Off WordPress · remote, worldwide
Keep the website.
Leave WordPress behind.
We rebuild your existing site without WordPress — same content, same design intent, same URLs — and hand you the code.
- You own the finished code
- Your URLs and content are preserved
- Plugin and builder dependency removed
- Ongoing support is optional
Best for brochure, service and lead-generation websites. Shops, memberships, learning platforms and complex applications may be better staying on WordPress — and if yours is one of those, the scan says so.
Page weight
40.6 MB40.6 MB
98% lighter
Load time
5.94s5.94s
3.1x faster
Requests
118118
59% fewer
Plugins to keep patched
77
nothing to patch
One real clinic, measured 21 August 2026 on https://www.re-dental.co.nz/ against our rebuild of it. Not a lab score.
Proof, not a mockup
A real Auckland clinic's WordPress site, rebuilt
Their photos, their words, their layout. Both panes below are live pages, not screenshots — scroll them, click their menus.
Page weight
98% lighter
Load time
3.1x faster
Bars are to scale. Measured 21 August 2026 on https://www.re-dental.co.nz/ and our rebuild of it — three cold loads each in headless Chrome at 1440x900, cache disabled, waitUntil networkidle2, median run kept; bytes are summed response bodies.
Their homepage ships a 27 MB animated GIF. Ours ships a 0.5 MB video of it, and half the requests — with the same content on the page. That gap is what plugin and builder overhead costs every time somebody on a phone taps their ad.
Their live site, captured whole on 21 August 2026 — Elementor, 485 files.
Both panes are the real pages, not screenshots — scroll each one, click through their menus, or open either in its own tab.
Free, and it tells you if moving is not worth it.
Free, no call required
Scan your site
Two fields. We read your homepage the way any visitor's browser does and tell you one of three things:
- Good migration candidateWith a price band and a timeline.
- Needs a manual reviewSomething cannot be priced from outside. We say what, and look by hand.
- Better off staying on WordPressShops, memberships and learning platforms usually are.
We would rather lose the job than sell a migration that does not pay for itself.
Best for brochure, service and lead-generation websites. Shops, memberships, learning platforms and complex applications may be better staying on WordPress — and if yours is one of those, the scan says so.
The part that matters most
Six things renewing, or one thing you own.
A plugin-heavy WordPress site is a rental agreement with several landlords. What we hand over is an asset with your name on it.
What you rent today
- Managed WordPress hostingrenewed yearly
- Page-builder licencerenewed yearly
- SEO plugin licencerenewed yearly
- Security plugin licencerenewed yearly
- Reviews + bookings widgetsrenewed monthly
- Agency maintenance retainermonthly
What you own after
Your website, in your repository
One thing, with your name on it. Nothing above it renews, lapses or has to be patched.
Care planoptional
Hosting, backups and monitoring, if you want us to run it. Stop paying and the site is still yours — the dashed line is the point.
The code, in your repository
A GitHub account in your business name, with the full source. Fire us on a Tuesday; the site is still yours on Wednesday.
Host it anywhere
With us, or on your own account for a few dollars a month. No proprietary runtime holding it hostage.
Nothing expires
No licence that lapses, no widget that starts watermarking itself, no theme that loses support.
What it costs, both ways
The bill nobody adds up
Hosting, a builder licence, an SEO plugin, a security plugin, the review and booking widgets, and whoever keeps it alive — at list price, with the source for every line.
Midpoint of NZ$178–NZ$536, at list price.
The optional Care plan. No licences, nothing that renews.
NZ$0less every month, at the midpoint — before counting the hour someone spends when an update breaks a page.
Agency-managed WordPress
Managed WordPress hostingNZ$30–NZ$58PrestoWP (NZ) from NZ$30/mo +GST; WP Engine from US$25/mo, Kinsta Starter from US$35/mo. source
Elementor Pro licenceNZ$8–NZ$14US$59/yr for one site; US$99/yr for three. source
Yoast SEO PremiumNZ$16US$118.80/yr per site. source
- Security + firewall (Wordfence Premium)NZ$16–NZ$20
US$119–149/yr for one site. source
Google reviews widgetNZ$9–NZ$15Trustindex US$65/yr single site, or Elfsight US$9/mo. source
Bookings plugin or schedulerNZ$20–NZ$33Calendly Standard US$12/user, Teams US$20/user; Amelia and Bookly sit in the same band. source
- Agency maintenance retainerNZ$79–NZ$380
NZ$50–199/mo is the common NZ small-business band; AU agencies quote A$90–380/mo standard. source
Not every site carries all seven lines. The scan tells you which of them yours does.
One-off migrationthe migration
Fixed quoteonce
Quoted from the scan and a parity review of your actual pages. You own the finished code either way.
- Content and media exported from WordPress
- Rebuilt without WordPress, page builder or plugin runtime
- Every existing URL mapped and 301 redirected, titles and structured data carried across
- Forms, bookings, reviews and chat rewired to their real sources
- Launch, sitemap resubmission, a fortnight of Search Console watching
- The code handed over in a repository in your business name
Careoptional
NZ$99per month
Keeps the site running. Cancel it and the site is still yours — take the repository and host it anywhere.
- Hosting and SSL
- Daily backups
- Uptime and security monitoring
- Content changes on request, live the same or next working day
- Editor access where the site suits one
- New pages, new sections and new layouts are quoted separately
Growth Careoptional
NZ$299per month
Everything in Care, plus new work each month. For businesses actually publishing.
- Everything in Care
- One new page, or two content updates, every month
- Requested in plain English, built with Codex and Claude, reviewed and published by a person
- SEO upkeep: titles, internal links, sitemap and Search Console watched monthly
- Unused months do not roll over
- Redesigns, integrations and structural changes are quoted separately
What a real one costs
NZ$3,200–NZ$4,400
A nine-page Auckland dental clinic on Elementor, 12 posts, no shop — re-dental.co.nz, the site in the comparison above. 3–6 working days. Your number comes from the scan, before you commit to anything.
Get my numberSubscriptions that end on launch day
- Elementor
- Yoast SEO
- WP Engine
- Kinsta
- Calendly
What runs the site afterwards
Vercel
Cloudflare
GitHub
Every figure on this page is NZD, GST exclusive — USD list prices converted at 1.65 and shown as their monthly share where billed annually. Clients outside New Zealand are invoiced in NZD or its USD equivalent on the day.
The first question everyone asks
“But my plugins — do they still update themselves?”
Yes. What changes is where the live data comes from: instead of a plugin renting you a connection to Google or your calendar, the site talks to them directly and you own the connection.
Google reviews
Trustindex / Elfsight / Site Reviews widget
Your reviews, pulled straight from Googlestays live
Pulled nightly from your own Google Business Profile once Google approves our access to it — every review, no licence and no view cap. That approval is not instant and Google publishes no turnaround, so until it lands the site shows the five reviews the free public API allows.
Bookings
Amelia, Bookly, Simply Schedule
Cal.com or your existing booking system, embeddedstays live
Real-time — the same calendar your staff already work from, not a copy.
Contact + quote forms
Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7
A form wired to your inbox and your CRMstays live
Instant, with spam filtering. Every submission is stored too, so a bounced email is not a lost lead.
Live chat
Tidio, Tawk plugin
Tawk.to or Crisp, embedded directlystays live
Identical to today — these were never WordPress features, only wrappers around a script tag.
SEO
Yoast Premium, Rank Math Pro
Titles, descriptions, schema and sitemap built into the sitestays live
Automatic. The sitemap regenerates when a page changes; no plugin to configure or renew.
Social feeds
Smash Balloon, Instagram feed plugins
Your Instagram or Facebook feed pulled by APIstays live
Refreshed on a schedule, same as the plugin did — but we own the connection, so a lapsed licence cannot break it.
Online shop
WooCommerce + extensions
Stripe checkout, or Shopify if the catalogue is largestays live
Live stock and live payments.
Page builder
Elementor Pro, Divi, WPBakery
Nothing. The layout is the site.gone for good
The one thing that does not come with you, and that is the point — the builder is what you were renting.
On Google reviews: the free public API returns five and forbids storing them, which is why the widgets charge a subscription. We connect to your own Business Profile instead. Google has to approve that access and publishes no turnaround, so until it lands you see the same five — we tell you which of the two you are on at launch.
WordPress security · 2025
0
new vulnerabilities disclosed across the WordPress ecosystem in 2025 — one every 46 minutes. Patching them is what the maintenance retainer is really buying.
Up 42% in a single year.
0%
of them were in plugins
Not in WordPress itself — in the add-ons. A site with no plugin directory and no admin login has nothing there to disclose.
How you get new work done afterwards
Ask for a new page in plain English
You describe what you want. We build it with Codex and Claude, a person reviews and tests it, and it goes live. You never open a code editor and never touch production.
you
You describe it
In an email or a message. “A team page with photos and bios”, “a pricing table like this one”. No brief, no ticket system, no jargon.
us
We build it
Codex and Claude write the change against your codebase. That is why a new page takes hours rather than the week an agency quotes.
us
A person reviews it
On a phone and on a desktop: layout, contrast, keyboard access, page speed, titles and structured data. Nothing goes out unread.
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It goes live
Published to your site, with the change in your repository. You never open a code editor and never see production break.
To be clear: there is no self-serve AI dashboard to log into, and you are never expected to use an AI coding tool. You send a message, a human signs the work off. Growth Care covers one new page or two content updates a month; anything larger is quoted first.
How the move goes
Four steps, and you see it before it goes live
01
Scan
A price band and an honest verdict — including “don't bother”.
02
Rebuild
Same look, same content. You review it on a private link while your site carries on untouched.
03
Parity check
Every old URL mapped, meta and structured data carried over, forms tested. You get the list.
04
Launch
We switch the domain and watch Search Console for a fortnight. Your old site stays intact until you are happy.
Straight answers
Questions we get on every call
Will my Google reviews still update automatically?
Yes. Once Google approves our access to your Business Profile, your reviews are pulled on a nightly schedule — all of them, not the five the free public API returns, and with no subscription and no view cap. Google's approval for that API is not instant and they publish no turnaround, so until it comes through the site shows the five reviews the free API allows. We tell you which of the two you are on at launch.
Do I lose my Google rankings?
Nobody can promise you will not move. Google says plainly that a site migration can cause temporary ranking fluctuations while it recrawls, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. What we can do is remove every avoidable cause: your URLs stay the same wherever possible, every old URL is mapped and given a permanent 301 redirect, titles, meta descriptions and structured data come across, the sitemap is resubmitted on launch, and we watch Search Console for a fortnight afterwards and fix what it flags. You get the parity report listing every old URL and where it now points, so nothing is taken on trust.
Can I still edit the site myself?
Text, images, prices, opening hours, staff and blog posts, yes — from a simple editor where the site suits one, or by sending us the change and having it live the same or next working day. What you cannot do is break the layout, because the layout is not stored in a database that an editing mistake can corrupt. Anything bigger than a content change — a new page, a new section, a new layout — you ask for in plain English and we build it.
What if I want a whole new section later?
You describe it in plain English — “a team page like the one on this site”, “a pricing table”. We build it with Codex and Claude behind the scenes, a person reviews it on mobile and desktop and checks accessibility and SEO, then it goes live. Growth Care covers one new page or two content updates a month; anything larger is quoted. Because you own the code you are never forced back to us — any developer can pick it up.
What do I actually own at the end?
The code, in a repository in your name; the domain; the content; and the hosting account. If you stop paying us, the site keeps running and someone else can pick it up. That is not true of a page builder licence.
We are not in New Zealand. Can you still do it?
Yes. The work is remote start to finish — we scan the site, rebuild it, show you a private link and switch the domain over without anyone being in the room. Any timezone, calls at a time that suits yours. Quoted in New Zealand dollars, or the USD equivalent on the day, and stated before you commit.
How long does it take?
A typical small-business site is three to eight working days from go-ahead to launch, including the parity check. We build it first and only switch the domain over once you have seen it.
Find out what your site is really costing you
Two fields. You get back what it is built on, what moving it would cost, and whether it is worth doing — including when it is not.