Sitecore to WordPress Migration

Sitecore to WordPress Migration

Ebizon is a trusted team of Wordpress migration experts. Having rich experience in over migrating to WordPress, our team is well versed to create user-friendly, feature-enriched, and robust websites that match your business needs. We will even take care of website downtime and we assure that the source site will be 100% available throughout the transfer period. Data Security is our top priority and we assure safety and protection of your data

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Our highlights

Integrity and Transparency

Specialization in design and development

Experience in WordPress Platform

Past clients reviews

Budget consideration

An organized and transparent development process

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Why Wordpress

Easy user management

Fluidity of design and flexibility

Well researched and thoroughly tested API Integrations to suit your specific business requirements

Robust security features

Large developer community to provide a stable and safe platform

SEO benefits

Simplest content management

Social Media Features

A true Open Source solution with ZERO licensing cost, WordPress can be the core of your business, maintaining and growing it easily on the digital platform for years to come.

Why Choose Us ?

A cross-functional team of 150+ designers and developers.

In-house experts, Business analysts, UX/UI designers, consultants.

Testing and Quality assurance after each phase.

Best practices to increase site’s SEO and Organic search ranking

Crystal clear and cooperative approach with clients.

Competitive rates in the industry.

Challenges with Sitecore and our solution

Complexity

Sitecore is complex to wrap your head around.You may need a certain amount of training to be able to understand and efficiently utilize most of Sitecore’s features. On the other hand, WordPress is well-known for having a very user-friendly interface – for both new and experienced website owners. Simplicity is often the best option when you want to accommodate both highly-trained developers and complete novices at a company.

Price

Sitecore licenses are subscription-based. They generally vary depending on factors like the number of your website visits per month, concurrent users, add-on modules, and on-production installations. WordPress, however, is quite uncomplicated and also very affordable – for first-time website owners and larger companies alike.






Deployment

When it comes to Sitecore, you will most likely not be able to set up your website quickly. This is because the platform has unique requirements that only allows for customer development. Understandably, these custom solutions demand more time to get everything in line before your website will be able to go live. With WordPress, Cloud-based hosting and ready-to-use themes allow you to quickly navigate the site-building process. Thus, you can establish your website in no time.


Difficult experience with website maintenance in Sitecore which is the easiest in WordPress


Most of the users have been found frustrated with the complexity, erroneous admin panel and backend manageability of Sitecore and so it makes sense to migrate to a simpler platform which is the most used CMS and has a very easy backend.





Experienced Sitecore certified developer requirement






Developers who fail to treat the Sitecore platform and their website as an application and apply ALM best practices can easily create an undocumented mess of code and architecture. If programmatic rules are used rigidly without overrides, a content manager can feel hamstrung especially if tiny tweaks involve development and deployment in the website

High cost involved in Sitecore







The cost depends greatly on the company’s business specifics and requirements. However, irrespective of the case, a Sitecore-based CMS comes at a high price in terms of development and maintenance.

We have got you covered

Secure high-quality code is just the start. We consider all the little details so your site is comprehensive.

Caching

There’s no single solution that works for caching, so we assess the best way to handle it based on how your server is configured. When we build for you, we find the best way to optimize your site based on what you have.

Internationalization

We have extensive experience in creating multilingual sites for international audiences. Let us make sure your site is comprehensible to the people in your backyard and across the globe

Accessibility

Making the web accessible is something that we prioritize in development and design. Not only is it important ethically, but ensuring that your website is accessible to all is the kind of business model that attracts and keeps clients

Ebizon strives to make migration simple and easy. Despite the complications and challenges faced while migrating from one CMS to WordPress, we make sure that we deliver results as per the expectations of the client. Few challenges are listed below and our solution on how we overcome them:-

Mobile Responsiveness- While migrating, we make sure that the new website is mobile responsive and is supported by mobile devices. While a website losing out on mobile responsiveness is a pretty common occurrence during the migration process.

Retention of SEO juice and Benchmarking - While it is a very common problem of loss of important SEO components, while migrating. Ebizon has expertise in migrating content without losing SEO juice. It is important to maintain the SEO at all stages otherwise it will affect organic rankings and there could be a traffic/revenue risk. This is addressed by SEO retention process pre, during and post migration.

Loss of Data and Archived File - We have a dedicated team performing deep search on the health of the website. We ensure no loss of data while migration. We keep stakeholders in loop during the entire migration process.

Create a 301 redirect strategy - We map old URLs to new URLs, organized by site architecture. If a page is being eliminated, find the most relevant page for a 301 redirect. We ensure that no 401 redirects happening after migration.

Content Sanity and the formatting - - It is possible that content pages in the current sitecore platform have different character encoding liek UTF-8, ASCII, etc or javascripts embedded into the pages which may increase the effort to consider their appropriate display in Wordpress. The risk could be mitigated by manual content sanity testing after each content type is migrated.

Inline Image handling - Images placed inline with Text/Articles will most likely affect the look when migrating to a new structure. Images may also have alt, captions which need to be ensured are mapped properly for SEO reasons.

Backend Data Structure updates -The backend structure usually is updated based on inputs from editorial even until later stages of the project development. All the field related changes need to be timely communicated between the development and migration team in order to avoid data discrepancies.

How do we migrate from Sitecore to WordPress

1. Establish A Plan

We discuss the business objectives of the stakeholders in order to understand what actually they want to achieve with the upgrade and accordingly build a plan that includes redesign and restructuring

2. Review And Cleanup

Once the upgradation is done in staging, the tools are run again to find any “Page Not founds” and then fix them with a rewrite rule.Our technical expert team take measures and necessary steps to preserve SEO.

3. Getting Organized For Migration

We map the legacy data structure with the new data structure in a mapping sheet that maps each data type and its fields with the new structure

4. Prepare For SEO Preservation

To ensure SEO preservation, we use services to crawl the website and export URLs to help understand current site’s architecture and take care of valuable links.

5. Migration To WordPress

We create a new WordPress installation in a different database from the earlier installation and make sure that all the original taxonomies are correctly labelled.

Our Deliverables

WordPress, being a powerful and flexible content management system(CMS), provides users a lot of freedom in how they choose to use and interact with the software and can modify that in any way they would like via a number of tools available. It’s designed by its community to be user-friendly and has all the features most needed by website creators and owners. With our robust upgrade scripts rest assured that your transition from Sitecore To WordPress will be practically painless and you get the highest level of customer service.

No Downtime

Your website will be 100% available during the migration. All migration and configuration processes are executed in our own test servers. Your server performance and security is never compromised!

SEO Preservation

While migrating to WordPress, we figure out the SEO rich pages and make sure to take care of the most popular and valuable inbound links. This, in turn, makes sure that the SEO is preserved and the web traffic remains unchanged while having better backend management and improved usability.

Your Content Is Safe

All Posts and Pages, All Content Image, All Categories and Sections, All Users and visitors, All Comments and tags, All internal links, All multimedia

Painless Migration

We do the migration for you from start to finish or until you are happy and satisfied. If you need, we can also help transform your website to a professional theme, fix internal links and 301 redirects.

We are capable of migrating to WordPress from Sitecore

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Have A Question? call us at (408) 540 6283 or email us at support@cmstowp.com

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SUCCESS STORIES

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Ebizon developed a similar WordPress theme of their existing Drupal website so that visitors don’t get repelled from using the new website. After this, all the website data was migrated from Drupal site to New WordPress site before launch.
Redirect Strategy was put in place to ensure search engine friendly URLs were kept intact (301 redirect, update internal link structure, meta tags and Url aliases were maintained) so that the SEO richness of the website is maintained even after the migration to Wordpress.
Around 600+ Blogs/Articles, and 900+ comments were migrated as part of content migration Category and Tags mapping was maintained and verified carefully.
Visit the new website : https://www.macmillanlibrary.com/

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Ebizon was engaged to redesign their website to WordPress with the goal of improving the user journey, highlighting the key work related themes and overall mobile experience. With the WordPress framework we have built, marketing teams can create multiple content pages independent of complex aggregated member databases. The content pages use flexible components to allow curators to build out 1000+ articles and landing pages, with images, video, promotional capabilities, and more.
Check the link here- https://msfindia.org/

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Ebizon helped MSF India team in redesign, content strategy and development of a new website in WordPress CMS. The redesign not only helped them connect with their audiences - Volunteers, Donors and Medical researchers in a more user friendly way on web as well as mobile, but also improved efficiency of their content and marketing team by providing them easy tools to add content, images and videos.

Check the link here- https://msfindia.org/

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Ebizon has been a significant consulting & technology provider with WRI India for around 5+ years. We are design and development partner with WRI India and have been helping them with design and development of websites for their different programs :-
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Do you preserve the SEO of the Sitecore website? Expand

We’ve developed smart solutions to keep Sitecore URLs the same on WordPress. However, if you’ve not used SEO friendly URLs and it becomes impossible to be kept, we handle 301 (permanent) redirections to new URLs. This avoids all SEO issues.

I don’t want my existing website to go down? Expand

We backup the Sitecore database and work on our servers. There will not be any downtime. Once migration is done, we’ll move WordPress to your server.

Do you use any tools to migrate the Sitecore website? Expand

We don’t use robots or other limited automatic migration tools. That’s impossible to get a complete and clear result using those. Our specialists develop different smart solutions especially for your website and use those to get the best result. We always prefer custom solutions for the website as each website is different from one other.

Custom requirements? Expand

There are not any limits in our services, we don’t use robots and automatic tools. We do all customization to address client specific requirements.

What will happen to my data? Expand

Keeping your data secure is our top priority. We use proven technology and take every precaution to make sure your data arrives safely at our data center – and stay safe and protected for as long as we finish the conversion.

How can I see whether I am required to migrate? Expand

You must have experienced the difficult backend management and inflexible content delivery of your website which is based on Sitecore. If you are not sure whether you require migration or not, we can do an audit of your website and suggest the areas which need attention. If you like our audit report, we can proceed with full discovery and further migrate all the components to WordPress.

How difficult it is to migrate to WordPress? Expand

Migrating to WordPress isn’t difficult if you are engaged with us. However, the time to migrate depends on the content richness and various other custom implementations that are already there on the website.

How much does it cost to migrate to WordPress? Expand

There isn’t a fixed cost that could be shared with clients once they decide to migrate. The cost completely depends on our discovery of the content, modules and custom implementations on your website.

What happens to my existing website? Expand

We can convert your website to WordPress without touching the current one. Your existing website will remain live throughout this entire conversion process.

Do I need to change my hosting in order for my website to be compatible with WordPress? Expand

Our team can review your hosting and let you know if you will need to change or upgrade your hosting package. Our parent company also offers reliable corporate and enterprise level WordPress hosting packages – as well as full-service small business web and WordPress hosting, maintenance, and support. Please contact us for more information about our value added services.

Can you provide references or testimonials from some of your previous clients? Expand

Yes, please contact us for more information regarding professional references and client testimonials. Client privacy is very important to us