Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to WordPress CMS migrations
Overcome the high licensing costs and inflexible nature of Adobe Experience Manager by migrating to WordPress. Learn how our expert team ensures a seamless transition, offering a powerful and cost- effective CMS alternative.
Streamline costs and boost agility with a move from AEM to WordPress
Adobe Experience Manager’s high licensing costs and complex infrastructure strain budgets and development resources, limiting scalability and agility.
WordPress, on the other hand, has no licensing fees and a wide array of customizable plugins, offering a simpler, more flexible solution. Embrace agile content management and reduce total ownership costs with WordPress.
Benefits
The benefits of migrating from AEM to WordPress
Talent availability
WordPress benefits from a vast pool of developers worldwide, ensuring easy access to skilled professionals. This extensive community support helps reduce hiring times and costs.
Reduced costs
Migrating to WordPress eliminates the high licensing fees for AEM’s core platform and features, and reduces hosting and development costs associated with AEM, leading to significant long-term savings.
Reduced maintenance overhead
WordPress’s user-friendly interface allows non-technical users to perform basic updates and manage content, reducing the reliance on specialized developers and lowering overall maintenance costs.
Open-source documentation
WordPress offers comprehensive documentation and community support. This makes it easier to troubleshoot issues and implement new features, with a wealth of resources available.
Enhanced security
WordPress prioritizes security with regular updates and a strong ecosystem of security plugins. A dedicated security team ensure your site remains protected against vulnerabilities.
High performance
In addition to numerous caching and performance optimization plugins, a Core Performance Team ensures that WordPress benefits from continual incremental performance improvements
Fast time to market
WordPress enables rapid content publishing and updates with its intuitive editor and streamlined workflow processes, significantly reducing time to market for new content.
Simplified interface
WordPress’s user-friendly interface requires minimal training, allowing editorial teams to quickly adapt and efficiently manage content, with the block editor providing straightforward WYSIWYG functionality.
Centralized content management
WordPress offers efficient content management, preventing content fragmentation and ensuring consistency across multiple pages and channels with categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
Efficient asset management
With robust metadata, tagging, and categorization capabilities, WordPress makes it easy for authors to organize and locate and manage assets quickly, enhancing productivity.
Responsive design
WordPress supports responsive design out-of-the-box, simplifying the creation and maintenance of content that looks great on all devices, ensuring a consistent user experience across various screen sizes.
Better SEO tools
WordPress has a number of popular SEO tools and plugins, helping editorial teams optimize content on-page content for search engines without needing development expertise.
Friendly for non-technical teams
WordPress is built with non-technical users in mind, offering an intuitive WYSIWYG interface that empowers marketing teams to manage content without relying on developers.
Rapid campaign launches
WordPress’s ease of use and extensive plugin ecosystem enable quicker setup and deployment of marketing campaigns, reducing time to launch and enhancing agility.
Transparent costs
WordPress’s open-source nature and wide range of free and affordable plugins minimize hidden costs, ensuring budget-friendly operations and predictable expenses.
Comprehensive analytics tools
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 has a number of popular SEO tools and plugins, helping editorial teams optimize content on-page content for search engines without needing development expertise.
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
Rolling Stone
The new RollingStone.com included a migration of 20+ years of online data and assets dating back to the 1960s.
Over the past decade we’ve moved hundreds of enterprise sites to WordPress, worked with some of the biggest publishers on the planet, and even managed the largest WordPress CMS Migration in the Southern Hemisphere.
Strategic consultation
Our consultative approach includes a thorough review of your current setup, planning for future needs, and ensuring that your new WordPress site is scalable, flexible, and ready for growth.
SEO integrity
We ensure that your site’s SEO rankings are preserved during the migration, preventing any loss in search engine visibility and maintaining your online presence.
Tailored editorial workflows
Our experienced team can customize editorial workflows to match your team’s publishing needs perfectly, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance, regardless of your CMS.
Proven track record
XWP has successfully migrated hundreds of websites, including some of the world’s largest high-traffic brands. Our experience guarantees a reliable and efficient migration process.
Stress-free migration
With XWP, and you won’t have to worry about managing large-scale infrastructure changes in-house. We execute a meticulous step-by-step process, giving you full confidence in the final results.
Custom solution
We customize our migration process to meet your specific needs, ensuring that your new WordPress site aligns perfectly with your business goals and requirements.
One of our smoothest and most successful launches to date. Everyone who reviewed the site – both before and after launch – commented on the exceptional quality. This was down to an incredible effort led by you all, with a focus and dedication that was a joy to be involved in.
Working with XWP to migrate from Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to WordPress is a strategic change with numerous benefits. Here are some frequently asked questions to help you understand what to expect.
What are the future cost implications of migrating to WordPress?
Migrating to WordPress can significantly reduce your long-term costs. WordPress is open-source with no licensing fees, and its extensive plugin ecosystem allows you to add functionality without the need for costly custom development.
Can I maintain my design and branding consistency after migrating from AEM to WordPress?
Absolutely. We ensure that your website’s design and branding remain consistent during the migration. Our team can replicate your current design or help you enhance it for a better user experience on WordPress. 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.
Will my SEO rankings be affected during the 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.
How long does a migration from AEM to WordPress typically take?
The duration of the migration process varies depending on the complexity and size of your website, and is fully defined during the discovery phase. However, we strive to complete the migration as efficiently as possible, minimizing downtime.
Can I migrate all my existing content and features from AEM to WordPress?
Absolutely. We ensure that your website’s design and branding remain consistent during the migration. Our team can replicate your current design or help you enhance it for a better user experience on WordPress.
What ongoing maintenance and support services do you offer once the migration is complete?
We offer a range of proactive maintenance and support services to ensure your WordPress website continues to operate smoothly. This includes monitoring for performance and security, regular updates to WordPress core, plugins, and themes, as well as proactive troubleshooting and issue resolution. Our support packages can be tailored to your specific needs, providing you with peace of mind as you focus on your content.
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