WORDPRESS TO FRAMER
WordPress to Framer migration, with your blog and your rankings intact
Plenor moves WordPress sites to Framer in 3 to 5 weeks, from $3,500, with blog posts imported into the Framer CMS and every old permalink mapped and redirected before the switch. One designer does the work, an Official Framer Expert, and your marketing team edits the new site from launch day without a developer, a page builder or a plugin update.
Written by Ognjen Milutinovic, Official Framer Expert · Updated October 2026
Why teams move from WordPress to Framer
A WordPress marketing site is rarely one tool. It is a theme, a page builder like Elementor and a stack of plugins for SEO, forms, caching, security and backups, each updating on its own schedule. Any edit bigger than a sentence goes through whoever knows how they fit together.
Framer replaces that stack with one design tool and its own hosting. Your marketing lead can duplicate a section, change a layout and publish, and there is nothing to patch, cache or back up.
If WordPress runs your shop or your member area, that part should not move, and we say so on the first call.
What moves from WordPress to Framer, and how
Pages. Rebuilt in Framer on a page system, every breakpoint. Theme and page-builder layouts do not export to any other tool, so nothing is copied across as code. We rebuild faithfully or redesign on the way, your call.
Blog posts. Imported into a Framer CMS collection, with title, slug, date, author, category, featured image and body mapped field by field. Shortcodes and page-builder markup mean nothing outside WordPress, so post bodies are cleaned on import, not pasted raw.
Categories. The ones that earn traffic become a small CMS collection with a page each. The rest redirect to the blog.
Media library. Only the images in use move to Framer’s hosting. WordPress saves several sizes of every upload; the unused ones stay behind.
Yoast or Rank Math settings. Each post’s SEO title and meta description come across as CMS fields, written out in full where the plugin built them from variables. Framer’s own sitemap.xml replaces the plugin’s sitemap_index.xml.
Redirects you already have. The list in Yoast Premium or the Redirection plugin comes across into Framer’s redirect settings, so old fixes keep working.
WordPress plugins in Framer: what replaces each one
Every active plugin goes on the audit list and gets one of three outcomes before we quote.
Framer does it natively. Page builders (Elementor, Divi), SEO plugins (Yoast, Rank Math), caching, image optimization, sitemaps and simple contact forms. Analytics tags move into Framer’s site settings.
A hosted tool or a code component takes over. Forms with logic become Tally, booking becomes Cal.com, and a pricing calculator becomes a Framer code component.
Dropped. Security, backup and update-manager plugins, because there is no WordPress install left to protect. Post comments too: Framer has no comment system.
How Plenor maps WordPress permalinks and 301 redirects
An older WordPress site often carries several URL patterns. Each goes into the redirect map:
Posts at /blog/post-name keep that address in the Framer CMS.
Date-based and root-level permalinks (/2023/04/12/post-name/, /post-name/) each get a 301 to the post’s new address.
Archives. /category/name/ goes to that category’s new page, or to the blog if it never earned traffic. Tag, author and paginated archives redirect to the blog or the closest category.
Plain links like /?p=123 keep the post ID in a query string, so they need their own rule. We check Search Console for them first; Google has usually dropped them on sites that moved to readable permalinks long ago.
Image URLs under /wp-content/uploads/ that earn image-search traffic go into the map like any page.
The 301s go live the same minute the DNS does.
What stays on WordPress, and what to do instead
Honest list. Some of a WordPress site should not move, and a migration that pretends otherwise breaks the part you sell with.
WooCommerce. Framer is not a store. Keep the shop on a subdomain, on WordPress or Shopify, and link to it.
Member areas and courses (MemberPress, LearnDash). Use Memberstack or Outseta on top of Framer, or keep that part on WordPress behind a proxy.
Very large blogs. Framer’s CMS is comfortable into the hundreds of items. Past that, move the marketing pages first and leave the blog on WordPress behind a proxy until you are ready.
Custom PHP and server code. Anything that runs on your server stays on a server.
How Plenor runs a WordPress migration, in six steps
01
Audit and URL inventory (days 1 to 3)
Crawl the site, export Search Console, list every indexed URL and every active plugin.
02
Content export and CMS map (days 3 to 5)
Export the posts, map their fields to a Framer collection, and agree what each plugin becomes.
03
Rebuild in Framer (weeks 1 to 3)
Design system first, then pages. You see the homepage direction within the first week.
04
Redirects and technical SEO (week 3 or 4)
Titles, descriptions, canonicals, sitemap, schema and the full 301 map, tested on the staging URL before launch.
05
DNS and cutover (launch day)
The domain moves from your WordPress host to Framer with you on a call. The WordPress site stays reachable until the new one is verified.
06
The 30-day watch
Search Console, broken links and crawl errors, fixed as they appear and included in the price.
What a WordPress to Framer migration costs
Fixed price, quoted once, before we start. No hourly billing. The same tiers as every Plenor migration, each with the blog import, URL mapping, 301 redirects and the DNS move:
Up to 5 pages: $3,500, 3 weeks
Up to 8 pages: $4,500, 4 weeks
Up to 12 pages: $6,000, 5 weeks
Need more? An extra page is $650. Blog posts beyond the first 20 are $300 per 20, so a WordPress blog with 100 posts adds $1,200. Full copywriting, extra code components and integrations are quoted on the call, in the same fixed number.
Framer’s site plan is paid to Framer directly, outside Plenor’s price, and replaces the WordPress host, the security plugin, the backup subscription and the premium plugin licences. The full tier comparison is on the Framer migration page, and every other Plenor price is on what a Framer website costs.
Plenor’s WordPress to Framer work: AceUp and Zero Longevity
AceUp, an AI leadership coaching platform with a $22.5M Series A, moved its marketing site from WordPress to Framer in 2026. Plenor designed and built the new site in Framer: homepage, demo page, five solution pages on one shared structure, and two CMS collections for the webinars and whitepapers that had lived on WordPress, seeded from the existing content. AceUp’s own team ran the cutover and has been editing the site since.
Zero Longevity, the world’s #1 fasting app, runs the hybrid setup: the marketing pages Plenor designed and built live on Framer, the blog stayed on WordPress behind a proxy, and the whole thing serves 700,000 visitors a month.
Questions before moving from WordPress to Framer
Who offers WordPress to Framer migration services?
Plenor, the design studio of Ognjen Milutinovic, an Official Framer Expert, moves WordPress sites to Framer for a fixed $3,500 to $6,000 in 3 to 5 weeks. Every migration includes the blog import into the Framer CMS, a 301 redirect for every indexed URL, the DNS move and 30 days of Search Console checks after launch.
Will we lose our Google rankings moving from WordPress to Framer?
Not if the redirects are done. Every indexed URL, including posts, category archives and images that earn traffic, gets a 301 to its new home before DNS changes, and we watch Search Console for 30 days after launch. Rankings usually wobble for one to two weeks while Google recrawls, then settle.
Can you move our WordPress blog into the Framer CMS?
Yes. Posts are imported into a Framer CMS collection, with title, slug, date, author, category, featured image and the Yoast or Rank Math title and description mapped field by field. The first 20 posts are in every tier, then $300 per 20. Framer’s CMS is comfortable into the hundreds of items; past that, the blog can stay on WordPress behind a proxy.
What happens to our WordPress plugins?
Each active plugin is replaced, embedded or dropped, agreed before we quote. Framer covers page builders, SEO plugins, caching and simple forms natively. Forms with logic, booking and calculators become a hosted tool or a Framer code component. Security and backup plugins are dropped, because there is no WordPress install left to protect.
How long does a WordPress to Framer migration take?
Three to five weeks depending on page count: 3 weeks for up to 5 pages, 4 for up to 8, 5 for up to 12. You see the homepage direction inside the first week.
What happens to our WordPress hosting?
Keep it until the new site is live and verified, usually a few days after launch. Then cancel the host, the security plugin and the backup subscription; Framer hosts the new site on its own CDN and you pay Framer’s site plan directly. If the blog or a member area stays on WordPress, that part keeps its hosting.
Do you also migrate from Webflow and Squarespace?
Yes, on the same tiers. Webflow to Framer covers the Webflow specifics, and the Framer migration page covers all three platforms.
Talk to the person who will do the work
No sales team. You book a 30-minute call with Oggie, the Official Framer Expert who builds every Plenor site, and leave with a tier, a timeline and a fixed price. Plenor also designs brands, pitch decks and social creative on the same system, if the move is a chance to refresh more than the site.