Agentic PNW

Migrating from WordPress

WordPress Isn't a Website. It's a Maintenance Job.

Twenty-plus plugins to update, a database to protect, a page builder slowing every page, and a security bulletin every week. We rebuild WordPress sites as static Next.js platforms where none of that exists.

No account access needed until launch day.

You're paying to maintain a target.

A typical WordPress site runs 20 to 30 plugins, and every one of them is code written by someone else, running on your server, with your customers' data behind it. Plugin and theme vulnerabilities are the dominant way WordPress sites get breached, and fresh CVEs land every week, including in the biggest page builders.

Then there's the treadmill: plugin updates that break the layout, PHP upgrades your host forces on you, theme conflicts, and a developer retainer just to keep the whole thing standing still.

To be fair: WordPress content exports fine, and we use that. The problem was never your content. It's that the machine running it needs constant feeding. A static site needs none.

The WordPress Ceiling

Documented platform limitations, researched August 2026. None of these are fixable from inside WordPress.

The plugin attack surface

Most WordPress sites run 20 to 30 plugins, and plugin and theme vulnerabilities are the platform's dominant breach vector. Even flagship tools ship CVEs: Elementor had a cross-site scripting vulnerability disclosed in May 2026. Every plugin you install is a door you have to watch.

The maintenance treadmill

Core updates, plugin updates, theme updates, PHP version upgrades, and the layouts they break when they land. Skip them and you're exposed; run them and something occasionally snaps. Either way, you're paying in time or a retainer.

Page-builder bloat

Elementor and Divi generate deep DOM trees and load large CSS and JS bundles on every page. Both have shipped 'anti-bloat' features for years, which tells you the bloat is structural, not a bug.

Content lock-in, builder edition

Divi stores your page content inside its own shortcodes. Switch themes or builders and your content comes out wrapped in markup no other tool reads.

Hosting is your problem

Backups, uptime, SSL renewal, server security, database optimization: on WordPress, all of it is yours to manage or pay someone to manage.

Custom AI tooling fights the stack

Embedding a real AI visualizer or custom lead pipeline in WordPress means more plugins, more server code, and more attack surface. On an owned Next.js codebase it's just... the site.

WordPress vs. a Platform You Own

Agentic PNW + Vercel

  • No plugins to patch or breach
  • No database or admin panel to attack
  • Zero ongoing maintenance burden
  • Full, editable schema.org graph
  • Custom AI lead tools
  • You own the code, repo, and hosting

WordPress

  • No plugins to patch or breach
  • No database or admin panel to attack
  • Zero ongoing maintenance burden
  • Full, editable schema.org graphPlugin-dependent
  • Custom AI lead toolsVia more plugins
  • You own the code, repo, and hostingSort of: plus the server to run it

How We Clone Your Site, Without Your Password

Your public website is the blueprint. We never need your WordPress login; the only credential involved is your domain registrar, once, at cutover.

  1. 1

    We crawl your public website

    Everything we need is already public: every page, image, font, color, and behavior is captured with browser automation, the same way a visitor's browser sees it. No login, no admin access, no password sharing.

  2. 2

    Pixel-faithful rebuild into your own GitHub repo

    Your site is rebuilt page-by-page as a hand-written Next.js codebase in a private GitHub repository that belongs to you. Faithful replica or full redesign, your call. Rip City Construction was a 17-page pixel-faithful replica; Bathroom Surface Solutions was a 52-page rebuild.

  3. 3

    SEO remediation and full schema stack

    The rebuild fixes what the platform couldn't: complete LocalBusiness and Service schema, canonical architecture, duplicate-content cleanup, redirects mapped for every URL. Your rankings, reviews, and backlinks keep working untouched.

  4. 4

    Deployed on Vercel, then DNS cutover

    The finished site deploys to Vercel's global edge network and you review a live preview first. The only credential we ever need is your domain registrar, once, at cutover. Zero downtime.

Where Your New Site Lives

Every migration lands on Vercel, the infrastructure built by the makers of Next.js. What that buys you:

Nothing to hack

A static site has no server-side code, no database, and no plugins: the three things virtually every hacked small-business site gets breached through. There is no WordPress admin panel to brute-force because there is no admin panel.

Nothing to patch

No plugin updates, no PHP version upgrades, no theme conflicts, no maintenance retainer just to keep the site alive. The code that ships is the code that runs, unchanged, until you ask for a change.

Speed measured at the edge

Every page is prerendered and served from Vercel's global CDN, milliseconds from your customer. Fast pages feed Core Web Vitals, which Google uses as a ranking signal, and they convert better on phones.

Instant rollback

Every deployment is immutable and kept. If anything ever looks wrong, the previous version is one click away. Try that on a page builder.

Preview every change

Every edit gets its own private preview URL before it touches your live site. You approve changes by looking at them, not by hoping.

Enterprise defaults, small-business price

Automatic HTTPS, DDoS protection, and global failover come standard on Vercel. Hosting for a typical client site runs free to a few dollars a month, not a $30+ builder subscription forever.

Every WordPress migration starts with a free visibility scan of your current site.

You own 100% of everything.

The code, the content, the design, the domain, the hosting account. If you ever walk away, everything walks with you. No rental websites, no hostage platforms, no “you can’t take it with you.” Period.

How we price

We price like contractors, not consultants: a fixed scope at a fixed price, in writing, before work begins. Half upfront, half at launch.

The price depends on page count and whether you want a faithful replica or a full redesign, which is exactly what the free audit determines. After launch, hosting typically runs free to a few dollars a month: no builder subscription, no maintenance retainer.

  • Fixed scope, fixed price
  • In writing before work
  • No open-ended retainers

Migrations We've Already Run

Bathroom Surface Solutions websiteLive

Home Services

From Aging Wix Site to a 52-Page Lead-Generation Platform

A full platform migration for Portland's bathtub & tile refinishing specialists, live, ranked, and capturing leads with a custom AI visualizer.

Read the story
Bathroom Surface Solutions
Rip City Construction websiteLive

Construction & Remodeling

A Full Squarespace Migration, Rebuilt and Live in One Day

Seventeen pages replicated, remediated, and cut over, with the duplicate-content problems of the old site engineered out.

Read the story
Rip City Construction

Straight Answers

You don't need us for the content, and we do use your export where it helps. What you're hiring is the rebuild: your pages, design, and content re-engineered as a static site with no plugins, no database, no admin panel, and a full schema stack, deployed on infrastructure you own.

Your blog comes across as real pages with every URL preserved or redirected. Features your site actually uses (forms, galleries, bookings) get rebuilt as owned code or integrated properly, and you approve the replacement plan in writing before we build.

No. Everything on your public WordPress site is captured from the outside, the same way any visitor's browser sees it. The only credential we ever need is your domain registrar, once, when we flip DNS at launch.

No. Migration engineering is the core of what we do: every URL preserved or redirected, analytics continuity maintained, structured data upgraded. Your Google Business Profile, backlinks, and citations keep working untouched.

Yes. Rip City Construction was a pixel-faithful replica of their old site with the technical foundation rebuilt underneath. Faithful replica or full redesign, your call, and you review everything on a private preview before it goes live.

You do: the code in your own GitHub repo, the content, the domain, the hosting account. If you ever leave, everything goes with you. No hostage situations, no rental websites.

A fixed scope at a fixed price, in writing, before work begins. Half upfront, half at launch. After that, hosting typically runs free to a few dollars a month instead of a builder subscription.

Book a strategy session at https://www.agenticpnw.com/contact or email matthew@agenticpnw.com directly. The visibility scan of your current WordPress site is free, and you'll have findings plus a fixed-scope proposal within 48 hours.

On a different platform?

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Your Website Should Be Your Best Salesperson.

Book a strategy session. We'll audit your current presence live on the call and show you exactly what's possible: big-agency quality on a small-business budget.