Migrate Your Website From Contentstack to WordPress

Contentstack falls under the category of headless CMS, designed for flexibility and delivering content across multiple channels. Built on the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) stack, it’s ideal for companies that need to publish dynamic content on various platforms. On the other hand, there is WordPress, a platform that powers more than 40% of all websites and supports small to enterprise business alike. Built on PHP, it offers a more user-friendly, scalable, and community-driven environment.

What sets WordPress apart:

User Experience: Easy-to-use interface designed for people with minimal technical skills.
Customization: A multitude of themes and plugins for easy customization without requiring extensive coding.
SEO-Friendly: Offers robust SEO capabilities right out of the box and extends it further through plugins like Yoast SEO.
Community Support: Benefits from a large, active community that offers extensive free resources and support.

Why Migrate from Contentstack to WordPress?

Budget-Friendly

Contentstack’s flexible but often complex architecture can translate into higher costs. WordPress is open-source and free, eliminating licensing costs and reducing the total cost of ownership.

Usability

WordPress boasts an incredibly user-friendly interface that doesn’t require specialized developer skills for day-to-day management, making it ideal for small teams or solo website owners.

SEO Advantages

As an SEO Writing Expert, I can attest to the superior SEO capabilities that WordPress offers. With plugins like Yoast SEO and All in One SEO Pack, even SEO novices can easily optimize their site for search engines.

Versatility

Although WordPress started as a blogging platform, it has evolved to serve multiple types of websites, including e-commerce, portfolio, and even small social networks.

Thriving Ecosystem

With a wide array of themes, plugins, and community-driven resources, WordPress ensures that you’re never short of options to extend your site’s capabilities.

Steps for Website Migration

Content Audit: Document all the existing content on your Contentstack site.
WordPress Setup: Install WordPress on your preferred hosting service.
Theme Matching or Redesign: WordHerd offers a comprehensive solution that will maintain the existing design and functionality of your website while leveraging the capabilities of a page builder to create a custom WordPress theme. This approach will enable streamlined creation and editing of pages through the use of the editor’s rich feature set. Alternatively, our team can create custom designs based on a new direction and build them in WordPress as a new theme specifically for your company.
Content Migration: WordHerd’s website migration services provide a comprehensive solution for transferring your website content to the new environment while preserving your core messaging and valuable content. Our team will seamlessly migrate all your page and post content, ensuring that your website’s integrity is retained in its entirety. We will migrate all of your content, including titles, slugs, body copy, excerpts, hyperlinks and even custom fields, with particular attention paid to preserving the internal links that will become relative to the new environment. Our team will also ensure that all assets, including images, PDFs, documents, and other files, are transferred with the utmost care. We will maintain all alt text, title attributes, and related image figure captions, ensuring that assets are correctly attached to their page content.
SEO Setup: Our team will move all meta titles, descriptions, and schema into an SEO plugin of your choice, with our default preference being the Yoast SEO plugin. Additionally, we ensure that proper redirects are put in place for any URLs that may need to change, preserving the integrity of your website’s structure and ensuring that search engine rankings are not affected by the migration.
Testing: Our team will rigorously test your new site to ensure all features are working as expected and that common website migration pitfalls are avoided.
Go Live: Once you’re satisfied, we make the switch and your new site goes live with no interruption to your website.

Migrating from Contentstack to WordPress is a strategic move that offers a host of benefits ranging from cost savings to superior SEO capabilities. With our team’s expertise, your website content will be seamlessly transferred to the new environment with no disruption to your business operations or online presence.