WordPress to Headless CMS Migration · Durham
WordPress to Headless CMS Migration in Durham
Moving Durham organisations from WordPress to a headless CMS, where the surprise is how much the plugins were doing for the front end. Meta titles, sitemaps, redirects, forms, schema markup and image sizes all came from extensions that no longer apply — and every one of them becomes something you build.
Why this comes up
The problem
The content model is designed and nobody has accounted for sitemaps, redirects, forms or metadata.
What you get
What we deliver
- Front-end responsibilities listed, since plugins supplied more than editors realise
- Metadata modelled into the content schema rather than added later
- Sitemap and redirect handling built, because these no longer arrive automatically
- Forms rebuilt with their notifications, storage and spam handling
- Content migrated with structure, not flattened into blocks of markup
- Editor experience considered, as this is where headless projects lose support
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what wordpress to headless cms migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Sanity
- Contentful
- Next.js
- WordPress
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Media companies
- SaaS businesses
- Retail
- Professional services
- Education
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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WordPress to Headless CMS Migration in Durham — common questions
- What did the plugins actually provide?
- A great deal of the front end. An SEO plugin generated titles, descriptions, sitemaps and structured data; others handled redirects, forms and image sizing — none of which a headless CMS supplies, so each becomes an item in the build rather than an assumption.
- How should content be migrated?
- With its structure preserved. Exporting posts as blocks of markup is fast and produces content nobody can restructure later, whereas modelling the fields properly — even though it takes longer — is what makes the new system worth having.
- Will editors find it harder?
- Often initially, and this is where these projects fail. Editors lose the direct relationship between editing and the published page, so investing in preview and a well-designed editing interface matters more to the outcome than the technical architecture does.
- Is headless the right choice?
- Where content feeds several destinations, or the front end has requirements WordPress makes awkward, it earns its cost. For a single marketing website maintained by non-technical staff, a well-built WordPress site is frequently the better answer and considerably cheaper to keep running.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about WordPress to Headless CMS Migration in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise