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What to Check Before Migrating an Old WordPress Site
Before migrating, check your access credentials, your current content volume, what plugins the site depends on, and your domain/email DNS records. Knowing these upfront cuts down migration problems significantly.
Check your access credentials
Confirm whether you have access to the WordPress admin, your hosting control panel, and your domain registrar's dashboard. Even without contact from your original developer, migration can usually proceed as long as you have hosting and domain access.
Know your content and media volume
Knowing your post count, page count, and total media volume (images, audio) makes it much easier to estimate a realistic migration timeline and cost.
Check plugin dependencies
Identify how many plugins your site depends on and what kind. Plugins tied deeply into the database structure — WooCommerce, membership systems, booking systems — add real complexity to a migration.
Record your domain and email settings
Record your DNS records (MX, SPF, DKIM, and similar) ahead of time. This is what prevents email from silently breaking after migration.
The risk of skipping this
Migrating without this groundwork can lead to lost content, SEO impact from unplanned URL changes, and email that stops arriving.
Recommended next step
Starting with the free diagnostic gives you an objective read on your current site's condition and makes clear what preparation is actually needed.
Start by finding out what's still valuable on your current site.
Just send the URL — we'll examine what's there now, the technical risks, and what migration could look like.