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WEBSITE BUILDER · MOVE TO WORDPRESS

Your website is a rental.
I rebuild it on WordPress, exactly as it looks today.

Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Webflow, Weebly, Duda, Framer. They all end the same way: the site is theirs, the design has a ceiling, and the day you stop paying it comes down. I rebuild your site as a real WordPress site on a custom theme, matched to your current design so closely nobody notices, and hand it to you with the keys.

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24 hrs
FIXED QUOTE
~3 wks
TO BUILD
20+ yrs
DOING THIS
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Your plan renews automatically
Your Business Premium plan renews on October 24, 2026 for $396.00 per year. An active paid plan is required to keep your site published and to keep your connected domain in service.
  • Your design rebuilt exactly, as a clean custom theme
  • You choose how you edit it, before I build it
  • Every old URL redirected, so your rankings hold
  • Your current site stays live until you approve
  • Price fixed in writing before I touch any code
Direct access to the people building it.
I lead a small team of WordPress design, development, and SEO specialists. No project managers, no ticket queue.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS

The “easy option” is the one that never gets finished.

The pitch is a weekend and a credit card, and for the first page or two it holds up. Then the template will not do the thing you need. The mobile view stops agreeing with the desktop view. Two pages still have placeholder text sitting on them. The site parks itself at eighty percent and stays there for a year while you keep meaning to get back to it.

Nearly every builder site I am asked to look at arrives in some version of that state, and the owner is usually a little apologetic about it. They should not be. Drag and drop is easy for the ordinary things and has no answer at all for the specific thing your business actually does. Past a certain point you stop building your website and start negotiating with the tool.

And the ones that do get finished are still not yours. Your pages, your layout, your content structure, all of it lives inside their editor and only while the invoice keeps clearing. Some of these platforms offer an export. None of them export a working website, which is exactly why leaving keeps getting postponed and the renewal keeps going through.

  • It stalls at eighty percent Starting is the easy part. Finishing is the part nobody budgets for, and it is where most of these sites quietly stop.
  • Easy until you need something Drag and drop covers the ordinary. A calculator, a members area, a real integration with the software you run on, and the answer is simply no.
  • Mobile that drifted Separate desktop and mobile layouts get edited separately and slowly diverge. Most builder sites I look at are noticeably worse on a phone.
  • Stop paying and it goes dark The site is published under their account, on their terms. There is no offline copy that keeps working.
  • No real way out Export gives you fragments at best. Every year you stay, the cost of leaving goes up rather than down.
WHAT I DO ABOUT IT

Two ways across. Both end with a site that is yours.

Either way you finish with a self-hosted WordPress site on a custom theme built for your site alone. The only real question is whether it arrives looking identical to what you have, or looking purposely designed for your business.

Most people want the first one, and they are usually right to. Your design already reflects your business, your customers already recognize it, and there is no reason to spend money changing what is working while you are also changing platforms.

MOST COMMON
Option 1

Exact Design Clone

Starting at $1,650fixed quote, confirmed before I start

Best for: a site that looks the way you want it to and simply needs to stop being someone else's property. Typically 1 to 3 weeks.

  • Your current design rebuilt exactly, page for page
  • Clean custom theme built for your site, no page builder
  • All pages, posts, images, and copy carried across
  • Every old URL mapped to a 301 redirect before launch
  • Forms, maps, booking, and embeds rebuilt and tested
  • You pick the editing experience: WYSIWYG, ACF fields, or blocks
  • Built on staging, launched with no downtime
  • Optional premium managed hosting
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Option 2

Redesign & Custom Development

Starting at $4,250scoped and quoted after we talk

Best for: a site that was already dated before the platform became the problem. If you are paying to move house anyway, this is the moment to fix the rest. Typically around 6 weeks.

  • Everything in the Exact Design Clone
  • New design built around what your business does now
  • Content structure and navigation reworked, not just restyled
  • Built for speed and Core Web Vitals from the start
  • Backend organized so your team can actually edit it
  • Design reviewed and approved before development begins
  • Optional premium managed hosting
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Both numbers are confirmed in writing after I look at your specific site, and they do not move afterward. Page count, custom functionality, and anything unusual on the current site are what shift the figure. If your site needs something other than these two paths, I will tell you that instead of selling you one of them.

HOW YOU WILL EDIT IT

You choose how it works, before I build it.

The reason people stay on builders is not the design, it is the fear that WordPress will be harder to use. So the editing experience is a decision you make up front, not something you inherit. Same price either way. Pick the one that sounds like you.

01

Classic WYSIWYG

B I U

One open editor for the whole page, much like a word processor. It gives you a free hand to format things your own way and will not stand in your way if you know a little HTML and want to use it. It is also the least guided of the three, which is why it is the one clients most often find intimidating when they are handed it.

Ease of use
Layout control
Styling control
Who is it forIf you just want to change text occasionally and never think about it again, or you know a little HTML and would rather work in it directly.
MOST PICKED
02

ACF Pro fields

HERO SECTION HERO HEADING HERO IMAGE BUTTON TEXT

Every section of every page becomes a set of labeled fields. Hero heading, hero image, button text, each one named in plain English and grouped in the order they appear. The layout is not editable, only its contents, so there is nothing you can click that breaks the design.

Ease of use
Layout control
Styling control
Who is it forIf you or a colleague have ever broken a layout and not known why, and you want clean, well organized inputs for every element on the page.
03

Gutenberg blocks

Your own design registered as blocks in the WordPress editor. Drop in a testimonial band, reorder two sections, assemble a whole new page out of parts you already own, all without calling anybody. Where a section is genuinely particular to your business, I build it as a custom ACF block so it stays reusable rather than something you have to rebuild by hand every time.

Ease of use
Layout control
Styling control
Who is it forIf you add pages regularly, want to build them yourself by dragging and dropping the sections into place, and are willing to conquer the learning curve to get there.
HOW IT HAPPENS

Off the platform and onto your own site, in four steps.

01
YOU SEND THE URL

Tell me the address.

That is genuinely all I need to start. The form below takes about a minute. No login to your builder account, no credentials, no commitment at this stage.

02
WITHIN 24 HOURS

You get a real number.

I go through your pages, the forms and embeds, and anything the platform is doing for you that will need rebuilding. Back comes a fixed price, a timeline, and a plain description of what I found.

03
1 TO 6 WEEKS

I build it alongside your live site.

The new site goes up on a private staging address while your current one carries on as normal, still published, still paid for. You review the real thing in a browser, not a mockup.

04
YOUR CALL

You approve, then the domain moves.

Nothing changes on your domain until you say go. The switch is a DNS change that takes minutes, redirects go live with it, and you cancel the old subscription once you are happy, not before.

THE PART EVERYONE ASKS ABOUT

Moving off a builder does not cost you your rankings. Doing it carelessly does.

Your position in search is attached to your domain, your URLs, and your content. All three come with you. What actually damages sites in a migration is never the destination, it is the URLs quietly changing and nobody mapping the old ones to the new ones. Google follows a link that no longer resolves, files it as gone, and the page you spent years earning disappears from the index.

Builders each use their own URL conventions, so the addresses do change. That part is unavoidable. What is avoidable is losing anything to it. Before launch I crawl your live site, list every URL it currently answers on, and give each one a permanent 301 redirect to its new home. Not a pattern, not a catch-all to the homepage. One line per page, checked.

ON THE BUILDER ON WORDPRESS
/blog/2024/3/14/spring-service-tips /blog/spring-service-tips
/post/why-we-switched-suppliers /blog/why-we-switched-suppliers
/copy-of-services-2 /services/duct-cleaning

Page titles, meta descriptions, and image alt text travel with the content. Your Google Business Profile, your Search Console property, and every link anyone has ever pointed at you keep working, because the domain never changes hands. The one thing that usually does move is speed, and it moves in your favor.

I have been doing this since 2003 for clients all over the country, currently based in Atlanta. You will work with me directly from the first email to the last. Andy Boone, Ask4Tech Web Solutions

Since you may have arrived here from an ad, worth saying plainly: this is the first advertising Ask4Tech has ever run. Every client I have taken on since 2009 came by referral. But a referral network can only reach people who already know someone who knows me, and the person sitting on a site they cannot get out of usually does not. That is the whole reason this page exists.

BEFORE YOU COMMIT

What transfers, and what gets rebuilt properly.

All of it comes with you. The two halves just take different kinds of work, and it is worth knowing which is which before you ask for a number.

Content is the straightforward half. Pages, posts, images, metadata, all of it transfers intact and there is nothing for you to worry about there. Functionality is the half that takes expertise: your forms, booking, maps, and logins were being provided by the platform, so each one is rebuilt properly on the WordPress side and tested end to end before launch. That is the careful, detailed part of this job, it is priced in the quote rather than sprung on you later, and it is the part worth choosing someone experienced for.

Transfers intact
  • Every page and every blog post, with its formatting intact
  • Images and media, re-uploaded at full quality
  • Page titles, meta descriptions, and alt text
  • Your domain and your email, both untouched
  • Your design, matched to the pixel
Rebuilt properly, then tested
  • Contact and quote forms, including where submissions go
  • Booking, scheduling, and calendar tools
  • Maps, galleries, sliders, and video embeds
  • Members areas, gated content, and logins
  • Anything the platform was doing behind the scenes for you
Responsive audit an optional add-on, quoted alongside the build

Most builders let you maintain a desktop layout and a mobile layout as two separate things, and after a few years of edits they no longer agree with each other. An exact clone reproduces that, faithfully, including the parts that are wrong on a phone. So there is an optional add-on: I audit the site at real device widths, list what is actually broken rather than what is merely different, and correct it as part of the build. If your traffic is mostly mobile, and for most local businesses it is, this is the one thing here worth adding.

One thing worth deciding early. If your current site has functionality you depend on daily, a booking system, a store, a member login, say so in the form. That is the part that moves the price, and it is much better to know at the quote than to find out halfway through.

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BEFORE YOU ASK

The six questions I get every time.

That is the whole point of the standard option. I rebuild your design as it stands, page for page, right down to spacing and type. Nobody visiting your site should be able to tell anything happened. If there are things about the current design you have never liked, say so in the quote request and I will price fixing them separately, so you can decide with a number in front of you rather than agreeing to a vague improvement.

Your rankings are attached to your domain, your URLs, and your content, and all three come with you. The risk in these moves is never WordPress, it is sloppy URL handling. Builders use their own URL structures, so before launch I map every existing page to its new address and set a permanent 301 redirect for each one. That is done from a crawl of your live site, page by page, not guessed at. Titles, meta descriptions, and image alt text carry across with the content.

Yes, and you pick how. ACF Pro turns every section of every page into labeled fields, so you change the words and the images and cannot accidentally break the layout. Gutenberg blocks give you your own design registered as blocks you can rearrange and restyle to build new pages. The classic editor gives you one open page to format freely, which suits you if you know a little HTML, though it is the least guided of the three. Most people who came from a builder choose the ACF fields, because it is the option where nothing you click can wreck the design.

No, and please do not. Your current site stays live and paid for the entire time I am building. The new site goes up on a staging address you can review privately. Only when you approve it does your domain get pointed at the new site, and that is a DNS change measured in minutes. Cancel the old subscription after the new site is live and settled, not before.

WordPress itself is free, so what you are paying for is hosting. My plans start at $35 a month for a single page or a simple info site, and most multi-page business sites sit on the $60 plan. Either way that covers the managed server environment, nightly offsite backups, firewall and security monitoring, and support from someone who knows your site. Core and plugin updates are handled under a separate maintenance plan starting at $25 a month if you would rather not think about them. For most people coming off a business plan on a builder, the monthly total lands close to where it already was. The difference is what you get for it: a site you own, that you can move, that has no ceiling on what it can be made to do. You are not obliged to host with me either, since the site is yours outright and can go anywhere.

Because moving to another builder is the same trade with a new landlord, and you would be having this conversation again in three years. WordPress is not a platform you rent access to, it is software that runs on hosting you control. Your site is files and a database you can download, back up, hand to another developer, or move to another host on a Tuesday afternoon. That portability is the actual product here, and no builder can sell it to you.

GET YOUR QUOTE

Send me the URL. I will tell you what it takes.

One minute to fill in, a real answer within 24 hours: what moves across, what has to be rebuilt, what it costs, and how long it takes. No obligation and no sales sequence afterward.

You are asking about moving a website builder site to WordPress. I review these personally and reply within 24 hours, usually a good deal sooner.
Quote back within 24 hours.
No pressure, no sales script. If moving is not the right call for your site right now, I will tell you that and you can get on with your day.

Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Webflow, Weebly, Duda & Framer to WordPress Conversion | Ask4Tech Web Solutions

Ask4Tech Web Solutions rebuilds DIY website builder sites as self-hosted WordPress sites on custom themes. Run by Andy Boone, founded 2003, based in Atlanta, GA, serving clients nationwide. Contact: (470) 202-8389 or info@ask4tech.com.

The problem this solves

Options and pricing

Choice of editing framework

What transfers and what is rebuilt

How the process works

Ongoing cost after the move

Related: WordPress website design and development, managed WordPress hosting.

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