Your words, verbatim
Headings and paragraphs are taken word for word. They are yours and they are usually the part you care most about.
Bring your WordPress site
Migrate WordPress without migrating WordPress.
A WordPress migration usually means a plugin, a new host, a database, a themes folder and somebody who knows what to do when a plugin breaks on the other side. This reads the site your visitors see — pages, posts, images — and rebuilds it here as a normal project with nothing to update.
Nothing on your current site is changed. It keeps running until you decide otherwise.
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In short
Paste the address. The public pages and posts are rebuilt here with your words and pictures, forms rebuilt as working forms, and you point your domain when it is right. What WooCommerce, a membership plugin or a booking plugin was doing is listed at the end, one sentence each, with an offer to build it.
What comes with you
Four things WordPress keeps, brought here.
Your pictures, as files
Images are downloaded and kept in the project as real files — not linked back to the old host, so the site keeps working after you cancel.
Your forms, working
Every form is rebuilt as a working form that sends enquiries to you here, instead of into the old account.
Your details, exactly
Phone number, address, opening hours — brought over exactly as you wrote them.
What WordPress itself lets you take
| Question | WordPress’s own export | Bringing it here |
|---|---|---|
| The site as code | Self-hosted: yes, it is your server — theme, plugins, database and all | The whole site as pages: words verbatim, images as files, forms working, in a git repository you own |
| Your text | In the database, exported as XML | Word for word, in the rebuilt pages and posts |
| Your images | In wp-content, on the old host | Downloaded into the project as files |
| Your forms | A forms plugin, on the old host | Rebuilt as working forms that send enquiries to you here |
| What keeps it running | You, or somebody you pay: updates, backups, security | Nothing to update; the repository stays yours |
WordPress.com plan prices and free-plan limits are as read on wordpress.com/pricing on 31 August 2026; the self-hosted software at wordpress.org is free, and the costs named on the comparison are hosting and maintenance. The right-hand column is what the import does today, quoted from the brief it sends the machine.
What actually happens
Five steps, one field.
- You paste the addressThe one you print on a card. Not an export file, not a plugin, not a login to WordPress.
- It has a look before anything is createdIt recognises WordPress from the page itself, and reads the sitemap Yoast or WordPress publishes so it finds your posts, not just your menu. You see the site’s name, its icon and how many pages it found. If that is not your site, nothing has been made and nothing has been spent.
- It reads your pages, politelyOne request a second, robots.txt obeyed. Your live site is your business; ours does not get to hammer it.
- It rebuilds, page for pageThe same pages at the same addresses, your words verbatim, your images as files, your forms working. The layout is rebuilt to be modern and responsive — it is not a pixel-for-pixel copy, and it says so.
- It tells you what it could not bringOne plain sentence for each thing that was somebody else’s service inside a page, and an offer to build the equivalent.
What will not travel
The parts of WordPress that are not pages.
WooCommerce
Product pages come over as pages. The cart, checkout and order history are the plugin’s, and the rebuild names them and offers a catalogue with a checkout built here.
Membership and login plugins
A members area is a service inside a page. It is listed in one plain sentence with an offer to build the equivalent.
Booking and event plugins
Calendars and ticketing are named at the end, and you are offered a booking form or a calendar built here.
A site with more than forty pages is brought over forty at a time: the first pass covers the first forty, says so at the end, and offers to do the rest. That number is on screen before you press the button, with a rough price beside it.
After it is here
Your domain points here when you say so.
The rebuilt site goes live on an address of ours first, so you can read every page before anyone else does. When it is right, connect the domain you already own — the same one WordPress has been serving — and cancel the old plan whenever you like, or never.
From then on you change it by asking. “Put the holiday hours on the front page.” No editor to learn and nothing to update. And the whole thing is a normal git repository from the first turn: clone it, download it, or hand it to any developer.
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Your WordPress site
read from its public pages
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Rebuilt here
words, images, forms, structure
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Your domain
pointed here when you are ready
Related
Start with the address WordPress is serving now.
It costs nothing to look — the name, the icon and the page count show before anything is created.
Your existing site keeps running exactly as it is.
Questions
Asked, answered
Do I need a migration plugin?
No. Nothing is installed on your WordPress site and no export file is needed. Paste the address, and the public pages and posts are read the way a visitor reads them and rebuilt here.
Does it bring my blog posts?
Yes, as far as it can find them. It reads the sitemap WordPress or Yoast publishes, so posts that are not in your menu are still found. A site with more than forty pages is brought over forty at a time, and the first pass says so and offers the rest.
What about my plugins?
A plugin that produced a page — a contact form, a gallery — is rebuilt as that page. A plugin that was a service — WooCommerce checkout, memberships, bookings — is named at the end in one plain sentence, with an offer to build the equivalent here.
Will my Google rankings survive?
The rebuilt pages keep the same addresses, your headings and text verbatim, and carry titles, descriptions, canonical links and structured data. Point your domain when the copy is right so the addresses do not change. If you want somebody to map every redirect by hand and watch Search Console for a month, that is a service, and Houston IT Developers offers it.
Does my WordPress site get changed?
No. It is read, not touched, one request a second with robots.txt obeyed. It keeps running until you cancel the hosting, which you do when — and if — you decide to.