How long does a WordPress to Statamic migration take?

Most migrations take somewhere between four and sixteen weeks. That range sounds wide, but the variation is real — a straightforward brochure site with a few dozen pages lands at the short end, while a large site with complex custom post types, advanced plugin integrations, and thousands of pages of content can easily fill out the longer end.

The first thing that drives timeline is scope assessment. Before any migration work begins, we do a WordPress site audit to understand what’s actually there: content volume, custom field structures, plugin dependencies, third-party integrations, and anything that might need custom handling on the Statamic side. That audit is what makes it possible to give you a realistic timeline rather than a guess.

Content migration is often the biggest time variable. How long it takes depends heavily on how your WordPress site was built. A site using the block editor with fairly standard content is one thing, but a site built on a page builder like Divi, Elementor, or WPBakery is a completely different challenge — there’s no off-the-shelf tooling to extract that content cleanly into Statamic. That’s where our experience matters. We’ve built our own migration scripts over years of doing this work, and we know how to get content out of these systems in a way that preserves what matters.

Beyond the content itself, there’s the structural work: mapping your WordPress taxonomy and custom post type relationships to Statamic’s collections and taxonomies, deciding which ACF field groups become which Statamic blueprints, and making sure the relationships between content types are preserved correctly. If your content was added inconsistently over the years (and it usually was), there’s often some cleanup involved.

Theme and template work is the other major factor. Statamic uses Antlers (its own templating language) or Blade, so your WordPress PHP templates don’t carry over directly. How long this takes depends heavily on design complexity — a site built on a stock WordPress theme takes less time than a custom-built theme with dozens of unique layouts. If you’re redesigning at the same time as migrating, that adds scope.

Plugin replacement is usually less time-consuming than people expect, because many WordPress plugins solve problems that Statamic handles natively or more simply. But some integrations — WooCommerce, membership systems, complex forms with conditional logic — need more careful planning. A few might require custom addon development.

The honest answer is that we can give you a solid timeline estimate once we’ve looked at your site. You can start with our WordPress to Statamic migration service page or get in touch to talk through your situation.

One thing worth noting: rushing a migration tends to create problems that take longer to fix than doing it right the first time. SEO continuity, content structure, and editor experience all benefit from careful planning upfront.