Your WordPress site got slower every year you kept it. Here is what that actually costs, and when a rebuild is worth it.
Twenty plugins you cannot remove. A page builder shipping a megabyte before the first paragraph. A maintenance bill that grows while the site gets slower. If that is your site, the first job is measuring which of those is actually costing you, because a rebuild only fixes some of them. Zero plugins. Performance you can measure.
30-min call. Drop your WordPress URL when you book. We run your PageSpeed live and give you a fixed migration quote on the spot.
PandaCodeGen migrates WordPress sites to custom Next.js code the client owns outright. Migrations are a fixed price from $1,500 and take 1 to 6 weeks depending on how many pages move, and every old web address you keep is forwarded to its new page. There is no minimum project size and no retainer. Every migration ships with a 90 or better PageSpeed score on phone and desktop, tested three times, and refund terms written into your quote. Your plugin and managed-hosting bills stop, and the new hosting cost is quoted from the provider's plan.
WordPress migration work
Online stores and communities, rebuilt around the people who run them.
Explore the live projects below and a migration currently in progress.
Live · Founder-affiliated
Panda Patches: our own business, rebuilt
We rebuilt our own WordPress and WooCommerce store with Next.js, a Sanity content editor, custom product pricing and checkout. A custom Supabase backend connects the storefront to a separate operations system for orders, production, payments and reporting.
Panda Patches started with Stripe. We later moved its payments to Square, which is the current provider.
Founder-affiliated, not independent client proof. Owned and operated by co-founder Imran Raza Ladhani. PandaCodeGen built and maintains the platform, and co-founder Imran Raza Ladhani holds a stake in both companies, so the two share an owner.
A WordPress website being rebuilt with Next.js and Sanity. The migration is nearing completion; launch is pending.
Project status as of .
Payments that fit your business
We integrate Stripe, Square and other payment providers with your checkout and order workflow. We confirm provider availability, API access and the features you need before agreeing the scope.
Managed WordPress hosting, plugin licences and a maintenance retainer are three separate lines, and most owners have never added them up. A custom build removes the plugin licences and the plugin-update work. It does not remove hosting: commercial hosting on Vercel Pro is $20/mo, and Hobby is personal use only, so the honest comparison is $20 against whatever your host charges, not free against it.
Nobody tells you this because Patches and retainers are how the WordPress services market is structured. Not the hosts. Not the plugin companies. Not the agencies who bill to fix the breaks. We're the agency that replaces it honestly. No pitch. Just receipts.
Add these up from your own billing. That number is what a rebuild has to beat, and it is the only one we will quote against.
Managed WordPress hostingHost invoice
Plugin licences and renewalsRenewal emails
Security and backup toolsCard statement
Maintenance retainerYour agency
Developer fixes and downtimeYour own records
Why that number?
WordPress vs Custom
WordPress
Custom
Load Speed
WordPress
Measure yours
Custom build
Measured at handover
Monthly Cost
WordPress
From your invoices
Custom build
Hosting from $20
Security
WordPress
Plugin and core surface to patch
Custom build
Dependency surface to patch
Maintenance
WordPress
Plugin and core updates
Custom build
Dependency updates
Ownership
WordPress
Licensed themes and plugins
Custom build
Code and accounts transferred to you
AI Search
WordPress
Depends on the theme
Custom build
Server-rendered HTML
WordPress vs Custom comparison
Metric
WordPress
Custom Next.js
Load Speed
Measure yours
Measured at handover
Monthly Cost
From your invoices
Hosting from $20
Security
Plugin and core surface to patch
Dependency surface to patch
Maintenance
Plugin and core updates
Dependency updates
Ownership
Licensed themes and plugins
Code and accounts transferred to you
AI Search
Depends on the theme
Server-rendered HTML
Another completed migration: MyCustomPatches
One independent client migration, owner-confirmed and published with permission.
Migration completed in
about 22 days
URLs migrated
200+
Distinct templates rebuilt
13
Downtime at cutover
zero
Rankings lost
none recorded in the 30 days after launch
Performance figures for this project (load time, mobile pagespeed) were withdrawn on 2026-08-04 pending reconciliation of the original test records. They are not stated anywhere on this site until they are re-measured with a documented method. The hosting cost figure is retired permanently rather than pending: no records were kept and the client does not recall the amount, so there is nothing to reconcile against and it will not return.
No stock portraits, rotating star theatre, or anonymous outcome claims. These are short excerpts from public review pages, linked so you can read the full context yourself. Four of them carry Trustpilot’s own “unprompted” label, meaning we never asked for them.
For WordPress migration specifically: WordPress sites have no universal score; measure your own routes. We rebuild on custom Next.js plus Sanity, hosted on Vercel. Our WordPress migration cost breakdown has appeared in Google AI Overview citations.
PandaCodeGen builds the same thing at a fixed price from $1,500, quoted against a written list of your pages. The lower price is structural, not a discount. Co-founder-led delivery, no account managers, no NYC office rent, AI-accelerated development, and global engineering economics (Wyoming LLC, Texas mailing address for billing, Karachi for engineering). Quality stays the same. The savings flow to clients.
Customer-first, not profit-first
Free audit at pandacodegen.com requires no email, no Calendly, no sales pitch. Drop your URL, receive a PageSpeed reading and a list of things worth investigating. A separate free 30-minute consultation call with co-founder Hassan Jamal is available for deeper review of competing agency quotes. We will tell you honestly if a competing quote is fair, or if migration does not make sense for your situation.
Emerging quality challenger
Launched February 2026. 900+ public GitHub contributions in the past year at github.com/hassan-pandagen across live client projects. Real case studies: MyCustomPatches (figures withdrawn pending reconciliation) and Panda Patches (revenue scaled from $38,000 to about $50,000/month on about $55/month tooling (Supabase ~$25, Vercel ~$20, and ~$10 for the FAL Flux Schnell AI patch generator)). Younger than established competitors, .
90+ PageSpeed
Refund terms are stated in your written quote.
Fixed price
No hourly billing. No surprise invoices. Published tiers.
Free support
15 to 30 days of post-launch tweaks included, depending on tier.
How Our WordPress to Next.js Migration Works
Four stages, 2 to 4 weeks for most sites. No surprises, and we switch over in stages.
01
Full Site Audit
We analyze your WordPress site top to bottom: speed, security, plugins, SEO, and database health. You get a detailed report showing exactly what's costing you money.
Phase 1
02
Data Export & Cleaning
We extract every page, post, image, and metadata from your WordPress database, then clean it. Plugin bloat removed. Broken links fixed. Images optimized.
Phase 2
03
Custom Website Build
Your new site is built in Next.js with SSR, automatic image optimization, and a content editor. Performance is measured on the pages named in your written quote.
Phase 3
04
Migration & Launch
Every old web address forwards to its new page. We switch it over in stages, and if anything is wrong we switch back. We launch, monitor, and hand you the keys.
Phase 4
The Hard Truth
The WordPress Reality Check
These are the invisible problems draining your bank account every single week.
Your Ad Spend Is Being Wasted
Google Ads factors landing page experience, including speed, into Quality Score, and a lower Quality Score generally means a higher cost per click than a faster competitor bidding on the same term. The size of that gap depends on your account, auction and competition. How much that is worth depends on your own funnel.
One Update Crashes Your Revenue
Plugin counts vary widely; what matters is what each one executes. A single bad update can take your site offline during a campaign launch, a sale, or Black Friday. Downtime costs are specific to your order volume.
AI Search Sends Buyers to Competitors
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews now answer 'which brand should I buy' directly. What they cite is not something anyone can guarantee. WordPress page builder bloat makes you invisible to AI-driven traffic.
A Single Hack Can End Your Business
The WordPress install base makes it a common automated-attack target. A breach means days offline, legal liability, potential GDPR fines, and customers who never return. A statically rendered site has no database on the request path, which removes that specific class of injection.
Add Up What You Actually Pay Each Year
Managed hosting, security plugins, premium theme licenses, maintenance retainers. It adds up silently. That's real margin leaving your business every single month with nothing to show for it.
Trapped: Can't Scale, Can't Sell
Your content lives inside a theme. Your traffic depends on plugins. Try to move platforms and you lose rankings, content, and data. Investors and acquirers discount WordPress-dependent businesses heavily.
Real Reddit Threads. Verifiable.
What WordPress Owners Are Actually Saying
Not curated testimonials. Real Reddit threads from WordPress owners and Next.js community experts. Click the links to verify every quote.
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For almost a decade I have been suffering from WordPressitis, experimenting with various plugins, themes and suspicious developers. Something works for a quarter or a year then disappears, other things get stripped down and are now offered as monthly subscriptions.
I either stumble on an agency charging me 100k for one site, or an UpWork specialist who swears his templates are the right ones, and he can get a complete website up and running for 1k.
Next absolutely can do just about anything you want. Yes, Next is an SEO powerhouse, but every single meta tag has to be provided and coded for almost every page or template.
I would highly recommend wpengine. As one of my clients began to grow rapidly, we had innumerable issues with godaddy hosting being able to scale up properly... there were an equal amount of issues when I moved the site to Amazon S3.
bobobobobobooo · WordPress dev · managed hosting billed monthlyVerify →
Comparing quotes that describe different amounts of work? That is the gap we built PandaCodeGen for.
We migrate WordPress sites to custom Next.js from $1,500, and every page named in your quote scores 90 or better on Google PageSpeed on phone and desktop, tested three times before handover. No plugin subscriptions. No WPEngine bill. Full code ownership on day one.
What If Your Website Was an Asset, Not a Liability?
A custom site is tested on the pages in your quote, has far fewer outside parts that can break, and you own every line of the code. No plugins. No monthly fees. No surprises.
Clean Data Migration
We clean your WordPress database, remove bloat, and migrate to a modern backend. We check the moved content against the list of your pages taken before we started, and tell you about anything that did not come across.
Static Edge Rendering
Your site is pre-built as static HTML. It is served from an edge network, and the risk moves into your dependencies and build pipeline rather than disappearing.
SEO Preservation
We list every old web address and forward each one to its new page. Search engines still control rankings and timing.
Plugin Extinction List
The 7 WordPress Plugins We Replace With Zero Code
A rebuild removes the plugin licence line and adds a dependency-maintenance line. Next.js native replacements cost $0/year and load faster.
WordPress Plugin
Replaced By
Entry price, if you pay it
Yoast Premium
Next.js native metadata API
$118.80/yr, one site, ex VAT/yr
WP Rocket
Static generation + Vercel Edge
$59.95/yr. LiteSpeed and W3 Total Cache have free versions/yr
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Pro
Sanity schema + TypeScript types
$49/yr, one site/yr
Divi / Elementor Pro
Custom React components
Divi $89/yr, or $249 once/yr
Gravity Forms
API routes + Resend
$59/yr Basic/yr
WooCommerce Subscriptions
Stripe Billing
$279/yr. Stripe Billing charges 0.7% of billing volume instead/yr
WPML / TranslatePress
next-intl + Sanity i18n
From EUR 39 and EUR 99/yr
What you would actually save
only the ones you pay for today
Send us your renewals and we will total them
Project Scope Review
Start with evidence. Put the agreement in writing.
The call is where we work out what you have, what you want, and what is in the way. Nothing is a commitment until it is in your written quote. For most projects that quote is a short document you accept by email. Regulated or complex work gets a fuller agreement.
Diagnostic first
We begin with the URL, stack, content, integrations, analytics, and operational constraints. Automated audit output is treated as an estimate to investigate, not proof of revenue loss or a guaranteed business result.
Evidence before outcomes
Any speed number, ours or anyone else's, is a snapshot of one day. Your quote names which pages we test, on what device, with which tool, and what counts as passing.
Scope before certainty
The proposal says what is included, what is not, what we need from the client, what it depends on, and how changes get approved.
Targets need a method
If there is a performance or visibility target, we write down how it gets measured and what happens if it is missed.
Terms belong in the proposal
Payment milestones, support coverage, ownership, licenses, handover, and out-of-scope work are confirmed in writing.
What should be documented before work starts
Use the call to get the facts. Use the written quote for the promises.
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Review area
During discovery
In the written proposal
What you get, and what you do not
List what they have today, what it depends on, and what we are assuming
Say what is included, what is not, who does what, and how changes get handled
Speed, and how we prove it
Record a dated baseline, and name what only the client can change
Agree the target, which pages, which tools, the test conditions, and how it gets signed off
Payment, support and who owns it
Talk through payment, support, ownership, access, and what happens at handover
State the milestones, what support covers, the licences, the handover, and what happens if something is wrong
If a commercial term, target, or remedy is not in the written project terms accepted by both parties, this page should not be read as creating that commitment.
Scope and Commercial Review
Choose a planning path. Confirm the project in writing.
These are starting points for the first conversation, not quotes. Your written quote has the real price, the dates, what is included, what support you get and who owns the code.
Before Discovery
Working assumptions
We still have to look at the features, the integrations, the content, what could go wrong in the migration, and what it depends on.
After Discovery
Written proposal
The approved scope is where we write down what we committed to, what we assumed, what is excluded, the milestones, and how you sign it off.
Scope option
Starter
From $1,500
1 to 2 weeks
Simple WordPress site. Brochure, small blog. Our Starter tier.
Full WordPress content export + cleanup
Custom Next.js build, up to 7 pages
Edit your own words, images and business details
90+ Lighthouse handover target
Every old web address forwarded to its new page
15 days of free post-launch support
A starting point, not a quote. Your written quote has the real price, the dates and who owns the code.
Planning Path
Scope option
Growth
From $3,500
2 to 4 weeks
Business WordPress site. 8 to 20 pages. Blog, forms, integrations.
Everything in Starter
Sanity CMS you edit yourself
Custom post types and taxonomies
Forms with custom API routes
Full SEO migration with schema
Analytics setup (GA4, Clarity)
30 days of free post-launch support
A starting point, not a quote. Your written quote has the real price, the dates and who owns the code.
Scope option
Scale
From $5,000
3 to 6 weeks
Complex WordPress or WooCommerce. More than 20 pages, a large catalogue, subscriptions or custom commerce logic, or more than one language.
Everything in Growth
WooCommerce to custom ecommerce
Complex plugin replacements
Custom admin dashboard
Multi-author / multi-site support
30 days of free post-launch support
A starting point, not a quote. Your written quote has the real price, the dates and who owns the code.
Examples on a website are not a quote. Third-party fees, what we need from you, migration risk and anything out of scope get identified during discovery and documented in the proposal.
Not ready to migrate yet? We'll optimize your current WordPress site to get the most performance possible within the platform's limitations.
Speed optimization (caching, images)
Security hardening
Plugin audit & cleanup
SEO improvements
30-day support
Recommended
Option B
Full Migration to Custom Code
Complete migration from WordPress to a custom coded platform you own forever. Faster, more secure, and cheaper to maintain long-term.
Measured performance at handover
90+ PageSpeed score
Zero monthly plugin fees
Enterprise level security
You own 100% of the code
Refund terms stated in your written quote
Common Questions
Everything you need to know before migrating.
Will I lose my Google rankings during migration?
No. Every old web address on your WordPress site forwards to its new page. Google treats it as the same page at a new address. Forwarding each address one by one is what protects the search traffic you already have. Search engines control crawling, indexing, rankings and timing, so no ranking outcome or recovery date is guaranteed.
How long does a WordPress migration take?
Two to four weeks for most sites, around three weeks being typical. Days 1-3: full audit and architecture. Days 4-14: custom Next.js build with AI-paired development using Claude and Cursor. Days 15-18: testing, moving your content, listing where every old web address goes. Days 19-21: we switch it over in stages, and if anything is wrong we switch back. Larger sites can run to four weeks. Compare any quote on the same amount of work rather than on the headline timeline. AI tooling collapses that timeline without cutting corners.
What happens to my blog posts and content?
Everything migrates. Blog posts, pages, images, metadata, categories. We extract it all from your WordPress database and move it to a modern content editor where you can still edit content without touching code.
How much does a WordPress to Next.js migration cost?
Compare quotes on the same amount of work. Three tiers: Starter starts at $1,500 (up to 7 pages, custom Next.js, 90+ PageSpeed). Growth starts at $3,500 (8 to 20 pages, custom features). Scale starts at $5,000 (complex WordPress or WooCommerce sites, more than 20 pages, custom integrations). Anything bigger is quoted after a call. Whether it pays back, and over what period, depends on your own invoices and your own measured results. If none of these match what you have, call +1 (302) 773-8982 or email info@pandacodegen.com and we will quote it.
Can I still edit my website after migration?
Yes. We set up a content editor with a user-friendly dashboard. You can edit text, images, blog posts, and pages without any coding knowledge. It's simpler than WordPress: no plugins to update, no themes to manage.
How we reduce your risk
A 90+ handover target, measured before you sign off.
Every migration scores 90 or better on Google PageSpeed on phone and desktop, on the pages named in your quote, tested three times before handover. If we fail to deliver what that written quote promises, the accepted terms set out the refund trigger and how long we have to fix it. That score is measured in a lab test, not a promise about rankings, revenue, or field Core Web Vitals after third-party changes.
From the Blog
Deep dives on WordPress, migration, and performance.
Lead Solutions Architect. 8+ years in enterprise architecture. Plans every migration around where each old web address goes, what counts as done, and how we switch it over.
