Move from WordPress to a platform built for selling.
We migrate WordPress and WooCommerce stores to Shopify with no data loss and no drop in rankings. Products, content, customers and redirects all handled from start to finish.
WordPress is built for publishing. Shopify is built for ecommerce. There is a difference.
WordPress handles content well. But ecommerce on WordPress means WooCommerce, and WooCommerce means plugins, hosting decisions, security updates, performance tuning and ongoing developer dependency for things that should be simple. For brands where the shop is the business, that overhead is hard to justify.
Shopify is purpose-built for ecommerce. Checkout, payments, shipping, inventory and customer management are core to the platform, not added on top. The move typically simplifies your stack, reduces your ongoing costs and lets your team operate the store without constant developer involvement.
Blog posts, pages and media. All of it transferred cleanly.
Your WordPress content is not left behind when you move to Shopify. Blog posts and articles are migrated to Shopify's native blog, with all metadata and internal links updated to reflect the new URL structure. Product pages, landing pages and other content are rebuilt on Shopify with the same information architecture. Media is transferred and relinked correctly.
Years of organic equity do not have to vanish in the switch.
WordPress sites often carry significant SEO value built up over years of content. We protect all of it. Every URL is mapped to its Shopify equivalent and 301 redirects are in place before anything goes live. Meta titles, descriptions, structured data and canonical tags are all carried across. We run a full pre-launch crawl and monitor rankings and traffic in the weeks following go-live.
Common questions about WordPress to Shopify migration
WordPress is a content management system first. Ecommerce is something that has been layered on top via WooCommerce and plugins. For brands where selling is the primary purpose of the site, Shopify is purpose-built for it. Checkout, payments, inventory, shipping, customer accounts and integrations are all designed for ecommerce from the ground up rather than bolted on.
Blog posts, pages and media are all migrated to Shopify. Shopify has a built-in blog that handles most content requirements cleanly. Where you rely heavily on WordPress page builder layouts or custom post types, we assess the best approach for replicating that content in Shopify before we begin.
Yes, if the migration is handled correctly. We audit your full WordPress URL structure, map every page and post to its Shopify equivalent and implement all 301 redirects before launch. Meta data, structured data and internal links are all transferred. We run a full crawl before go-live and monitor performance after the switch.
If your WordPress site includes a WooCommerce shop, all product data, customer accounts and order history come with you. We migrate everything from the WooCommerce database to Shopify and validate it before launch.
A content-only migration for a WordPress site without WooCommerce typically runs 6 to 10 weeks. If the site includes a full WooCommerce shop with customer data and integrations, allow 10 to 16 weeks. We give you a clear timeline at discovery.
Yes, this is technically possible with a subdirectory or subdomain setup, though it adds complexity. Most clients find it cleaner to move everything to Shopify and use its native blog. We will advise the right approach based on how central the blog content is to your organic traffic.
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Tell us about your WordPress site, how you use it today and what you need the new Shopify store to do. We will scope the migration and give you a clear view of what is involved.