Umbraco to WordPress CMS Migration

Are you researching alternatives to Umbraco CMS, or how to migrate from Umbraco to WordPress CMS?

For teams running Umbraco as their CMS, the costs to maintain, host, and develop are significantly higher than on WordPress.

Between Microsoft operating system licensing fees, less features and integrations out of the box and the greater costs to hire and run an Umbraco team, the expenses or Total Cost of Ownership of an Umbraco site is large.

Migrating to a WordPress powered website from Umbraco CMS allows an organisation to save costs on development, hosting and maintenance.

One of the reasons that stakeholders avoid migrating from Umbraco to WordPress is to avoid downtime, SEO penalties and an inability to maintain and develop their new platform. In a nutshell, resistance to change.

What you want is an agency partner that is experienced at migrating from Umbraco CMS to WordPress CMS, and with over ten years of experience in enterprise migrations, you can feel confident that your team will be able to deliver on your business and technology strategy by ensuring the migration is handled properly, any risks are mitigated and the WordPress site launch is a success.

How to migrate from Umbraco to WordPress:

  1. Requirements Gathering and Project Planning – We work with your team to understand the best combination of people (Engineers, UX/Designers, Project Managers and Business Analysts) required to gather requirements and build the roadmap of project delivery.
  2. Implementation – We work according to our agreed schedule and roadmap to build out the WordPress platform to replace your Umbraco CMS, fine tuning and iteratively testing the migration approach.
  3. Launch – We work together to launch the site and ensure it is smooth and seemless, avoiding pitfalls that impact site uptime and search rankings.
  4. Managed Retainer – We transition into a retainer agreement that allows our team to continue working with yours to add features and functionality to the platform and ensure that the site continues to best serve your team’s needs.
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