WordPress and Joomla Migration to Modern Solutions

Modernize your website with our 15 years of expertise

Your WordPress or Joomla site has served you well, but the limitations are becoming obvious: chronic slowness despite optimizations, recurring security vulnerabilities, updates that break the site, incompatible plugins, and increasing maintenance costs.

After 15 years of experience with these traditional CMSs, we intimately know their strengths and weaknesses. This expertise allows us to accurately identify when a migration becomes more cost-effective than yet another patch.

A migration to a modern headless architecture (Directus + Astro) is not just a change of tool. It's a transformation that eliminates problems at the root: lightweight architecture, no vulnerable plugins, native performance, and a healthy foundation for years to come.

WordPress and Joomla Migration to Modern Solutions
Audit and Migration Strategy
Audit and Migration Strategy

Audit and Migration Strategy

The audit begins with a comprehensive inventory of your current site: pages, articles, taxonomies, media, users, active plugins and their functionalities. We map critical dependencies and identify the functionalities to be reproduced in the new architecture. This assessment avoids unpleasant surprises during the migration.

SEO analysis preserves your search engine optimization acquired over the years. We export the URL structure, metadata, internal linking, and backlink profile. A comprehensive 301 redirect plan is prepared to ensure zero traffic loss and maintain your positions in search engines.

The migration strategy defines the schedule, phases, and validation criteria. We establish a staging environment to test the migration without impacting your production site. Risks are identified and mitigated before each step. You maintain control of the schedule and validate each milestone.

Content Inventory Plugin Dependency Mapping Technical Debt Analysis WP-CLI Export Screaming Frog Crawl 301 Redirect Mapping Canonical URL Strategy Google Search Console Migration Blue/Green Deployment Staging Environment Rollback Strategy Migration Checklist

Data Extraction and Transformation

Extracting content from WordPress/Joomla is done via native APIs or direct database exports. We retrieve articles, pages, custom post types, ACF/Pods metadata, taxonomies, and relationships. Media are inventoried with their metadata (alt, title, caption) for a complete migration.

The transformation adapts your data to the Directus model. We clean up obsolete shortcodes, convert Gutenberg blocks into clean HTML, and restructure content according to the best practices of a headless CMS. This step eliminates accumulated technical debt and optimizes your data structure.

Importing into Directus uses automated scripts that preserve content relationships, multilingual translations, and SEO metadata. We validate the integrity of imported data through automated tests. Media are optimized and imported into the Directus file system.

Data Extraction and Transformation
Data Extraction and Transformation
Data Extraction and Transformation
Data Extraction and Transformation
WP REST API Database Export (mysqldump) ACF to JSON Conversion Custom Post Type Migration Data Normalization Shortcode Parser Gutenberg Block Converter Content Sanitization Directus SDK Import Batch Processing Media Optimization Pipeline Data Validation Scripts
Performance, Scalability and Automation
Performance, Scalability and Automation

Performance, Scalability and Automation

Headless architecture allows for native horizontal scaling. Your static frontend is distributed on a global CDN for optimal response times anywhere in the world. Traffic spikes (Black Friday, sales) are absorbed without performance degradation thanks to the auto-scaling of backend resources.

Automation workflows eliminate repetitive manual tasks: inventory synchronization, sending transactional emails, generating invoices, updating product feeds for marketplaces. These automations are executed via Directus Flows or dedicated workers, ensuring reliability and traceability.

Comprehensive analytics tracking gives you a clear view of your performance: conversion rates, cart abandonment, user journey, advertising ROI. We integrate Google Analytics 4, advertising pixels (Meta, Google Ads) and custom dashboards for data-driven management of your e-commerce business.

CDN Edge Caching Horizontal Scaling Auto-scaling Kubernetes Load Balancing Directus Flows Event-Driven Architecture Message Queue (RabbitMQ) Cron Jobs GA4 E-commerce Tracking Facebook Pixel API Server-Side Tagging Data Layer Implementation

Choosing our WordPress/Joomla migration service means benefiting from:

  • 15 years of experience on traditional CMS and their pitfalls,
  • a proven methodology that preserves your SEO and your content,
  • a modern architecture that eliminates recurring problems,
  • complete support from the audit to the post-migration training.

You get a modernized, high-performing, and secure site, free from the constraints of the old platform and ready for the years to come.