Move Your Statamic Site Onto WordPress

Statamic is tidy, developer-friendly software built on Laravel, so the reasons to move are rarely about the product itself. They are about living with it. The ecosystem, community and addon marketplace are far smaller than WordPress, Statamic Pro is a per-site licence that keeps costing, and skilled Statamic developers are harder and more expensive to hire.

WordPress gives you a platform your editors already know, an enormous talent pool and plugin library, no per-site licence fee, and full ownership of the site. For a content site that needs to be run and marketed rather than constantly maintained by a scarce specialist, that is usually the move.

Yes. We rebuild your design faithfully as a custom WordPress theme, so your visitors see the same site. The difference is underneath: your Antlers templates become clean PHP and block templates, and the content sits on a CMS your team and the wider market actually know.

If there are things you want changed while we are at it, that is the natural time to do it, and we will flag anything that will work better on WordPress than it did on Statamic.

Effectively all of it. Collections and Entries become Posts and custom post types, Blueprints and Fieldsets map to ACF field groups, Taxonomies become WordPress taxonomies, Globals become ACF options pages, and Assets move into the Media Library. Users carry across too.

The point of that mapping is that editing stays as structured on WordPress as it was in Statamic, rather than collapsing into one big content field. We plan the field model first so the admin your team logs into makes sense from day one.

Bard and Replicator are how Statamic handles flexible, block-based content, and they map naturally onto WordPress. We rebuild them as ACF Flexible Content or Gutenberg blocks, so each content block keeps its own fields and your editors still assemble pages from reusable sections.

We plan this mapping before anything is imported, so the structure you built in Statamic is reproduced rather than flattened. The result behaves the same way for the people managing the site, just on a platform they already know.

Statamic usually stores content as Markdown and YAML on disk, which is actually helpful for a migration because the content is readable and structured rather than locked in a proprietary format. We parse those files, or read directly from the database where a site runs on one, and map each field to its WordPress equivalent.

Assets referenced in that content move into the Media Library and links are rewritten so nothing points at the old paths. We test the import with real content before launch so formatting, images and relationships all come through intact.

Yes. Statamic Pro is licensed per site, so every site you run carries that recurring cost. On WordPress there is no equivalent licence, so once you have moved that fee simply goes away.

It is worth weighing the migration cost against the licence fees you stop paying, especially if you run more than one Statamic site. For many teams the move pays for itself over a reasonable period, on top of being easier to staff.

A smaller content site usually takes 3 to 5 weeks from sign-off. Larger builds with a lot of Replicator content, many blueprints, or integrations to rebuild typically run 6 to 10 weeks. Cost depends on the size of the content model and how much needs rebuilding rather than how many pages there are.

We start with a short discovery call, give you a ballpark straight away, and follow up with a fixed proposal covering scope, timeline and cost. There is no charge for that and no obligation to proceed, and you own the result outright at handover.