WordPress to Framer migration
A plugin update has already broken your site on a Friday night? Changing a headline takes a ticket, a developer and three days? Your blog takes four seconds to load on mobile, and Google noticed before you did?
Good news: moving a site off WordPress without losing its SEO, we've done it for four sites at once.
A migration run by the team that merged Rubika's four WordPress sites into a single Framer site, with +46% traffic to show for it.Your articles, pages and images exported, cleaned up and imported into the Framer CMS, checked on a sample, then on everything.No more plugins, no more updates, no more hosting provider. One hour of training, and your teams publish on their own in Framer.
Three things a WordPress to Framer migration must do, and one it mustn't
WordPress runs a huge chunk of the web, and a huge chunk of those sites dread the next update. We migrate so your site becomes a tool your teams use again, not a risk they avoid.
Migrate every article, lose none
WordPress export, HTML cleanup, import into the Framer CMS: titles, intros, authors, categories, images, publish dates. Automated for large volumes, checked line by line on a sample, then on everything.
Replace plugins, don't rebuild them
Caching, security, backups, SEO, forms: native in Framer, nothing left to update. Business features are replaced by clean integrations. The inventory tells you what goes away and what gets replaced.
Plugins to monitor
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Get your speed back without rebuilding the site
Without nine plugins to load, the site loads fast and Google notices. But a migration isn't a redesign: we don't change what works. We fix what the inventory measured along the way, nothing more.
How does a WordPress to Framer migration work at Dafolle?
A short project, run in batches: templates, then pages, then articles, then plugins, then redirects. Each batch is checked before the next one opens. The 30 URLs driving 80% of your traffic are handled first, because that's where SEO is won or lost. The cutover happens on a quiet morning, and the WordPress host waits a month before being canceled.
Week 1
Inventory and migration plan
Pages, articles, plugins, theme, traffic per URL, speed. The 30 priority URLs are identified, and the fate of each plugin is decided. Decision: like-for-like or with fixes.
Decision 1: the scope
Inventory sheet
Weeks 1–2
Templates rebuilt in Framer
Homepage, standard page, article template, category template. Reproduced or fixed, checked on your phone.
Templates in preview
Week 2
Static pages and forms
Every page, forms reconnected to your tools, plugin features replaced with native features or integrations.
Pages in preview
List of replaced plugins
Weeks 2–3
Article migration
WordPress export, cleanup, batch import into the Framer CMS. A sample checked line by line, then the rest.
Collections filled
Gap report
Week 4
Redirects and testing
301s one by one, priority URLs first, sitemap, Open Graph, structured data, Core Web Vitals, key user flows. Cutover checklist approved together.
Decision 2: the cutover
Redirects file
Week 4
Domain, training, follow-up
Domain cut over on a quiet morning, 404s monitored for two weeks, one hour of training. Your WordPress hosting stays on standby for a month.
Site in production
Recorded session
Next
Publish without plugins
New articles, new pages, publishing from Claude via MCP. Within your subscription if you keep it, by your team if not.
Which WordPress to Framer migration for your site? Three scopes
We tell you which one after the inventory. And we also tell you when staying on WordPress is the right call: a very heavy editorial site or a specific business feature, for example.
About 1 month
Like-for-like migration
Your site is good, only WordPress is the problem. We reproduce it page for page, migrate the articles, set up redirects and train you.
Templates and pages rebuilt
Articles migrated and checked
Redirects, cutover, training
For a site of 10 to 40 pages and fewer than 200 articles.
1 to 2 months
Migration with light redesign
We reproduce the site and fix the friction measured at the inventory along the way, often including the article template and its calls to action.
Everything above
Article template and homepage redesigned
Simplified forms
The most popular format.
3 to 6 months
Merging several sites and redesign
Several WordPress sites, a fragmented identity, a confusing user journey. Unified architecture, design system, migration, CMS for multiple teams.
Unified architecture
Design system and Brand.md
Migration of all sites, multi-team CMS
Rubika: four sites merged into one, +46% traffic.
One model: a monthly fee, Framer development included from the Grow plan, the Framer Pro plan (about €30 per month) on your side for redirects. And one less WordPress hosting bill. Details on the pricing page.
A WordPress to Framer migration for a blog answer engines cite
A WordPress blog slowed down by its plugins and stuffed with mass-produced content starts with two handicaps: it loads slowly, and it looks like every other blog. Answer engines, ChatGPT and Claude alike, cite articles that are clear, structured and fast. We migrate to remove the first handicap, and help you avoid the second.
An article template designed by hand
Heading hierarchy, long-form readability, contextual calls to action: the template is designed by a designer for your readers, not copied from a theme. It's what makes your articles recognizable.
Articles structured to get cited
Article, author, date and FAQ structured data, clean sitemap, Core Web Vitals in the green. What the reader understands, the machine understands too, and it cites what it understands.
Publish from Claude, on-brand
Framer connected via MCP: an article written, reviewed and published in the right template, with no SEO plugin to configure. The Brand.md makes sure it looks like yours, not like everyone else's.
A fast, structured blog gets cited. A blog full of articles generated with no direction gets ignored, even on Framer. The tool removes a handicap, the editorial line does the rest.
Article
When we launched Dafolle, we had had enough of website redesigns that drag on for eight months, cost six months' worth of contract amendments, and end up with a site that no one dares touch anymore.
We built a model for the exact opposite: a subscription with no quotes, senior designers recruited for their business acumen, and an AI infrastructure that we enhance every month so your teams remain autonomous after we're done.
If you're hesitating about entrusting your redesign to us, let's take fifteen minutes. I'll tell you what we can do, and what we won't do.
Joffrey & Clara
Co-founders of Dafolle
The tools we use for a WordPress to Framer migration
What if you're not starting from WordPress, or the migration deserves a redesign?
How much does a WordPress to Framer migration cost at Dafolle?
It's paid in subscription months. Plan on about a month for a like-for-like migration, one to two months with a light redesign. Framer development is included from the Grow plan, at €6,000 excl. VAT per month, every task shows its credit weight before it starts, and the Framer Pro plan (about €30 per month) is on you for redirects. Your WordPress hosting, on the other hand, goes away. Prices on the pricing page.
How long does a WordPress to Framer migration take?
About a month for a 10 to 40 page site with fewer than 200 articles, migrated like-for-like: one week of inventory and templates, two weeks of pages and articles, one week of checks and cutover. One to two months with fixes. Three to six months when the migration merges several sites, as with Rubika.
Will I lose my SEO rankings?
No, if the migration is done in the right order: the 30 URLs that bring in 80% of your traffic are redirected and tested first, every other URL gets its 301 redirect, titles, descriptions, and structured data are carried over, the sitemap is submitted on cutover day, and we monitor 404s for two weeks. At Rubika, the migration delivered +46% traffic.
What about my 300 blog posts?
They're exported, cleaned up, and imported into the Framer CMS with their titles, intros, authors, categories, images, and dates. The migration is automated and checked line by line on a sample before running on everything, with a zero-discrepancy report. Categories and tags get streamlined along the way if you want.
What happens to my plugins?
Most of them become unnecessary: forms, SEO, caching, security, and backups are native in Framer. Business features are replaced by integrations: Fillout for complex forms, Weglot for multilingual, Make for automations. The inventory tells you, plugin by plugin, what goes away and what gets replaced.
What if I have a WooCommerce store?
WooCommerce can't be migrated to Framer alone: the catalog and payments move to Shopify, the storefront to Framer Commerce, and Dafolle builds both. It's all detailed on the e-commerce website redesign page.
Why Framer over WordPress?
So you stop being afraid of your own site: no more updates, no more conflicting plugins, no more hosting provider. An interface built for humans, native AI agents, a connection to Claude via MCP, and a site that's fast by default. WordPress still makes sense for very heavy editorial sites or specific business features: we'll tell you at the inventory stage if that's your case.
Can I publish my own articles after the migration?
Yes. One hour of training, and publishing an article takes five minutes in a template that keeps everything consistent, with no SEO plugin to configure. Framer also connects to Claude via MCP so you can publish from your writing tool.
Who handles the migration?
Geoffrey, Framer developer at Dafolle, runs the inventory, the content migration, and the cutover. A senior lead designer steps in on the article template and fixes if you choose the light redesign. Joffrey tracks the project day to day.
What about multilingual, forms, domain, and hosting?
Weglot for languages, Fillout or native forms reconnected to your tools, and the domain cut over on a quiet morning after testing. Your WordPress hosting stays on standby for a month as a safety net, then you cancel it.