Migration

You do not have to look far for examples of what happens when a legacy application modernization plan, which made sense on a slide deck, goes wrong. Knight Capital’s $440 million write-off in under an hour was the result of a deployment that woke up some dormant code no one had any recollection of. TSB […]

It is rare for a WordPress migration to go awry on the day of launch. More often it is three weeks down the line when marketing spots a category page putting out a soft 404, or finance can no longer make sense of last week’s WooCommerce and Stripe figures. Perhaps the contact forms have been […]

A TechnologyChecker dataset puts the numbers in perspective: for every company that makes the switch from WordPress to Joomla, there are some five or six going the other way. Out of 42,000 moves from Joomla to WordPress, only about 8,500 have been recorded in reverse. It is a durable trend. What does not get reported […]

You will not find a one-click solution for moving a site from Webflow to WordPress. Any agency page with integrity, any migration document or practitioner thread will tell you the same. In truth, what is billed as a change of platform is more like a partial rebuild: you have to export what you can, make […]

A WordPress migration rarely fails on launch day. It fails three weeks later, when marketing notices that a category page responsible for a third of blog traffic is returning a soft 404, or when finance cannot reconcile last week’s Stripe transactions with the WooCommerce order log. By then the launch team has already declared victory […]

You will not find most legacy modernization projects failing at the rewrite. The trouble comes in the months leading up to it, when you have an aging system dictating some obscure business rule nobody can quite recall while payroll has to run and orders must ship. That is the gap where sponsors get testy and […]

You will not find the difficulty of legacy software modernization in the new system. The hard part is those months in between, while the old platform is still on life support, running payroll and taking orders and hoarding every business rule that was never put to paper. Most programs come to grief in that gap, […]

You won’t see a WordPress to Shopify migration go wrong on launch day. It is three weeks down the line that you will have your troubles. That is when the marketing team puts two and two together and finds that a 404 is being served for a blog category page which was once responsible for […]

You will find the same five-step recipe in most Squarespace to WordPress migration guides: get your XML, put down WordPress, run the importer, choose a theme and point the domain. The steps are there, but they are the easy part of the job. The importer does not touch the hard stuff: the URLs, redirects, media […]