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After Migrating a Large WordPress + Elementor Site to Astro, What Problems Did You Run Into Later?
I’ve just spent the last 2 weeks migrating my travel tour website from WordPress + Elementor to Astro.
The site has:
- Nearly 1000 blog posts
- 200+ custom Elementor components/widgets
- Around 5 years of accumulated structure/content
So far, I’ve finished:
- Most of the frontend migration
- Part of the backend/system architecture
Honestly, the performance difference already feels huge.
Now I’m trying to avoid making mistakes in the next phase, especially because this is a real business website focused heavily on SEO and content.
Besides the UI/frontend part (which is mostly done), what should I pay extra attention to during and after migration?
Things already on my radar:
- SEO preservation & redirects
- Core Web Vitals
- Security
- Structured data/schema
- Image optimization/CDN
- Caching strategy
But I’d really love to hear practical lessons from people who already migrated large WordPress sites to Astro (or other static/hybrid frameworks).
Especially interested in:
- Unexpected SEO issues
- Traffic drops/recovery timelines
- Handling old media URLs
- Search/indexing problems
- CMS/editor workflow after leaving WordPress
- Things you wish you knew earlier
Would appreciate any advice or war stories 🙏
u/Terrible-Choice-2875 — 6 days ago