We move business sites to Framer from WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Joomla, Drupal, or a custom build the original developer has long since left. Every old address is mapped to a new page before the switch, and afterwards your team edits text and images on the page itself.
Depends on your platform
For most business sites, yes. For some, no, and we’ll say which before you spend anything. The reasons differ by platform, so each row below says where it applies.
A self-hosted site’s moving parts
One platform
On WordPress, Joomla or Drupal, the core, the theme and every extension need updating, and each update can break something. Of the new WordPress vulnerabilities found in 2025, 91% were in plugins. Wix and Squarespace already do this for you. An old custom build gets patched only if someone still knows how.
Nothing to patch. Framer runs the platform and the hosting, and there are no plugins on the live site.
Self-hosted: a host, a certificate and a backup plugin, each set up and paid for separately. Hosted builder: included. Custom build: whatever the agency arranged, if anyone still has the login.
Hosting and the HTTPS certificate are included on every Framer plan. Version history keeps snapshots of the project, so a bad edit can be copied back from an earlier one.
On WordPress a text change usually means a page builder and a worry that it will shift the layout, so it waits for “the web person”. Wix and Squarespace are easy to edit, within what the template allows. On a custom build every change needs a developer, if you can find one.
Text, images and blog posts are edited on the page as it looks. Layout templates can’t be touched from there, and nothing goes live until someone with publish rights presses publish. A typo fix can’t take the site down.
Self-hosted: depends on the host, the theme and how many plugins load on each page. Hosted builder: whatever the platform gives you. Custom build: whatever it was built to do, in the year it was built.
Served from Framer’s hosting, with popular pages cached around the world. Nothing to configure and no caching plugin to tune.
Self-hosted: hosting, paid plugin licences, and someone’s time every month to keep it patched. Hosted builder: a plan fee, plus apps for whatever the plan doesn’t do. Custom build: an agency retainer, or nothing until something breaks.
One site plan paid to Framer, plus a seat for each person who edits. No patching time to pay for.
Flip the switch, then click any heading or paragraph on this page and type. Press Publish when you’re done.
Here anyone can flip it and nothing is saved. On your site, only the people you’ve given a seat can.
Worked example
elevatedit.au ran on WordPress until October 2026. It was rebuilt on Framer, every old address was mapped to its new page, and a script checked each one before and after the switch. Printed staff guides and links in old emails still land where they should.
Sweep across to compare the old site with this one.
410 of 410 tested, 0 missed
old addresses mapped to new pages, every one tested by a script before and after the switch
Each dot is one old address. Point at any of them.Tap any of them.
Your old site stays up
Your current site stays live the whole time. The switch is a change to where your domain points, and the redirects are already in place when it happens.
We list every page and every old address your site has ever published, including the ones you’ve forgotten.
Same content, same or refreshed design, on a private preview address you can click around before anything changes.
Each old link gets a new home. A script tests the whole list and fails if one is missed, so none are.
Your domain points at Framer and the redirects start working at the same moment. Email isn’t touched.
A walk-through of editing pages and posts, so a text change doesn’t need us.
No price list
Every site is different, so we quote after we’ve looked at yours. Looking costs nothing. These are the things that move the number.
How many pages, and how many share a layout. Ten pages on two layouts is a small job. Forty pages that each look different is not.
Blog posts, case studies and anything else that has to come across and keep its address. Where it lives matters: WordPress exports everything, Squarespace exports one blog as a file, and Wix won’t export blog posts at all.
Where your enquiry forms send, and anything the site talks to: bookings, CRM, newsletters, payments.
We can rebuild your current design as it is, or use the move to refresh it. A refresh is more work, so say which you want before we quote.
Quoted the same way
Moving sites is what most clients ask for right now. We also build the small systems that save a team hours a week. All quoted per job, none tied to a managed IT plan.
One enquiry, three jobs done. Drag it into the reader or press Run. Sample data only.
An enquiry arrives
The move described above, from WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Joomla, Drupal or a custom build.
booking nowThe copy-paste jobs between your inbox, spreadsheets and systems, done without a person in the middle.
Your shop, accounts and CRM agreeing with each other without manual exports.
A small app for the job your team currently does in a spreadsheet nobody trusts.
Cost and whether it’s worth it
If it works, you can edit it, and it isn’t costing you patching time or plugin licences, don’t. We’ll say so. The sites worth moving are the ones where every change waits for a developer, where updates keep breaking things, or where the monthly cost adds up to more than anyone noticed. The quote comes after a look at yours, and the look is free.
Rankings can move for a few weeks after any site change, on any platform. What protects them is a permanent redirect from every old address to its new page, which is where we spend the most time. Framer’s own migration guide says the same: every old address that gets traffic needs one, no exceptions. We test the full list before the switch.
No. Web development is quoted and billed on its own, separate from any IT plan. Managed IT clients go through the same quote process and get slightly better rates.
Yes. We can rebuild it as it is, or refresh it while we’re moving it. Rebuilding as-is is the cheaper option.
Your team edits text, images and posts on the page. For anything bigger, we quote changes as they come up or agree an ongoing arrangement, whichever suits your site and the work. We keep access so we can step in when you need us, and you can remove it whenever you like.
Your domain stays yours; we only change where it points. Email isn’t part of the move. If your email runs on the same hosting account as the old site, we check that before anything gets cancelled.
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Ask us.
Send us the address. We’ll look at what you have, tell you if moving makes sense, and quote it if it does.
