Moving from WordPress
Moving your church website off WordPress
WordPress powers a lot of church websites, and it often becomes the volunteer's least favourite job. Moving is usually quick, because your content already exists.
Why churches move
The usual reasons
- Plugins and updates that need attention every month
- A hacked site, spam links or warnings in Google
- Slow pages, especially on phones
- A theme that looks dated and is hard to change
- Nobody left who knows how it all fits together
- A wordpress.com address instead of your own domain
What we do
How the move works
- We bring across your pages, sermons, events and photos
- Old page addresses redirect to the new ones, so links and Google results keep working
- Your domain moves into the church’s name if it isn’t already
- You check a full preview before anything changes
- We switch over with no downtime
- Your team learns the new, simpler way to update it
An example
Proclaim Anglican Church, Clyde North
Proclaim had a WordPress website with a large sermon collection. We moved everything across, including nearly 200 sermons now organised by Bible book, series and preacher, and redirected the old addresses. The new site is faster, has nothing to patch, and the church keeps it up to date itself.
Thinking about moving?
Send us your current website address and we'll tell you what moving would involve and what it would cost.