Django to WordPress Migration Services

Django is great for building an app. It's a rough tool for running a marketing site once that site needs to move faster than your dev team can ship. A lot of companies build their app in Django, then build the marketing site the same way because it's already there, and eventually realize the two never should have shared a codebase.

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Why WordPress

Why WordPress after Django

Every migration should end with a site that's better than what you had, not just different. Here's what WordPress gives you that Django doesn't.

Marketing team stops waiting on developers for content changes.
Separate your marketing site from your app. Two projects, two stacks, no shared deploy.
Standard SEO tooling. Yoast or Rank Math, structured data, sitemaps, all handled.
Bigger plugin ecosystem than any Django CMS layer.
Faster time to publish. Content changes go live the same day, not the next sprint.

Why us

Why teams leave Django

Django is a real, capable web framework. It's also not a CMS, and businesses that built their marketing site on it usually feel that gap eventually.

No built-in editor for non-developers. Django doesn't ship with a content management interface for marketing teams. Every text change, image swap, or new page typically needs a developer to write and deploy code.
The site and the app got tangled together. When the marketing site lives in the same Django project as the actual product, a "simple" homepage edit can mean touching the same codebase and deploy pipeline as the app itself.
Custom admin panels are fragile. Some Django sites bolt on a custom admin interface, but those are usually built by whoever was available at the time and get harder to maintain once that person moves on.
No plugin ecosystem for common features. Need a contact form, an SEO plugin, or a booking tool? In Django that usually means custom development. In WordPress it usually means an afternoon.
Marketing waits on engineering for everything. Every landing page, blog post, or campaign page competes for the same developer time as actual product work.

Services

What we handle in the migration

Content extraction and migration. We pull your content directly from the Django database or templates and move it into WordPress's structure, checked for accuracy along the way.
Separating site from app. If your marketing site and your product share a Django codebase, we cleanly split them so the site lives in WordPress and the app keeps running exactly as it does now.
URL mapping and 301 redirects. We map your existing URL structure to WordPress and redirect everything, protecting whatever SEO equity your site has built up.
Design rebuild. We recreate your site's design as a proper WordPress theme, so it looks the same (or better) but is editable without a developer.
Editor handoff. Since the whole point is giving marketing control back, we set things up so non-technical staff can update content confidently after launch.

Process

How we handle Django-specific gotchas

The real work is data extraction. Django sites store content in whatever way the original developer designed the database, so there's no standard export format to lean on. We go into the database structure directly, figure out how content is organized, and build a migration path specific to your setup instead of relying on an off-the-shelf import tool.

The second challenge is untangling code from content, especially when the marketing site and the app were built in the same project. Business logic and page content are often mixed together in the templates. We separate the two during the rebuild: your actual content lives in WordPress where marketing can edit it, and anything that needs to stay code-level gets rebuilt properly on the app side instead of copied as-is.

Step zero

Start with a free scoping call

Before we quote anything, we hop on a free 20-30 minute call. We look at your current site together, ask a few questions, and give you a real timeline and price -- not a range pulled out of the air. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so on that call. No hard sell.

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Timeline & investment

What to expect

We'll give you a real number once we've actually looked at your site and how tangled it is with your app, not a guess. Every quote comes after a free 20-30 min call.

Timeline

✓Small marketing sites: 3-4 weeks
✓Mid-sized sites: 4-6 weeks
✓Larger or app-integrated sites: 6+ weeks

Investment

✓Migrations start at $3k. Simple brochure sites usually land here.
✓Larger or custom projects go up from there. We quote after we look at your site, not before.
✓Everything's fixed-fee. No hourly billing, no surprises.

Is this right for you?

Who WordPress migration is (and isn't) a fit for

We'd rather turn down a bad fit than sell you the wrong thing. Here's the straight cut.

You're a fit if

✓The site portion of your Django app has grown into something better handled by a real CMS
✓Your team is tired of building admin UIs for content editors instead of shipping product features
✓Marketing wants to update content without pinging the dev team every time
✓The site and the app can be cleanly separated without breaking anything
✓You're planning to grow content output and don't want engineering as the bottleneck

You probably don't need this if

✗The site IS the app and content is deeply coupled to your Django models and logic
✗You need custom Python business logic embedded in every page
✗You're running tightly-integrated user-generated content workflows that depend on your app's data model

If that's you, we'll say so on our first call. No hard sell.

Good to know

FAQs

Can our marketing team update the site themselves after we migrate?

Yes, and that's usually the main reason people move off a custom Django marketing site in the first place. WordPress gives your team a proper editing interface without needing a developer for routine changes.

Our marketing site and our app share the same Django codebase. Can you separate them?

Usually, yes. That's actually one of the most common reasons companies come to us. We pull the marketing site out into WordPress and leave your app running on Django exactly as it does today.

Our Django site doesn't have a standard export. Is that a problem?

It means more hands-on work, not a dead end. We go directly into your database structure and build a migration path specific to how your site stores content.

Will we lose our Google rankings when we leave Django?

Not if it's done right. We map your existing URLs, set up 301 redirects, and preserve your metadata before launch. Rankings dip when migrations get rushed, not when they're planned out.

How long does a Django to WordPress migration take?

Most moderately complex marketing sites take 6 to 10 weeks. Sites with a lot of business logic tangled into the code can take a few months, and we'll scope that straight after reviewing your codebase.

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Ready to leave Django?

Book a free 20-30 min call. We'll look at your site, tell you what the migration would involve, and quote a real number.

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