Passionfruit Design

Moving your website off WordPress

WordPress is widely used and suits many organisations. If yours has become slow, hard to update or a worry to keep secure, I can move it to something smaller that your team can still edit.

Who it is for

Organisations whose WordPress site has become hard to live with: updates that break things, add-ons nobody remembers installing, pages that load slowly.

If your site works and you are happy with it, stay where you are. I will tell you so.

What you get

  • Your pages, posts and pictures moved across.
  • A simple editing screen your team can use.
  • Fewer moving parts, so there is less to update and less to go wrong.
  • Your web addresses kept or redirected, so existing links still work.

How it works

I look at what your site does today and what your team needs from it. I build the new site alongside the old one, move the content across and check it with you.

Then I switch over, with the old addresses pointing to the new pages.

What it costs to run

A smaller site has less to host and less to look after.

I do not list prices here yet. Tell me what you need and I will tell you what it costs to build and what it costs to run.

Questions people ask

Do we have to leave WordPress?

No. It is widely used and suits many organisations. Moving makes sense when the site has become slow, hard to update or hard to keep secure. If it has not, I will say so.

Will we lose our content?

No. I move your pages, posts and pictures across and check them with you before the switch.

Will our old links still work?

Yes. I keep your web addresses the same where I can and redirect the old ones where I cannot.

Work like this

  • alicedennis.net

    A site for a piano and singing teacher. It replaced one that was broken. She updates it herself.

  • geraldlarner.com

    About 6,700 old word-processor files, turned into a free public archive that anyone can search. It holds 5,388 programme notes on 445 composers.

For IT people

  • Legacy apps to REST APIs

    Legacy app modernisation: moving PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails and JSP applications from server-held state to true RESTful APIs.

Tell me what you need

A few lines about the project is enough. I read every message myself. I meet people face to face within about 30 miles of Portsmouth, and work with organisations anywhere in the UK.

Send me a message

Or email hello@passionfruit.design, or call or WhatsApp 07385 509278.