The short answer: if your WordPress site makes work for you or costs more every year, yes. If it does something a static site can’t, no.
Stay with WordPress if
- You sell online, with a cart and payments.
- You have a members’ area, with people who log in.
- Someone on your team maintains it and is happy to.
In those cases, switching saves you nothing.
Switch if
- Your hosting renewal goes up every year.
- Nobody updates the site, and the dashboard is full of warnings.
- It’s slow on a phone.
A static site needs no updates, is usually free to host and loads fast. I show the numbers in what a website really costs. If you want to see why, with drawings, read how your website works.
How the move works, step by step
- I list what your site has: pages, blog posts, photos and forms.
- I make the new site with the same addresses, so Google keeps finding every page. You see it at a private address while I work.
- We put the new site live on your usual domain.
- We move your email, if it comes with your hosting.
- You cancel the hosting, once everything works.
Step 4 is the one people forget. If your address is hello@yourbusiness.com and you set it up with your host, your email lives there. Cancel the hosting before you move it, and your email is gone.
What it costs
It depends on the size. A small site, with three or four pages, usually costs less if I rebuild it with fresh text. A site with years of blog posts is worth moving across in full. You’ll find prices on the web design page.
If you’re not sure what’s right for you, book a free 20-minute call and we’ll look at it together. Sometimes the answer is to stay.