WordPress Migration Services

WordPress Migration Service Overview

WordPress migration services involve transferring a website from one platform to WordPress, ensuring that all content, design elements, and functionality are preserved during the transition. These services can include migrating sites from other content management systems (CMS), such as Wix, Joomla, or Shopify, to WordPress.

The migration process typically involves moving databases, files, themes, plugins, and other site components to WordPress, while also addressing compatibility issues and optimizing the site for performance and security. The goal is to seamlessly transition the website to WordPress without data loss, downtime, or disruption to the user experience.

Why Should You Migrate Your Old Website to WordPress?

Here are some amazing benefits when you migrate your old website to WordPress: 

User Friendly Interface

Migrating your old website to WordPress offers numerous compelling advantages, making it an attractive option for designers, developers, and business owners alike. First and foremost, WordPress boasts a user-friendly interface that caters to users of all skill levels. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a business owner with minimal technical expertise, the intuitive dashboard and straightforward navigation make managing your site a breeze. This ease of use not only saves time but also reduces the need for extensive training, allowing you to focus more on your core business activities.

Large numbers of themes 

Another significant benefit of WordPress is its extensive theme options. With over 11,000 themes available, you can customize the look and feel of your website to align perfectly with your brand identity. Whether you need a minimalist design or a highly interactive layout, WordPress offers a theme to suit your needs. This level of customization is crucial for creating a unique online presence that resonates with your target audience.

Large numbers of Plugins

The platform’s vast plugin library is another reason to consider migrating. WordPress offers over 60,000 plugins, allowing you to add advanced functionality to your site without the need for custom coding. Whether you’re looking to improve your site’s SEO, add eCommerce capabilities, or integrate social media, there’s a plugin available to meet your needs. This extensive library ensures that your website can grow and adapt as your business evolves, making WordPress a future-proof solution.

SEO Friendly

WordPress is also renowned for its SEO-friendly features. The platform is designed to facilitate search engine optimization, with clean code, customizable permalinks, and the ability to use plugins like Yoast SEO to further enhance your site’s visibility. Given that organic search accounts for 53% of all website traffic, optimizing your site for search engines is essential for driving growth and attracting new customers.

Mobile Friendly

Responsive design is another key advantage of WordPress. With more than half of all global website traffic coming from mobile devices, having a responsive site is crucial. Many WordPress themes are mobile-friendly out of the box, ensuring that your site looks and performs well on all devices, from desktops to smartphones. This not only improves user experience but also contributes to higher search engine rankings, as Google prioritizes mobile-friendly sites in its search results.

Easy to Scale

Scalability is a hallmark of WordPress, making it suitable for websites of all sizes. Whether you’re running a small blog or a large enterprise site, WordPress can handle increased traffic and content without sacrificing performance. As your business grows, WordPress can scale with you, offering the flexibility to expand your site’s features and functionalities as needed.

Good for Blogs

Moreover, WordPress excels in content management, allowing you to easily create, edit, and organize a wide variety of content types. This is particularly beneficial for businesses that rely on regularly updated content, such as blogs, news sites, or eCommerce stores. The platform’s robust content management capabilities ensure that your site remains organized and accessible, making it easier to engage with your audience.

Large Community

WordPress also benefits from a large and active community of developers, designers, and users. This community support is invaluable when it comes to troubleshooting issues, finding new plugins or themes, and staying updated with the latest best practices. Additionally, WordPress regularly releases updates to enhance security and functionality, ensuring that your site remains protected against vulnerabilities and operates smoothly.

Reasonable price

Finally, WordPress is a cost-effective solution for building and maintaining a website. The platform itself is free, and many of its themes and plugins are also available at no cost. This affordability, combined with the extensive customization and scalability options, makes WordPress an excellent choice for businesses looking to maximize their online presence without breaking the bank. Furthermore, WordPress easily integrates with a wide range of third-party tools and services, further extending its capabilities and ensuring that your website can meet all your business needs.

Why LitExtension Is the Best Choice When Migrating to WordPress?

No Downtime

When you choose LitExtension’s WordPress Migration Services, you benefit from a process that ensures no downtime. This means your old website will remain fully functional during the migration, allowing you to continue receiving orders and new customer information without any disruptions.

Fast Migration

Our migration service is known for its speed, ensuring that your website is up and running on WordPress as quickly as possible. Despite the fast migration time, we guarantee 100% accuracy in the transfer, meaning all your data—from products and customer details to order history—will be migrated without errors.

Completely Secure

At LitExtension, we place a strong emphasis on customer security and privacy. We implement stringent security measures throughout the migration process to protect your sensitive data, ensuring it remains confidential and secure.

Professional Team of ExPerts

With a team of experts boasting over 13 years of experience and more than 300,000 successful projects, you can trust that your migration will be handled by professionals who know the ins and outs of platform transitions.

Support 24/07

Finally, our 24/7 customer support is always available to assist you. We guarantee a response time of no more than 24 hours for any service-related inquiries, ensuring that you have the support you need at every step of the migration process.

Want to switch from WooCommerce to Shopify effortlessly? Trust LitExtension to deliver a smooth, reliable migration experience. We’ll transfer all your store data while ensuring it remains fully functional and operational.

The step-by-step WooCommerce to Shopify migration process includes the following:

• Stage 1: Prepare for WooCommerce to Shopify Migration
• Stage 2: Perform full migration from WooCommerce to Shopify
• Stage 3: Follow a go-live checklist after data migration

Migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify: Preparation

We’ve created a comprehensive flow chart outlining each step of the migration process to make your transition smooth and efficient.

1. Backup database of WooCommerce store

When transferring your data with LitExtension, you don’t have to worry about data distortions because we will not alter anything on your WordPress WooCommerce Source Store. Thus, it is unnecessary to back up your WooCommerce source store data before migration.

In case you still want to backup your data, here is how to do it:

• Go to your WooCommerce store back-end, and navigate to Tools > Export.
• From there, you can export your site content, such as your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, etc. to XML files. If you, on the other hand, don’t want to export all of your content, you can just choose the specific fields you want to export.
• Hit “Download Export File” to get XML files.

This default function will compress your data to XML files. If you want to do more, for example, exporting products with images, some WooCommerce plugins (free and paid versions) will help you deal with that.

2. Set up a new Shopify store

After successfully backing up your files, it’s time to create a new Shopify home and begin your migration!

• The first step is to sign up a Shopify account at this address.
• After that, Shopify may ask you for information about your new store, or you can skip all the questions and start your journey on Shopify.
• Now, you’re on the Shopify dashboard and can get down to migrating from WooCommerce to Shopify.

The migration process involves only 3 simple steps, and no technical skill is required.

To better understand our service, you can check out our WooCommerce migration to Shopify tutorial video.

Now, let me walk you through a step-by-step guide to migrating from WooCommerce to Shopify with LitExtension.

Step 1: Register an LitExtension account

You can register an account on the LitExtension if you haven’t had one. You may quickly log in using your Facebook or Google account.

Step 2: Set up WooCommerce as Source Cart and Shopify as Target Cart

Once logged in to the LitExtension site, click “Create new migration” to move from WooCommerce to Shopify. Then, you can enter your Source’s and Target Cart’s information.

First, choose WooCommerce as your Source Cart from the drop-down menu. Then enter your store URL.

• Download & set up the “le_connector” file. This connector has only one function, which is to create a bridge between your WooCommerce database with LitExtension.
• Then, you can extract the LitExtension zip file and upload the Connector folder to the root folder of WooCommerce.
• Once finished, a notification will appear on your screen “Connection was successfully installed“.

Next, moving on to Target Cart setup.

• After you have chosen Shopify as your Target Cart from the menu, enter your store URL and the API password into the blank space.
• Regarding Shopify API, LitExtension will migrate your data using API. If you’re using LitExtension on Shopify App Store, the Shopify API is automatically connected.

After finishing the cart setup, click “Next” to the following stage of the migration.

If you’re not getting the idea of how to get an API password from your Shopify store, please refer to the below video.

Step 3: Select entities to migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify

Now, you choose the entities to migrate WooCommerce to Shopify.

In this case, we support migrating products, customers, pages, blog posts, and coupons. You can choose to migrate only a few, for example, only import products from WooCommerce to Shopify or click “Select all” to migrate all of them.

To help you extend your WooCommerce to Shopify migration possibilities, we also offer some Additional Options, such as:

1. Clear current data on Target Store before Migration

If you choose this option, all data on your Target Store before the migration process (if any) will be deleted. Therefore, the data duplication risk when moving from WooCommerce to Shopify can be avoided.

2. Create the 301 redirects on your Target Store after migration

301 redirect is a procedure of pointing URLs from one site to another. In other words, when your customers click on your old WooCommerce website links, they will be redirected immediately to the corresponding page on your new Shopify store.

Don’t forget to map your order status and language so that your data can appear appropriately on your Shopify source store.

Step 4: Perform full migration from WooCommerce to Shopify

Now you are switching from WooCommerce to Shopify. We highly recommend you run the demo migration first to see how LitExtension will carry out the migration process (learn more about LitExtension demo migration).

Or, you can skip the Demo migration and run the full migration!

Once the migration begins, it will proceed smoothly on the server. As a result, you don’t have to keep your PC running while the data is transferred. It is entirely safe to turn it off!

You will be notified through email when the WooCommerce to Shopify migration process is complete.

You may have some extensions installed on your WooCommerce site to support your business, and you don’t want to lose these extended functionalities. To do this, look for and install Shopify apps with purposes that are related to those of your WooCommerce store (you can refer to our list of best Shopify apps).

Due to the peculiarity of Shopify apps and WooCommerce plugins, LitExtension will examine whether we can assist you in migrating your data to the new apps you choose. If feasible, we will facilitate the migration of data from your WooCommerce plugins to  the corresponding apps in Shopify. It’s important to note that this additional service may incur extra costs.

During the whole migration process, LitExtension still keeps your old WooCommerce store running normally. Accordingly, you will still receive new orders and customers as usual while decorating your new Shopify store.

That is how our further migration services come in handy!

Recent Data Migration allows you to import all newly appearing entities to Shopify.

Smart Update updates changes you have made to data in the old store, along with all the newly appearing entities.

Re-migration service enables you to migrate your data all over again.

All these three options are FREE if you have performed full migration with LitExtension within 3 months before and the total number of additional entities is less than 10% of the total entities in the first migration.

WooCommerce to Shopify Migration: Post Migration

After the migration, you might want to take some extra steps to set up your new Shopify store. Here is a list of some post-migration activities that we recommend.

• Check migration result
• Change DNS and switch domain
• Set up your shipping
• Choose the payment method
• Try placing some orders

How LitExtension Troubleshoot WooCommerce to Shopify Migration

Potential issues may arise during the migration process, and here are LitExtension solutions to these.

1. Data mapping and compatibility

• Problem: Data from WooCommerce may not have a direct equivalent in Shopify
• Solution: You will have a consultation with LitExtension support team if you encounter any compatibility issues before migration to minimize all the upcoming issues.

2. Custom functionality and plugins

• Problem: WooCommerce may have custom functionality or plugins that don’t have direct equivalents in Shopify.
• Solution: We can assist in identifying the custom functionality or plugins in WooCommerce and explore Shopify’s app store for alternatives.

3. Design and theme migration

• Problem: WooCommerce themes may not be compatible or transferrable to Shopify.
• Solution: LitExtension experts can select and recommend a new Shopify theme for you. If you want to customize a new theme that fits the look and feel of your old store, we can assist you with our Shopify Development Services.

4. Product variants and attributes

• Problem: WooCommerce and Shopify may have different ways of managing product variants and attributes, leading to potential discrepancies.
• Solution: With LitExtension Additional Option, you may “Migrate Source Store categories into Shopify Smart Collections”. You can find out more here.

5. SEO and URL redirection

• Problem: Changing platforms may result in different URL structures, potentially impacting SEO and causing broken links.
• Solution: LitExtension Additional Option can support you with proper URL redirection from old WooCommerce URLs to corresponding Shopify URLs. Please refer to this document for more insights.

6. Downtime and impact on live store

• Problem: The migration process may require temporary downtime, impacting your live store’s availability.
• Solution: LitExtension ensures that your store will run smoothly during the migration and receive new orders. There will be downtime when transferring the domain, but it will not take long.

With LitExtension, you can minimize and simplify the migration process!