Move off WordPress

Not if the migration is done properly, and the redirects are the reason. Every old address points at its new home, the titles and descriptions come across, and the structure stays recognisable to a crawler. I watch search visibility for the first month afterwards and tell you if anything moves.

Yes, if you want to. Plenty of moves off WordPress are about what is underneath rather than how it looks, and rebuilding the same design on solid foundations is a perfectly good outcome. If you would rather rethink it while everything is open, that is the moment to do it.

Most of them go, because most of them exist to patch something WordPress does not do well. Forms, SEO settings, and redirects are all part of the build. If a plugin is doing something genuinely specific, tell me on the call and I will say plainly whether it can move. Where those plugins are running joining and renewals, or appointments, that part is a membership system or a booking system in its own right and gets scoped as one.

You do, in your own account, and I set it up. There is nothing to patch, nothing to update on a Sunday, and no plugin licence to renew. If you would rather I kept an eye on it, that is the monthly arrangement.

Most sites take four to six weeks, and the number of pages matters less than the number of templates hiding among them. Forty pages usually turn out to be five or six shapes. Your content and approvals are the other half of the timeline, which is why the date comes out of the first call rather than off a price list.

No, and after a fortnight nobody asks to go back. What replaces it is an editor built around the things you publish, so there are fewer places to get lost and no way to break a layout by dragging something into the wrong column. I train whoever will use it and leave notes they will actually read.

No. Selling products online is a different job with different problems, and I do not build shops. If the shop is the important half, you want someone who does that properly. If it is a handful of products bolted onto a marketing site, say so on the call and I will tell you honestly whether it is worth separating them.

Almost always, because the attack surface goes with it. WordPress sites are compromised through outdated plugins, weak admin logins, and abandoned themes, and a rebuilt site has no plugins, no admin login on the public internet, and nothing executing on the server when a page is served. What remains is your DNS and your email, which are worth hardening separately.

Usually managed WordPress hosting, a page builder licence, an SEO plugin licence, a forms plugin, a backup plugin, and a security plugin. Add those up before the call, because the annual total is often most of the hosting cost of the new site, and sometimes all of it.

Better than they do now. WordPress sends mail from the web server by default, which is why contact form notifications land in spam. Forms on the rebuilt site send through a proper mail service, from your own domain, with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC set up so the message is authenticated and reaches the inbox.

There is nothing to apply on the site itself, which is the point. No plugins, no PHP version to keep ahead of, no theme updates. The dependencies live in the codebase and are updated when the site is next worked on, and if you want that watched between projects, that is what the monthly support covers.