Move Your Strapi Project Onto WordPress

Strapi is capable software, so the reasons to move are rarely about the product itself. Self-hosting it means running a Node server, a database, security patching, scaling and backups, which is real DevOps work. Its major version upgrades, v3 to v4 to v5, are breaking changes that cost real developer time, and you are maintaining two codebases at once, the API and a separate front end.

For what is frequently a content site, the total of hosting plus developer time is high, and editors often find the headless workflow awkward. WordPress gives you one system instead of two, an admin your editors already know, predictable hosting and full ownership. For a site that needs to be run and marketed rather than constantly maintained, that is usually the move.

Both are on the table and we advise honestly on which fits. Most of the time the biggest win is consolidating the two systems into one, rebuilding your front end as a conventional WordPress theme so there is a single codebase to run and update rather than an API and a separate app.

Where a decoupled front end genuinely needs to stay, for example an established React or Next.js build you are not ready to retire, we keep WordPress headless and serve content over the REST API or WPGraphQL. You still lose the Strapi hosting and upgrade burden, you just keep your front end.

Yes, that mapping is the heart of the job. Content Types become custom post types with ACF, Components and Dynamic Zones map to ACF Flexible Content or Gutenberg blocks, relations become post relationships, and the media library moves into the WordPress Media Library.

The point of that mapping is that editing stays as structured on WordPress as it was in Strapi, 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.

That burden largely goes away. Instead of you running a Node process, a database and a front end deployment, each needing patching and scaling, WordPress runs on ordinary managed hosting that any decent host supports out of the box.

We can set that hosting up for you and, if you want, keep it updated and monitored on a support retainer. Either way you are no longer carrying the DevOps overhead of a self-hosted headless stack just to publish content.

A smaller content site usually takes 4 to 6 weeks from sign-off. Larger builds with a lot of Dynamic Zone content, a bespoke front end to reproduce or integrations to rebuild typically run 6 to 10 weeks.

We give you a timeline with the quote and tell you early if anything is going to move it.

It depends on the size of the content model and how much of the front end needs rebuilding, rather than how many pages there are. A straightforward content site is a very different number to a Dynamic Zone heavy build with a custom front end and integrations.

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. It is worth weighing against the hosting and developer time you stop spending once the two systems become one.

Regularly. Agencies that inherited a Strapi project they cannot easily maintain, or that want to move a client off a costly self-hosted stack, use us to migrate it to WordPress under their own brand, with us invisible to the end client. The build standards are identical, the only difference is whose name is on the work.