Top 10 Strapi To WordPress Migration Companies in 2026 (A Developer's No-Nonsense Guide)

The Honest Case for Migrating Off Strapi

Let's skip the marketing framing and get to the actual situation.

Strapi v5 is a genuinely solid headless CMS. Node.js backend. TypeScript-first architecture. Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs from content type definitions. Document Service API replacing the old Entity Service in v5. Role-based access control. Self-hosted on whatever infrastructure you want. For developer-centric teams building multi-channel content delivery with dedicated DevOps capability, it is a legitimate architectural choice.

The migration conversation happens when one or more of the following becomes true:

Your Node.js environment needs a major version upgrade and the person who owns the infrastructure left six months ago. Your marketing team has filed seventeen tickets asking for content changes that should have been self-service. Strapi Cloud pricing has scaled past $500 per month for your content volume. A Strapi v4 to v5 migration is on the backlog and nobody wants to own the breaking changes across the content API, plugin architecture, and database schema. Your SEO setup is a collection of custom frontend hooks that only one developer understands. Or you are simply running a corporate website and a blog, and the architecture designed for multi-channel API-first content delivery is overkill for what you actually need.

When these conditions arrive, a Strapi to WordPress Migration is a legitimate engineering decision. WordPress powers 43.5% of all websites globally. Its REST API and WPGraphQL plugin deliver the same headless API layer that Strapi provides. Its managed hosting ecosystem, specifically WP Engine, Kinsta, and Cloudways, eliminates the self-hosted operational overhead entirely. And its editorial interface removes the developer dependency that makes content operations slow.

This is the technical shortlist for 2026. Zero company overlap with any previous Strapi-to-WordPress blog in this series. All verified. All relevant.

The Specific Technical Challenges That Separate Good Migrations From Bad Ones

Before the list, the technical context. These are the failure modes that surface most often in Strapi-to-WordPress migrations when the agency does not know the platform.

Dynamic zones are the hardest part. Strapi's dynamic zone field type allows editors to compose pages from a variable sequence of typed component blocks. A single page entry can contain fifteen different component types in any order. In WordPress, the equivalent is ACF Flexible Content fields, where each allowed component type becomes a named layout with sub-fields matching the original Strapi component schema. An agency that has not designed this mapping before migration begins will discover the problem mid-execution, when the content import fails to reproduce the original editorial structure.

Relations are stored as IDs, not as embedded content. When you query a Strapi collection type via its REST API, relation fields return the related entry's ID by default. To get the related content, you populate the relation using the ?populate query parameter. Extracting content with relationship integrity means resolving all relation IDs before import, not after. An agency doing a naive API export without population will produce a WordPress import with orphaned post relationships and broken internal links.

The redirect scope is the frontend URL structure, not the Strapi content tree. If your Strapi deployment served a decoupled Next.js or React frontend, your indexed URLs were generated by the frontend router. A pre-migration Screaming Frog crawl of the live site, not a Strapi content export, gives the authoritative list of URLs that need 301 mapping. Missing the frontend-generated routes is the most common cause of high-traffic post-migration 404s.

Media metadata is not the same as media binary files. Strapi stores alt text, captions, and custom metadata fields per asset in the uploads table. Copying files to the WordPress uploads directory without their metadata produces an accessibility and SEO problem at scale, not just a visual one.

Strapi v5's Document Service API changes how content is extracted. If your instance is on Strapi v5, the Entity Service API is deprecated. Extraction scripts written for v4 will not work without modification. Confirm that any agency you evaluate has experience with both v4 and v5 extraction patterns before engaging.

Now the companies that know all of this.

Top 10 Strapi To WordPress Migration Companies in 2026

1. EbizON

The enterprise migration partner with 2,200+ delivered solutions, a pre-migration content type mapping deliverable covering dynamic zones, relation resolution, and media metadata, built for teams that cannot afford to discover architecture problems mid-execution.

Hourly Rate: $25-$49/hr | Min. Project Size: $1,000+

EbizON's Strapi to WordPress Migration practice is built around the technical work that happens before the first API call is made. Their discovery phase produces a written content type mapping document: every Strapi collection type mapped to its WordPress CPT equivalent, every dynamic zone mapped to its ACF Flexible Content layout set with sub-fields aligned to the original component schema, every relation field documented with its WordPress post relationship equivalent, and every integration point from authentication to analytics mapped to its WordPress plugin or API counterpart.

The extraction uses Strapi's REST API with full population of relations, custom pagination handling for large content libraries, and transformation scripts that resolve relation IDs to WordPress post IDs before import rather than after. Media migration carries alt text, captions, and custom metadata alongside binary files. The 301 redirect mapping is built from a pre-migration Screaming Frog crawl of the live frontend, capturing the actual indexed URLs rather than the Strapi content tree structure.

All migration execution happens in a staging environment. The live Strapi installation stays operational throughout. DNS cutover happens after a post-migration crawl validates redirect coverage and QA sign-off is documented. A defined post-launch monitoring window catches edge cases that surface under real production traffic rather than staging load.

Client feedback is consistently specific. One client described EbizON's team as delivering "meticulous attention to detail throughout the entire project," describing the transition as "such a smooth and pleasant experience." A subscription-platform client highlighted EbizON's ability to handle complex data migration without disrupting live user workflows. Enterprise clients in retail, subscription services, and cosmetics have engaged EbizON for migrations combined with simultaneous WooCommerce integration and AI feature buildout.

• Discovery-first: written content type mapping document covering every collection type, dynamic zone layout, relation, and integration before extraction begins
• API extraction with full relation population using Strapi REST ?populate parameter and custom transformation scripts
• Media migration carrying alt text, captions, and custom metadata alongside binary files
• 301 redirect mapping built from live frontend crawl rather than Strapi content tree
• Staging-environment execution: live Strapi fully operational throughout, DNS cutover post-QA sign-off only
• Post-launch monitoring window with active crawl validation staffed by the migration team

2. CMSTOWP

The dedicated CMS-to-WordPress migration specialist with a documented Strapi to WordPress service, in-house migration scripts, private test server execution, and SEO preservation embedded as a standard milestone on every engagement.

Hourly Rate: $25-$49/hr | Min. Project Size: $1,000+

CMSTOWP's entire operation is CMS-to-WordPress migration. Their Strapi-to-WordPress service runs on private test servers throughout. The live Strapi installation is never touched. In-house migration scripts handle content extraction and WordPress import, reducing human-error risk compared to custom-scripted-per-project approaches. Pre-migration URL crawl, redirect mapping covering high-value inbound links, and post-migration 404 validation before DNS cutover are standard process milestones on every engagement.

The free 30-minute migration audit is a genuine pre-engagement scoping session that surfaces dynamic zone complexity, relation depth, and integration scope before any timeline or budget is committed. Their website stays 100% available during migration. SEO preservation covering redirects, metadata, and schema ships as a standard deliverable, not a line item.

• CMS-to-WordPress migration as the sole business discipline
• In-house Strapi extraction and WordPress import scripts
• Private test server execution: live Strapi fully available throughout
• Pre-migration crawl, inbound link protection, and post-migration 404 validation as standard milestones
• SEO preservation on every engagement as standard
• Free 30-minute migration audit for pre-engagement scoping

3. CartUnited

A migration specialist with 13+ years of experience, 50+ completed platform transitions, 150+ global team members, and documented delivery outcomes including zero downtime, full SEO metadata retention, and 90+ PageSpeed scores on destination WordPress builds.

Hourly Rate: $25-$49/hr | Min. Project Size: $1,000+

CartUnited brings structured platform migration methodology to CMS and eCommerce transitions with an explicit SEO preservation approach covering URLs, meta tags, meta titles, and page titles across the complete migration. Zero-downtime delivery with staging-first execution is standard. Post-migration delivery outcomes are client-verified: one client reported a 10% sales uplift in the first month post-migration alongside zero downtime during the store transition.

Their 150+ global team covers dedicated development, SEO, and project management workstreams simultaneously, providing execution capacity for migrations requiring multiple parallel workstreams.

• 13+ years of platform migration experience with 50+ completed transitions
• SEO retention: URLs, meta tags, meta titles, and page titles across the complete migration
• Zero-downtime delivery with staging-first execution and validated DNS switchover
• 90+ PageSpeed Score and Core Web Vitals compliance on destination WordPress builds
• 150+ global team spanning development, SEO, and project management
• Post-migration support through the critical post-launch window

4. 1UP

A Clutch-listed digital agency with web development and WordPress delivery capability, offering structured project management and professional delivery for organisations migrating from Strapi to WordPress as part of a broader digital upgrade.

Hourly Rate: Undisclosed | Min. Project Size: Undisclosed

1UP operates as a digital agency with WordPress web development capability and a professional project management approach to web development engagements. For Strapi migration clients whose scope is well-defined and whose primary requirement is clean, structured technical execution and reliable communication throughout, 1UP's agency model provides accountability and delivery consistency that solo-developer arrangements cannot match. Their Clutch-listed profile and verified delivery track record provide independent evidence of professional project delivery standards.

• WordPress web development and digital agency capability with Clutch-verified delivery track record
• Structured project management with defined milestones for CMS migration engagements
• Professional agency delivery model with accountability appropriate for technically specified briefs
• Accessible for organisations with focused Strapi migration scopes and manageable content libraries
• Reliable communication throughout the migration engagement flagged in client feedback
• Agency structure appropriate for teams that need more than a solo freelancer but less than enterprise overhead

5. Biz Midlands

A UK Midlands-based Clutch-listed web design and development agency delivering WordPress builds and digital services for regional and national businesses, with local presence and professional project management for organisations seeking a geographically accessible migration partner.

Hourly Rate: Undisclosed | Min. Project Size: Undisclosed

Biz Midlands is a UK-based web design and development agency serving regional and national clients with WordPress development, web design, and digital services. Their Clutch-listed profile and UK delivery track record make them a relevant option for British organisations migrating from Strapi to WordPress who prefer a local agency partner for in-person scoping, same-timezone delivery management, and the accountability that comes with geographic proximity. Their professional delivery culture and WordPress capability cover the destination-side technical requirements of a standard Strapi migration scope.

• UK Midlands-based with local service delivery for British and regional organisations
• WordPress web design and development with Clutch-verified delivery track record
• Local time zone and geographic proximity for in-person scoping and accessible project management
• Professional delivery culture for CMS migration and WordPress development engagements
• Accessible for UK organisations seeking a regional agency partner for their Strapi migration
• WordPress destination build capability alongside core migration delivery

6. KliKx Designs

A Clutch-listed web design agency with WordPress delivery capability and a design-first approach, combining visual quality with technical delivery for Strapi migration clients whose WordPress destination needs to carry genuine design craft alongside technical accuracy.

Hourly Rate: Undisclosed | Min. Project Size: Undisclosed

KliKx Designs brings a design-led perspective to WordPress web development that is directly relevant for Strapi migration clients whose existing decoupled frontend accumulated visual quality that the WordPress destination must match or exceed. For organisations migrating from a custom React or Next.js frontend built with design precision, a WordPress destination built by an agency that treats visual quality as a primary concern delivers a better outcome than one built by a purely technical migration shop. KliKx's Clutch listing and web design delivery track record provide independent validation of their professional standards.

• Web design agency with WordPress development capability and design-first delivery approach
• Clutch-listed with verified web design and development delivery track record
• Visual quality and design craft as primary delivery standards alongside technical migration
• Relevant for Strapi migration clients with visually distinctive decoupled frontends to match on WordPress
• Design and development in a single agency for complete WordPress destination build delivery
• Accessible for organisations whose migration scope includes a meaningful design quality requirement

7. Attach Digital

A Clutch-listed digital agency with WordPress web development and digital marketing capability, delivering migration and web development projects for businesses that need the WordPress destination built with marketing performance embedded from the outset.

Hourly Rate: Undisclosed | Min. Project Size: Undisclosed

Attach Digital combines WordPress web development with digital marketing capability in an integrated delivery model relevant for Strapi migration clients whose primary motivation is enabling marketing team autonomy on WordPress. For organisations that have been constrained by Strapi's developer dependency in executing content updates, launching landing pages, and running SEO campaigns, Attach Digital's marketing-aware WordPress delivery means the destination is configured for those use cases from day one rather than requiring a separate marketing engagement post-migration.

• WordPress web development and digital marketing in an integrated agency delivery model
• Clutch-listed with verified digital agency delivery track record
• Marketing-forward delivery: WordPress destination configured for SEO, content autonomy, and campaign management
• Relevant for Strapi migration clients connecting platform change to marketing team operational independence
• Digital agency structure providing strategic context alongside technical migration execution
• Accessible for mid-market organisations seeking integrated migration and marketing activation

8. David O'Sullivan Web Design and Development

A Dublin, Ireland-based freelance WordPress specialist with documented expertise in building fast, accessible websites using WordPress and modern web technologies, with a clean-code ethos and white-label capability for agencies.

Hourly Rate: Undisclosed | Min. Project Size: Undisclosed

David O'Sullivan specialises in building fast, accessible websites using WordPress and modern web technologies from his base in Dublin, Ireland. His Clutch-listed profile documents a professional WordPress delivery track record with a clean-code approach. For Strapi migration clients with focused migration scope, standard content type configurations, and a need for a hands-on developer who owns the outcome directly rather than delegating it through account management layers, David's specialist model provides the technical precision and direct engagement that agency environments often dilute. His Irish location and WordPress expertise also make him a natural fit for European organisations seeking a local-time-zone freelance developer for a well-scoped Strapi migration.

• WordPress specialist with a documented focus on fast, accessible, modern web technology builds
• Dublin, Ireland-based with European time zone for accessible project management
• Clean-code approach: technically precise WordPress delivery without bloated plugin stacks
• Clutch-listed with verified professional WordPress development track record
• Direct specialist engagement: the developer who scopes the project delivers it
• Accessible for organisations with focused Strapi migration scopes and standard content type configurations

9. WEBSPAN

A Clutch-listed web design and development agency with WordPress delivery capability, providing structured web development and CMS migration services for businesses that need professional agency-level delivery at an accessible price point.

Hourly Rate: Undisclosed | Min. Project Size: Undisclosed

WEBSPAN delivers web design and development services with WordPress as a primary delivery platform. Their Clutch-listed profile and verified delivery history demonstrate professional web development with structured project management and technical execution. For Strapi migration clients with a well-scoped brief, standard content type configurations, and a requirement for reliable, professionally managed delivery without enterprise agency overhead, WEBSPAN's web development and design capability covers the technical and visual scope of a standard migration engagement.

• WordPress web design and development with Clutch-verified delivery track record
• Structured project management with defined delivery milestones for CMS migration engagements
• Design and development capability for complete WordPress destination build delivery
• Accessible pricing and engagement model for organisations with focused migration scopes
• Professional agency delivery with accountability structures appropriate for technically specified briefs
• Single-vendor model covering both technical migration execution and WordPress destination design

10. Picodeliq Design Studio

A Clutch-listed design studio with WordPress web development capability and a craft-focused approach to digital design, delivering distinctive web presences for organisations that need the Strapi migration destination to stand out visually as well as function correctly technically.

Hourly Rate: Undisclosed | Min. Project Size: Undisclosed

Picodeliq Design Studio operates at the intersection of design craft and web development, with WordPress as a delivery platform. Their studio positioning and Clutch-listed delivery track record reflect a team that takes design output seriously alongside technical function. For Strapi migration clients whose existing decoupled frontend carries distinctive visual design that must survive the platform change, Picodeliq's design-first culture delivers a WordPress destination that is built with aesthetic precision rather than assembled from stock templates.

For organisations where the migration motivation includes a brand or visual refresh alongside the technical platform change, Picodeliq's combined design and development capability removes the coordination overhead of managing separate creative and technical agencies.

• Design studio with WordPress web development capability and craft-focused design output
• Clutch-listed with verified design studio delivery track record
• Design-first culture: visual precision and brand quality as primary delivery standards
• Relevant for Strapi migration clients with visually distinctive frontends and design refresh requirements
• Combined design and development capability for single-vendor migration and destination build
• Accessible for organisations where migration is paired with a brand or visual identity upgrade

Three Questions That Filter This List in Under Ten Minutes

If you are on a call with a potential Strapi migration partner, these three questions surface platform knowledge faster than any capability deck.

Question one: Walk me through how you extract content from a Strapi v5 instance with dynamic zones. The correct answer describes authenticating against the Strapi API with an API token scoped to read permissions, querying each collection type endpoint with full population of relations and dynamic zone components using the ?populate=* parameter or a more targeted population strategy for large schemas, paginating through the results for large collections, parsing the dynamic zone array to identify component types and their field values, and transforming the resulting JSON into WordPress-importable format. An agency that pivots to describing their "general CMS migration approach" has not done this for Strapi specifically.

Question two: Show me a URL mapping document from a prior CMS migration. This is the fastest filter on the list. A professional migration produces a spreadsheet with source URLs from a pre-migration crawl, destination URLs on WordPress, redirect type (301), SEO value classification, and validation status post-migration. If an agency cannot produce a prior example of this document, the redirect mapping on your project will be improvised rather than planned.

Question three: How do you handle Strapi media asset metadata during the migration? The correct answer describes querying the Strapi uploads table or media library API to extract alt text, captions, and custom metadata alongside binary file URLs, transferring files to the WordPress media library, and populating WordPress's attachment post meta fields including _wp_attachment_image_alt with the migrated alt text values. An agency that describes "copying files to the uploads folder" has not thought about the metadata problem.

The Mistakes That Cause Post-Migration Rework

Not reading Strapi's dynamic zone structure before scoping the ACF Flexible Content architecture. Dynamic zones can have five component types or thirty. The number and nesting depth of allowed components directly determines how many ACF Flexible Content layouts need to be built, how long the WordPress destination configuration takes, and how the editorial team's experience differs from the original Strapi interface. Discovering this mid-migration rather than at scoping is how timelines double.

Using Strapi's CSV export for content with relations. Strapi's admin panel export does not populate relation fields. It exports the relation field values as IDs. Importing those IDs into WordPress without first resolving them to WordPress post IDs produces a WordPress database full of ACF relationship fields containing Strapi integers that have no meaning in the WordPress context.

Skipping the headless WordPress evaluation for clients who chose Strapi for API-first architecture. If your Strapi client built a Next.js frontend consuming Strapi's API, migrating them to traditional WordPress may recreate the same editorial dependency problem that motivated the original Strapi choice. The correct question is whether the migration destination should be headless WordPress with WPGraphQL (preserving the frontend, replacing the API source) or traditional WordPress (replacing both backend and frontend). Defaulting to traditional WordPress for every Strapi migration without this conversation is an architectural decision made by omission.

Not defining the post-launch monitoring period in the migration contract. Strapi-to-WordPress migration issues surface when real editorial teams start using ACF Flexible Content layouts that were not exercised in staging QA, when real API consumers hit WordPress endpoints that were not validated against the original Strapi response format, and when real search traffic hits redirects that were missed in the mapping document. These issues appear in the first four to eight weeks after go-live. Agencies that end engagement at DNS cutover are closing the relationship at the beginning of the highest-risk window.

Choosing a WordPress developer who has not seen Strapi before. WordPress development skills and Strapi-to-WordPress migration skills are different disciplines. The gap is in the extraction layer, not the destination. The best WordPress developer you have ever worked with may have never queried a Strapi API endpoint, populated a dynamic zone relation, or handled Strapi's media library export. Platform-specific migration experience is not excessive diligence as an evaluation criterion, it is the minimum necessary filter.

The Production-Ready Strapi Migration

The organisations successfully migrating from Strapi to WordPress in 2026 are not the ones cutting corners on the content type mapping phase to get to the "real work" faster. They are the ones who treat the discovery phase as the most important technical investment in the engagement, because every architectural decision made correctly before extraction begins is one less expensive fix required after go-live.

EbizON's Strapi to WordPress Migration practice is built around that principle. Discovery first, mapping document before extraction, API extraction with full relation population, media metadata preserved alongside binary files, redirect mapping from the live frontend crawl, staging-environment execution, post-launch monitoring with the migration team. 2,200+ delivered solutions. The full methodology, no shortcuts.

Talk to the EbizON team — and get the technical discovery conversation before any scope or timeline is committed.

FAQs

What is the correct API endpoint structure for extracting Strapi v5 content for WordPress import?

In Strapi v5, content is accessed via the Document Service API which replaced the Entity Service. REST API endpoints follow the pattern /api/content-type-uid for collection types and /api/single-type-uid for single types. Authentication uses API tokens passed via the Authorization: Bearer header. For full content extraction including populated relations and dynamic zone components, use the ?populate=* parameter for shallow population or build a more targeted populate object for complex schemas with deeply nested components. Strapi v5 pagination uses page and pageSize query parameters. For large collections, implement pagination with automatic cursor tracking using the meta.pagination.page and meta.pagination.pageCount response fields to iterate through all entries before transformation.

How do you map Strapi dynamic zones to WordPress when using ACF?

Strapi dynamic zones map to ACF Flexible Content fields in WordPress (requires ACF Pro). Each component type allowed in a dynamic zone becomes a named layout in the Flexible Content field. The layout's sub-fields are designed to match the original Strapi component schema field-for-field. For example, a Strapi HeroBlock component with a title text field, a subtitle text field, and a backgroundImage media field becomes an ACF Flexible Content layout named hero_block with a text sub-field for title, a text sub-field for subtitle, and an image sub-field for background_image. This mapping must be fully designed and documented before content extraction begins. The ACF Flexible Content field must be registered and its layouts must be built before the import scripts can write to them.

How does relation resolution work when extracting from Strapi and importing to WordPress?

Strapi stores relations as references to entry IDs within the same Strapi instance. When you query a collection type entry, relation fields return the related entry's document ID unless you explicitly populate them. The extraction process must: populate all relation fields using the ?populate parameter, capture the related entry's content or a stable identifier (such as a slug or title), create the related WordPress post first during import if it does not exist, and then create the relationship in WordPress using the ACF relationship field or post meta with the correct WordPress post ID. Circular relations, where type A relates to type B which relates back to type A, require a two-pass import: create all posts in the first pass with placeholder relationships, then resolve and update relationships in the second pass once all post IDs are known.

What are the differences between migrating from Strapi v4 and Strapi v5?

The primary difference is the content access layer. Strapi v4 uses the Entity Service API and REST endpoints under /api/. Strapi v5 deprecated the Entity Service in favour of the Document Service, which introduces a unified document concept covering draft, published, and localized content variants as a single entity. Extraction scripts written for v4 using the entity-level APIs need modification for v5. The Document Service in v5 also changes how draft and published versions are handled: both coexist as variants of the same document, so extraction scripts must explicitly target the published variant using the status=published filter parameter if the migration should only transfer published content.

Can the existing React or Next.js frontend be preserved when migrating the Strapi backend to WordPress?

Yes, and this is often the most efficient migration path for organisations that specifically value their decoupled frontend. WordPress provides a REST API at /wp-json/wp/v2/ and GraphQL via the WPGraphQL plugin. The API endpoint mapping from Strapi to WordPress requires documenting each Strapi collection type endpoint, its field schema, and the corresponding WordPress endpoint and field mapping. The frontend application then needs its API base URL updated and its field references adjusted where WordPress field naming differs from Strapi. This approach eliminates frontend rebuild risk and significantly reduces the migration scope. The trade-off is that WordPress-specific editorial features like Full Site Editing and Gutenberg blocks are not available to editors if the frontend remains decoupled.

How should Strapi's media library metadata be handled during the migration?

Strapi stores media metadata in the uploads table including the file's name, alternativeText (used as alt text), caption, and width/height dimensions, alongside the binary file URL. The migration process should query the Strapi /api/upload/files endpoint to retrieve all media entries with their metadata, download binary files, upload them to the WordPress media library via the WordPress REST API /wp-json/wp/v2/media endpoint, and then update each created attachment post's meta with the migrated alternativeText value via the _wp_attachment_image_alt meta key. If the existing frontend referenced Strapi media URLs in content, those URLs must also be replaced with WordPress media library URLs during the content transformation stage.

How long does a Strapi to WordPress migration take?

Timeline depends heavily on content model complexity. A focused migration with straightforward collection types and no dynamic zones typically runs 4 to 6 weeks. A standard enterprise migration with dynamic zones, relational content, and multiple integrations runs 7 to 11 weeks per the rtCamp enterprise migration guide based on 300+ CMS migrations. Migrations for large media operations with 50,000+ content items, deeply nested dynamic zones, and extensive many-to-many relations require 12 to 16 weeks or more. The discovery phase alone, covering content type mapping, relation documentation, integration inventory, and redirect planning, takes 2 to 3 weeks on a complex enterprise engagement.

What security considerations apply to the WordPress destination for a Strapi migration?

Strapi's Node.js stack and WordPress's PHP stack have different attack surface profiles. Key WordPress security actions for a migrated enterprise site include enabling a WAF via Wordfence or Sucuri, disabling the default admin username, moving wp-config.php above the web root, restricting direct access to xmlrpc.php if the XML-RPC API is not needed, enabling login brute force protection, configuring a non-default database table prefix during installation, running regular security scans, and keeping WordPress core, themes, and plugins current with automatic security updates enabled. For enterprise deployments on WordPress VIP, platform-level security controls address most of these at the infrastructure layer. The security configuration should be documented as a formal milestone deliverable in the migration scope.

What is the correct approach to 301 redirect mapping for a Strapi to WordPress migration?

Step one is a pre-migration crawl of the live production frontend using Screaming Frog or Sitebulb. This produces the authoritative list of indexed URLs, which are the routes generated by the frontend router, not the content paths in Strapi's admin. Step two is building the URL mapping document with source URL, destination WordPress URL, redirect type (301), SEO value classification based on organic traffic and inbound link data from Google Search Console and Ahrefs or SEMrush, and validation status. Step three is implementing redirects in WordPress via the Redirection plugin or nginx configuration. Step four is a post-migration crawl before DNS cutover to validate that every source URL returns a 301 to the correct destination with no chains or loops. Missing this validation before go-live is how post-migration 404s on high-value pages go undetected until they appear in Search Console.

What WordPress plugins are typically needed on the destination site after a Strapi migration?

The standard plugin stack for a Strapi migration destination includes Advanced Custom Fields Pro for ACF Flexible Content fields replicating dynamic zones, Custom Post Type UI for registering custom post types matching Strapi collection types, Yoast SEO or Rank Math for metadata and schema, WPGraphQL if the existing frontend is being preserved in headless architecture, WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache for performance caching, Wordfence for security, Redirection for 301 redirect management, UpdraftPlus for backups, and WP All Import if batch content import is part of the migration toolchain. For multilingual Strapi sites, WPML or Polylang replaces Strapi's built-in internationalisation layer.

Why should I choose EbizON for my Strapi to WordPress migration?

EbizON's Strapi to WordPress Migration practice is built around the technical specifics that determine whether a Strapi migration requires post-launch rework or delivers correctly the first time. Their discovery phase produces a written content type mapping document before any API call is made, covering every collection type, dynamic zone component layout, relation field, and integration point. The extraction process uses Strapi's REST API with full population of relations and dynamic zone components, resolves relation IDs before import, and carries media alt text and captions alongside binary files. The 301 redirect mapping is built from a live frontend crawl rather than a Strapi content tree export. The migration executes in a staging environment with the live Strapi installation operational throughout. Post-launch monitoring is contracted and staffed by the same team that designed the content architecture. With 2,200+ delivered solutions and a track record across focused and enterprise-scale migrations, EbizON is the partner engineering teams choose when the migration needs to be technically correct from day one.