We Migrated an Umbraco Website to WordPress — Here's What We Learned

Many businesses start with Umbraco because it's powerful and flexible.

But over the last few years, we've noticed more companies asking to migrate from Umbraco to WordPress.

After working on multiple CMS migration projects, a few patterns keep showing up.

Why companies move away from Umbraco
Content updates often require technical knowledge.
Finding experienced Umbraco developers can be expensive.
Plugin and theme ecosystems are much smaller.
Marketing teams usually want a CMS that's easier to manage.
The biggest migration challenges

The migration isn't just copying pages.

Some of the real challenges include:

✅ Preserving SEO rankings

✅ Redirecting old URLs correctly

✅ Migrating media files

✅ Moving blogs and custom content

✅ Rebuilding forms and custom functionality

One incorrect redirect or missing metadata can cost months of SEO progress.

What worked well for us

Our migration process usually follows these steps:

Full content audit
SEO URL mapping
Content migration
Theme development
Plugin replacement
Performance optimization
QA before launch

Taking time on the planning phase prevents most post-launch issues.

My question to the community

If you've migrated from another CMS to WordPress:

What was the hardest part?
Did anything break that you didn't expect?
Would you choose WordPress again today?

I recently documented our complete migration process, common mistakes, SEO checklist, and estimated timeline here:

👉 https://www.psdtohtmlninja.com/blog/umbraco-to-wordpress-migration

Would love to hear how others have handled CMS migrations.