--- title: "Wordpress Migration Services, Hosting Platform Mirgrations" description: "Securely migrate your website to WordPress or transfer your WordPress site to a new host with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and SEO performance" url: https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/wordpress-migration-services/ site: "Rivmedia" published: 2026-09-04 modified: 2026-09-04 language: en-GB --- # WordPress Migration Services ## WordPress migration services without the drama. Moving from Wix to WordPress, escaping a bad host, or consolidating an ageing site? We migrate content, design, customers and rankings with the site trading the whole way through, planned like a house move, not a leap of faith. [Plan my migration](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/contact-us/) [What’s protected](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/contact-us/) ★★★★★ Rated on Trustpilot & Google *·* Zero-downtime moves → WordPress · yours Where we migrate from ## Wix to WordPress, and every other move we’re asked for Builders are fine until you outgrow their ceiling: limited SEO control, rising fees, and a site you can never take with you. We move you onto WordPress you own, and we’ve done it from just about everywhere. **→**Wix**→**Squarespace**→**Shopify**→**GoDaddy builder**→**Weebly**→**Joomla / Drupal**→**Old WordPress → new**→**Host-to-host moves The method ## Planned so trading never stops 01 ### Audit & inventory Every page, image, form, ranking and redirect mapped before anything moves. Nothing gets left behind because nothing is unlisted. 02 ### Build in parallel Your new WordPress site is built and tested on staging while the old site keeps trading, untouched. 03 ### Switch in minutes The cutover is a planned, reversible DNS switch at a quiet hour, not a weekend of downtime. 04 ### Protect the rankings One-to-one redirects, preserved URLs where possible and post-launch monitoring, so Google follows you to the new site. What’s protected ## The four things a migration must never lose A migration isn’t finished when the site loads at the new address. It’s finished when nothing of value went missing on the way. This is the checklist we’re accountable to on every move. ✓ **Your rankings** — redirect maps and preserved structure, monitored in Search Console after launch. ✓ **Your content** — pages, posts, images and forms, migrated and checked page by page. ✓ **Your customers** — accounts, orders and history for ecommerce moves, imported and reconciled. ✓ **Your email** — the classic migration casualty; DNS records handled so mail never blinks. The SEO side ## A migration done right is invisible to Google The horror stories you’ve heard, rankings halved after a replatform, almost always trace to the same mistakes: URLs changed without redirects, pages quietly dropped, metadata lost in transfer. Google follows signposts; **remove them and you vanish**. Our migrations begin with a full crawl of the old site: every URL, title and ranking recorded. That inventory becomes the redirect map, one-to-one, old address to new, no lazy catch-alls to the homepage. After cutover we monitor Search Console daily for the settling period, catching crawl errors while they’re trivia rather than trends. Builder platforms like Wix bring extra quirks, their URL structures don’t map cleanly, **which is precisely why the mapping is done by hand**. The result, done properly: a dip measured in days, then rankings that recover and typically improve, because WordPress gives us SEO control the builder never did. Two kinds of move ## Moving to WordPress, or simply moving hosting? Sometimes you just need to move web hosts, whether that’s lack of support, cost increases or simply outgrowing your environment. We move business websites to a new provider, or provide [business hosting](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/business-hosting/) and server management ourselves, minimising the risk to your SEO and marketing and ensuring no data is lost. In-depth pre-flight and post-flight checks confirm the site performs as it should in the environment you’ve chosen. The other move is off a builder altogether. Small businesses and start-ups often take the risk on free, easy builders like Wix, then discover the ceiling: zero flexibility to expand, no way to run proper technical SEO, limited scale. We redesign, rebuild and migrate from an existing platform, advise on what gives the best performance for your SEO effort, and build you a real business website that carries credibility. [Plan my migration](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/contact-us/) ✓ **Hundreds of WordPress migrations since 2006,** including hundreds of Wix to WordPress moves and many other platforms. ✓ **Secure and fast, with minimal or zero downtime,** depending on the route and providers chosen; we recommend the best one for you. ✓ **SEO focus throughout.** Every URL mapped beforehand and 301 redirects set up, so no broken links and no lost rankings. ✓ **Advice beyond the migration.** We’re extremely experienced and will tell you what your situation needs, whether that is a straight move or a redesign at the same time. ✓ **Aftercare included.** Once the move is done, our [maintenance and support](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/wordpress-maintenance-plans/) keep it running; once you use us, you won’t want to use anyone else. Platforms ## A small selection of platforms we migrate and rebuild If your platform isn’t listed, ask. If it has an export, an API or a database, we’ve almost certainly moved it before. 01 ### Wix to WordPress Our most common rebuild. Content, media and structure recreated on a platform you own, with redirects covering every old URL. 02 ### Squarespace and Weebly Design-led builders whose limits show as soon as SEO or integrations matter. We keep the look and remove the ceiling. 03 ### Webflow and CraftCMS Capable platforms that become expensive or developer-dependent to run. Migrated with templates and collections intact. 04 ### GoDaddy Website Builder A quick start that rarely scales. Rebuilt on WordPress with proper hosting and performance underneath. 05 ### Shopify to WordPress Catalogues, customers and order history moved into WooCommerce, planned so trading never stops. See [ecommerce websites](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/ecommerce-websites/). 06 ### Joomla, Drupal and legacy CMS Older systems with years of content and rankings to protect. Careful URL mapping and content clean-up are the whole job here. Straight answers ## Migration questions **How long does a migration take?** Simple brochure sites: one to two weeks including testing. Ecommerce with customers and order history: longer, planned around your trading calendar. The cutover itself is minutes at a quiet hour, whatever the size. **Will our email be affected?** No, and this is the one everyone worries about, rightly. Mail records are inventoried before anything changes and carried over exactly. Your email doesn’t blink. **Wix says we can’t export our site. Is that true?** You can’t export it as a working site, that’s the lock-in. But content, pages, images, text, products, can be extracted and rebuilt properly in WordPress, usually better structured than the builder allowed. **What happens to the old site if something goes wrong?** It stays untouched until the new site is verified live and healthy, and the DNS switch is reversible in minutes. There is no burn-the-boats moment in our process. **Do you host the site after the move?** If you’d like: fast UK business hosting with the care plan option, one supplier for the lot. If you have hosting you love, we’ll happily migrate onto it instead. **How much does it cost to migrate a WordPress site?** Every website, hosting environment and provider is different, so we quote individually based on what we see and the information you provide. Straight host-to-host moves are modest; CMS-to-WordPress rebuilds are quoted as a redesign project. **Do I need to back up my website before migration?** We take care of backups and data transfer, but we always recommend keeping a backup yourself too. However careful we are, we can’t predict the reliability of your current provider, so we take backups to be sure and like you to as well. **Should my website be live to be migrated?** It certainly helps, but if you have backups or any kind of history we can usually recover or rebuild as close to the original as you want. **How do you handle broken links or missing pages after the move?** We map every URL beforehand and set up 301 redirects wherever needed, so there are no broken links and your rankings are preserved. **Can I keep my current design after migrating?** Yes. We can replicate your existing design or take the opportunity to refresh the look while keeping your brand identity intact. **What if my website has custom functionality?** We handle custom features during the migration and test them thoroughly, so every bespoke element works flawlessly on the new WordPress platform. ## Move without missing a beat. Tell us where your site lives now and what’s pushing you to move. We’ll reply within one working day with a migration plan and fixed price. [Plan my migration](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/contact-us/) [Ask a question first](https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/contact-us/) Call us[01553 341 334](tel:01553341334) Email[contact@rivmedia.co.uk](mailto:contact@rivmedia.co.uk) Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm · Kings Lynn, Norfolk · Replies within one working day. --- Source: https://www.rivmedia.co.uk/wordpress-migration-services/