WordPress-to-Headless Migration. @wordpress-headless-migration

WordPress sites accumulate years of content, URLs, and search equity — which is exactly what a careless replatform destroys. The WordPress-to-Headless Migration moves your site to a headless architecture the way Scrums.com approaches legacy modernization generally: phased and inventory-driven rather than big-bang, with the existing estate mapped before anything is rebuilt.

The finish state is the site running on a modern stack — headless CMS behind a fast frontend — with content migrated and verified, core URLs preserved or 301-mapped one-to-one, metadata and structured data carried over, and editors publishing comfortably in the new workflow. Search traffic is monitored through cutover against the pre-migration baseline.

Content & URL Inventory

A full crawl and export of pages, posts, media, taxonomies, and URLs — plus plugin-held content that hides outside the standard tables — ranked by traffic so nothing valuable is dropped silently.

Content Migration & Modeling

WordPress content transformed into a structured model in the target CMS — shortcodes and page-builder markup resolved, media re-hosted, and integrity checks against the source.

Headless Frontend Build

A production frontend rendering the migrated content with performance budgets, template parity for in-scope page types, and the redirect layer implemented at the edge.

SEO-Safe Cutover

Metadata, canonical, sitemap, and structured-data parity, a complete 301 map, and staged cutover with search console and traffic monitoring against baseline.

1. Scope — Inventory content and URLs, fix the target CMS and page types in scope, and agree the redirect and parity rules.
2. Build — Migrate content, build the frontend, and verify parity page-type by page-type on staging against the live site.
3. Handover — Staged DNS cutover with monitoring, editor training in the new CMS, and the inventory and redirect map as deliverables.

The WordPress-to-Headless Migration is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.

Will we lose search rankings?

The migration is engineered against that: one-to-one URL preservation where possible, complete 301 mapping where not, metadata parity, and monitoring through cutover. Ranking risk concentrates in sites that skip the inventory step — which is why it comes first here.

Can we keep WordPress as the headless backend?

Yes — WordPress with WPGraphQL or the REST API is a legitimate target and often the cheapest editorial transition. Scoping compares it honestly against a dedicated headless CMS for your team.

What happens to our plugins?

Each plugin's function is inventoried and either replaced by the new stack, rebuilt, or consciously retired. Forms, SEO, and redirects have standard equivalents; the inventory surfaces the rest before they can surprise you.