If you’re on the wrong platform, you already know it. The question isn’t whether to migrate — it’s how to migrate without losing your rankings, breaking your content, or getting trapped in a months-long project. Here’s how we make it straightforward.

Squarespace to WordPress Migration

If you’ve outgrown Squarespace — hitting design limitations, frustrated with the page builder, dealing with rising costs, or simply ready for the flexibility WordPress provides — we handle the full migration with no downtime and no SEO loss.

Squarespace migrations include:

Complete content export and import (pages, blog posts, products, members)
1:1 design recreation in WordPress, or a fresh design refresh — your choice
URL structure preservation with full 301 redirect mapping
SEO metadata, alt text, and schema migration
Image optimization during transfer
DNS and email cutover coordination
Post-launch indexation verification

Wix to WordPress Migration

Wix migrations are technically more complex than Squarespace because Wix doesn’t offer clean content export. We handle the full extraction, restructuring, and rebuilding process — making it look easy from your side.

Wix migrations include:

Custom content extraction (we work around Wix’s export limitations)
Page-by-page content reconstruction in WordPress
Design recreation or refresh
URL mapping and 301 redirects to preserve SEO
Blog post migration with author, date, and category preservation
Image and media transfer with optimization
Form rebuilding in WordPress
DNS and domain transfer coordination

Webflow, Shopify, and Other Platform Migrations

We also handle migrations from Webflow, Shopify (when moving content off into a WordPress + WooCommerce setup), custom CMS systems, static HTML sites, and outdated WordPress builds. Each is scoped individually because complexity varies widely.

Common platforms we migrate from:

Webflow → WordPress
Shopify → WordPress + WooCommerce
Joomla / Drupal → WordPress
Custom-built sites → WordPress
Older WordPress installations → modern WordPress

If your platform isn’t listed, ask. We’ve migrated from most things.

Will I Lose My SEO Rankings?

This is the most common — and most justified — fear about migrating to WordPress. Done poorly, a migration can erase years of SEO work in a weekend. Done well, it often improves rankings within 30–60 days.

Here’s how we protect your SEO during a migration:

Pre-migration audit. We document every indexed URL, ranking keyword, and inbound link before we touch anything.
URL structure mapping. We design the new WordPress site’s URL structure to either mirror your existing URLs or, where changes are needed, map every old URL to its new counterpart.
301 redirect implementation. Every old URL redirects to its new home — permanently and at the server level, not via plugin.
Metadata preservation. Page titles, meta descriptions, alt text, structured data, and Open Graph tags all migrate with the content.
Internal linking rebuild. WordPress’s internal linking is reconstructed to match (or improve on) your existing structure.
Post-launch monitoring. We watch Google Search Console for the 30 days after launch — catching crawl errors, indexation issues, or ranking shifts before they become problems.

Most of our migration clients see improved rankings within 30 days of launch — usually because the new WordPress site is faster, better-structured, and easier for Google to crawl than the platform they left.

WordPress Site Rescue Services

Most rescue calls start with some version of the same sentence: “I don’t know what happened, and I can’t reach the person who built it.” Whether your site has been hacked, neglected, broken by an update, or inherited without documentation, we can diagnose, stabilize, and restore it — and make sure you’re never in this position again.

Inherited WordPress Sites

You took over a site from a previous developer, agency, employee, or contractor — and now you have to keep it running with no documentation, no clear logins, and no idea what’s installed.

Our inherited-site service includes:

Full site audit (themes, plugins, custom code, hosting, security)
Access recovery (admin credentials, hosting, DNS, email)
Documentation of everything we find
Stabilization recommendations (what to fix, replace, or remove)
Optional ongoing Care Plan handoff so you never inherit this problem again

Typical timeline: 1-2 weeks for audit and documentation

Hacked or Compromised Sites

A compromised WordPress site is an emergency — every hour the site is down or showing malware costs you traffic, customers, and (often) search rankings. We handle the full incident response.

Our hacked-site rescue includes:

Immediate site isolation and damage assessment
Malware identification and removal
Compromised file restoration from clean backups
Database cleaning and verification
Vulnerability identification and patching
Hardening (security headers, file permissions, login protection)
Google Search Console reinstatement if site was flagged
Post-incident documentation and recommendations

Typical response time: Same-day for active incidents

Broken or Neglected Sites

Maybe nobody attacked your site — it just stopped working. A failed update, an abandoned plugin, a hosting migration gone wrong, or years of accumulated technical debt finally hitting a breaking point. We diagnose and fix.

Our remediation service includes:

Root cause diagnosis (often the hardest part)
Plugin and theme cleanup
Database optimization and repair
PHP/WordPress version upgrades when safe
Performance restoration
Future-proofing recommendations

Typical timeline: 1-3 weeks depending on severity

Why choose dot832 for your migration or rescue

25+ years of WordPress and web development experience. We’ve migrated sites from platforms that don’t exist anymore. We’ve rescued sites built with techniques that were obsolete a decade ago. There’s very little we haven’t seen.

Founder-led, every project. The person reviewing your site on the assessment call is the person doing the work. No hand-offs to junior staff, no offshore contractors, no surprise team members.

Fixed-price proposals. Migrations and rescues are notorious for scope creep. Our pricing is set upfront and fixed — if a project takes us longer than expected, that’s our problem, not yours.

SEO preservation is non-negotiable. Every migration includes full URL mapping, 301 redirects, metadata migration, and 30-day post-launch monitoring. We treat your search rankings as part of the asset we’re moving.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, when done correctly. Most ranking loss from migrations comes from poor URL mapping, missing redirects, or rebuilt content that loses keyword targeting. We plan every migration around SEO preservation — full 301 redirect maps, content audits, and 30-day post-launch indexation monitoring are included as standard. Many of our migration clients see ranking improvements within 30 days due to better technical SEO foundations and faster load times.

Most migrations take 3–8 weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on platform, content volume, and design complexity. Squarespace migrations are usually faster (cleaner content export). Wix migrations take longer (Wix doesn’t offer clean export, so content must be reconstructed). Custom and legacy platforms vary widely.

Migration projects vary in cost depending on source platform, content volume, and design requirements. Rescue projects also vary. We provide fixed-price proposals after a free diagnostic assessment — no hourly billing, no scope creep.

No. We build the new site on a staging environment and launch in a coordinated cutover that typically takes minutes, not hours. You may have a brief window where DNS is propagating, but the actual transition is seamless from your visitors’ perspective.

Yes, this is one of our most common engagements. Whether you’ve lost admin credentials, source code, hosting access, or simply contact with the person who built it, we can typically regain access, document what’s there, and either stabilize the existing site or migrate you to something you fully own.

A compromised WordPress site is an emergency. We can usually respond same-day, identify the breach, remove the malware, restore from clean backups, and harden the site against future attacks. We also handle Google Search Console reinstatement if your site has been flagged.

Yes. WordPress is significantly more user-friendly to update than most platforms people migrate from. We include training and documentation at handoff, and for ongoing support, our Care Plans take maintenance off your plate entirely.

No. We work with your existing host if you have one you like. We also offer managed WordPress hosting as part of our higher-tier Care Plans for clients who prefer to consolidate.

A review of your current site, identification of migration or rescue requirements, and a written proposal with scope, timeline, and fixed price — usually within 48 hours. No commitment to proceed.

Ready to Move to WordPress? Or Rescue a Site That’s Already There?

Every migration and rescue starts with a free assessment. Tell us about your current situation, and within 72 hours you’ll have a written proposal with clear scope, fixed pricing, and a realistic timeline. No pressure to proceed. Just a clear picture of what it takes to do this right.

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