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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: 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
  • Fresh CVEs land every week, including in the biggest page builders
  • The treadmill: plugin updates that break the layout, PHP upgrades your host forces on you, theme conflicts
  • A developer retainer just to keep the whole thing standing still
  • WordPress content exports fine, and we use that - the problem was never your content; it's the machine underneath that 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. At cutover, your domain registrar login comes through the encrypted portal vault, once.

  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 or admin access required; when a credential is needed later, you share it through the encrypted portal vault.

  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, and redirect maps. Analytics continuity and before/after measurement document the cutover. Your Google reviews stay on your Business Profile, which we reconnect to the new site. Future search positions are not guaranteed.

  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. At cutover you share your domain registrar login once, through the encrypted portal vault. 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.

Latest eligible publish undo

The latest eligible publish can be undone in the portal only when no newer conflicting change exists. This restores that publish's files, not arbitrary history.

Preview every change

Every edit gets its own unlisted 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 Machine

A full platform migration for Portland's bathtub & tile refinishing specialists, with a custom AI visualizer and clear estimate capture.

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.

Not to start. Everything on your public WordPress site is captured from the outside, the same way any visitor's browser sees it. When we do need a login, like your domain registrar at launch, you share it through the encrypted portal vault, never by email or text.

Future search positions cannot be guaranteed. The migration includes redirect maps, analytics continuity, structured data, and before/after measurement. Existing Google reviews stay on your Business Profile, and we reconnect that profile to the new site.

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 an unlisted 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 30-minute strategy session at https://www.agenticpnw.com/book or email matthew@agenticpnw.com directly. The visibility scan of your current WordPress site is free. The team reviews it and follows up with the findings and a fixed-scope proposal if there is a fit.

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