Episerver to WordPress Migration Made Easy

Your website should simplify your business operations, not complicate them. Migrating from Umbraco to WordPress can improve your site’s flexibility and reliability while significantly reducing costs.

Why choose WordPress?

✓ It’s cheaper

WordPress is an open-source platform, which means it’s free to use, unlike many proprietary platforms like Episerver that require costly licensing fees. Beyond the software itself, WordPress’s extensive library of free themes and plugins reduces the need for expensive custom development. Additionally, WordPress hosting is often more affordable, allowing you to allocate more of your budget toward growth-oriented initiatives rather than just maintaining your site.

✓ It’s the best platform for SEO

WordPress excels in SEO with its strong features. It offers built-in SEO-friendly elements such as clean permalink structures, automatic metadata, and straightforward content formatting. Plus, a variety of powerful SEO plugins, like Yoast SEO, deliver advanced tools to optimize your content, keywords, and site structure. This means you can improve your search engine rankings without requiring much technical knowledge.

✓ Scale with your business

As your business grows, your website needs to evolve with it. WordPress offers unmatched scalability through its wide ecosystem of plugins and integrations. Whether you need to add e-commerce functionality, expand your content library, or improve security, WordPress can easily adjust to your growing needs without requiring a complete overhaul of your site.

✓ It’s really simple to use

One of WordPress’s strongest advantages is its user-friendly back-end. The intuitive dashboard makes it easy for anyone to manage and update their site, from uploading content to customizing design elements. This simplicity reduces the learning curve, allowing you and your team to focus on running your business rather than dealing with complex website management tasks.

Our simple 3-step migration process

Our engineers follow a secure process to transfer your data from Episerver to WordPress, ensuring that all your data and SEO integrity are preserved.

1. We build your custom WordPress template

The first step in migrating from Episerver to WordPress is creating a custom WordPress template tailored to your business needs. This involves working closely with you to understand your brand’s visual identity, functional requirements, and user experience goals. Unlike off-the-shelf themes, a custom template ensures that your new WordPress site not only matches your current design but also improves on it by leveraging WordPress’s vast customization capabilities. This includes optimizing for mobile responsiveness, integrating modern design trends, and ensuring compatibility with the latest WordPress updates and plugins.

2. We extract your data from Episerver

Once your WordPress template is ready, the next step is to carefully extract all your data from Episerver. This involves exporting your content, including pages, posts, images, metadata, and any custom fields, ensuring nothing is left behind. We also map the data structures from Episerver to WordPress, which is crucial for maintaining content relationships, such as tags, categories, and internal links. This process is meticulous to ensure that all data is captured accurately, preserving the integrity of your content during the migration.

3. We import your data into WordPress

After successfully extracting your data, we proceed to import it into your new WordPress site. This step involves more than just a simple data transfer, it requires careful reconfiguration to ensure that all content is properly integrated into the new WordPress structure. We handle everything from setting up your WordPress database to importing your content and configuring your SEO settings, including 301 redirects and meta tags. Post-import, we thoroughly test the site to ensure that all content is correctly displayed, functionality is intact, and SEO elements are preserved. This guarantees a seamless transition, with no loss of data or search engine rankings.

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Examples of our work

Don’t just take our word for it! Take a look at some of our recent projects to see how we can add value to your business website, whether you’re looking for a brand new site, to customize or migrate your existing site, or you’re after cutting-edge functionality.

Thinking about migrating from Umbraco to WordPress? Our guide on Umbraco to WordPress migration will show you how to simplify the process and make the transition seamless.