Migrations — moving your website, email, or platform
Guides for migrating between website platforms, email providers, and hosting providers — with honest advice on timelines, risks, and what to expect.
Moving your website, email, or online store from one platform to another is one of the bigger decisions a business owner makes. Done well, it opens up better tools and fewer limitations. Done carelessly, it can cost you search rankings, lose content, or disrupt email for days.
These guides walk you through every common migration scenario in plain language — what transfers, what doesn't, where the risks are, and how we manage the process together.
Quick summary
A migration means moving your website, email, or data from one platform or provider to another. Migrations have real risks — SEO dips, downtime, and lost content are all possible if not handled carefully. These guides explain each migration type, what to prepare, and what to expect.
If you only read three things
- Pre-migration checklist — read this before committing to a migration.
- Don't lose your SEO during a migration — the single most expensive mistake.
- The migration guide that matches your move — pick from the platform-to-platform guides below.
Not sure what you're moving from?
If you don't know which platform your current website is built on, Which platform is your website built on? will identify it in about ten seconds, then send you to the right set of guides.
Planning a migration
Pre-migration checklist
Everything to do before any migration begins — backups, credentials, redirects, and more.
Don't lose your SEO during a migration
How to protect your search rankings when moving platforms or domains.
Website platforms
Migrating from Squarespace to WordPress
What transfers, what doesn't, timelines, and how we handle the move.
Migrating from Wix to WordPress
A practical guide to leaving Wix and launching on WordPress.
Migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce
Move your store from Shopify to a self-hosted WooCommerce setup.
Migrating from WooCommerce to Shopify
Move your store from WooCommerce to Shopify's hosted platform.
Email & marketing tools
Migrating from Mailchimp to Kit or Beehiiv
Export your list, move your automations, and switch to a better-fit email platform.
Migrating your business email
What happens when we move your email from one provider to another.
Hosting
After the move: where to learn your new setup
A migration guide gets you across. These sections are what you'll use every day once you're there.
Which platform is your website built on?
Identify your platform and jump to the right day-to-day guides.
WordPress
If you moved to WordPress — pages, posts, plugins and users.
Shopify
If you moved to Shopify — products, orders, themes and apps.
WooCommerce
If you moved to WooCommerce — the shop inside your WordPress site.
Website hosting, explained
If you moved hosts — billing, staging, SSL and backups on your new host.
Business email, explained
If you moved email — addresses, aliases, deliverability and spam.
Related guides
- Which platform is your website built on?
- Domain vs hosting vs email — what actually moves, and what doesn't
- Pointing your domain to a new site
- DNS propagation: why changes take time
- Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365: how to choose
- Giving Chykalophia access: start here
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