Enterprise CMS migrations
Umbraco to WordPress CMS migrations
XWP helps enterprises navigate the high costs, complexity, and limitations of Umbraco by migrating to WordPress. Discover how our expert team ensures a seamless transition, providing a powerful and cost-effective CMS solution.
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Overview
Reduce your technology overhead with a move from Umbraco to WordPress
While Umbraco requires costly custom development, higher hosting costs, and licensing fees for Microsoft technologies, WordPress offers a more user-friendly and economical solution.
Whether you rely on Umbraco for its developer-centric features, custom workflows, or integration capabilities, WordPress delivers all that and more—without the expense and complexity.
Benefits
The benefits of migrating from Umbraco to WordPress
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Lower development costs
WordPress’s extensive library of plugins reduces the need for costly custom development. Unlike Umbraco, which often requires support from developers developers for even minor changes.
Scalable without high costs
Enable long-term savings with WordPress, which scales efficiently without additional licensing costs—unlike Umbraco, where fees for Microsoft technologies increase as your site grows.
Extensive plugin ecosystem
With a vast library of plugins, WordPress allows for easier integration of new features and functionalities without extensive custom development, enhancing flexibility and agility.
Abundant talent
Umbraco is used by less than 0.1% of all websites, which means costly developers. Because of its market dominance, WordPress offers a larger pool of skilled developers.
Faster deployment
WordPress’s straightforward setup and deployment process enables quicker site launches and updates. This efficiency reduces time-to-market and allows technical teams to focus on other tasks.
Capacity for experimentation
WordPress’s user-friendly environment encourages continuous experimentation. Custom permissions and a flexible setup allow continuous site improvement without major risks involved.
Gutenberg page builder
The Gutenberg editor in WordPress offers a WYSIWYG interface, making it easy for editorial teams to create complex layouts and rich content without needing advanced technical skills.
Granular permissions
WordPress provides detailed user roles and permissions, enabling editorial teams to control access and responsibilities effectively, ensuring secure and efficient content management.
Revision control
Built-in revision control in WordPress tracks changes to content over time. This feature allows editorial teams to review and revert to previous versions of posts, ensuring the integrity and quality of published content.
Flexible content taxonomies
WordPress supports custom taxonomies, allowing editorial teams to categorize and organize their content efficiently, enhancing site navigation and content discoverability.
Better analytics
Seamless integration with analytics tools provides insights into content performance, helping editorial teams make data-driven decisions to refine content strategies and improve audience engagement.
SEO tooling availability
WordPress has a range of SEO plugins available that assist in optimizing on-page content in the editor, improving visibility and search rankings, and driving more organic traffic to your site.
Rapid landing page creation
WordPress’s intuitive interface allows marketing teams to swiftly create and deploy campaign assets, keeping your marketing efforts agile and quickly adaptable to market trends.
Structured for visibility
WordPress features clean permalink structures, title tags, and meta descriptions, improving search engine rankings and visibility compared to Umbraco.
Email marketing integration
WordPress easily integrates with popular email marketing platforms, simplifying the management of email lists, the creation of newsletters, and the tracking of campaign performance.
Improved analytics and reporting
WordPress supports integration with multiple analytics tools, providing in-depth insights into your campaign performance and user behavior, helping you make data-driven marketing decisions.
Advanced lead generation
WordPress integrates seamlessly with a range of lead generation tools, enabling efficient capture and nurturing of leads through customizable forms, landing pages, and pop-ups, boosting conversion rates.
Seamless marketing integrations
WordPress effortlessly connects with marketing platforms like HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Google Analytics, providing a unified dashboard for managing and optimizing all your marketing campaigns.
Case studies
Discover the stories of the brands we’ve moved to WordPress
News Corp Australia
A major migration of 90+ brands to a highly customizable core publishing platform
90
Major brands on various platforms
40x
Improvement in time to publish
50x
Reduction in build time
Our approach
Why choose XWP for Umbraco to WordPress migrations?
Migrating from Umbraco to WordPress requires a blend of technical expertise and strategic planning. At XWP, we specialize in making this transition hassle-free. Here’s why partnering with XWP for your migration project is a safe choice:
Deep expertise
XWP has extensive experience migrating enterprise sites from Umbraco to WordPress, ensuring a seamless migration while preserving your site’s functionality and data integrity.
Tailored solutions
We provide customized migration solutions that are tailored to meet the unique needs of your business, ensuring that your new WordPress site aligns perfectly with your goals and requirements.
Performance optimization
Our team prioritizes performance optimization, ensuring that your new WordPress site is fast, responsive, and capable of handling high traffic volumes without compromising user experience.
Security-first
XWP implements robust security protocols throughout the migration process to protect your data and ensure that your new WordPress site is secure against potential threats and vulnerabilities.
SEO integrity
We meticulously maintain all SEO elements, including metadata, URL structures, and content optimization, during the migration to preserve your search engine rankings and online visibility.
Strategic consultation
XWP provides strategic consultation to help you make informed decisions throughout the migration process, ensuring that your new WordPress site supports your long-term objectives.
“For us, it was very important to find a partner that really understands the WordPress ecosystem, and understands how the WordPress codebase works— how to connect to all existing parts of the codebase. I think we managed to achieve that.”
Paul Bakaus
Former Developer Relations Lead, Content Ecosystems
Our process
XWP’s Umbraco to WordPress CMS migration process
Team assembly
Your team will play a valuable role in our success. Let’s customize a plan of action that meets all of your needs.
Discovery
Our team does a deep dive into your existing site setup, mapping and planning the logistics of a migration to WordPress.
Planning
We then plan the logistics of your move, ensuring that there is no drop-off in service or search rankings.
Implementation
Our team executes a custom migration process that ensures your site is migrated to WordPress quickly and smoothly.
Launch
You’re now ready to harness the power of WordPress’ advanced publishing capabilities and unmatched flexibility!
Maintain & support
Keep your website performing at its best with XWP’s Proactive Maintenance and Support services.
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Top 1000 Global Companies
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WordPress VIP Partner
Q4 2023 Top Gold Partner
Q2 2022 Partner Innovator
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The Manifest Awards
Top 15 Web Developers in the World
2021, 2022 (Top 1%)
Top WordPress Developers Company
2024
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Insights
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FAQs
Umbraco to WordPress CMS migration FAQs
Find answers to frequently asked questions about migrating from Umbraco to WordPress, ensuring a smooth and successful transition for your website.
Can I migrate all my existing content and features from Umbraco to WordPress?
Yes, with XWP’s thorough migration process, we ensure that all your content, custom features, and functionalities are accurately transferred from Umbraco to WordPress, maintaining the integrity of your site.
Can I migrate complex functionalities from Umbraco to WordPress?
Absolutely. XWP specializes in handling complex functionalities and custom features, ensuring they are seamlessly integrated into your new WordPress site.
How long does an Umbraco to WordPress migration typically take?
The duration of the migration process depends on the complexity and size of your site. Typically, a full migration can take anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months. XWP will provide a detailed timeline during the discovery phase.
Can I maintain my design and branding consistency after migration?
Yes, XWP ensures that your design and branding are preserved during the migration process. We work to maintain the look and feel of your site, ensuring consistency and brand integrity.
Of course, you might want to alter your site’s visual identity as you move over to WordPress—and we can help with that too! Our award-winning team of designers has helped create visual identities for everyone from Stuff.tv to Australian Geographic.
Is WordPress backwards compatible, or will I need to do custom development to take advantage of new updates?
Unlike other CMS’ WordPress has a strong belief in backwards compatibility, so you don’t need an engineering team to spend a lot of time testing and migrating your site between major and minor versions of the site.
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