WHY MIGRATE

Your WordPress site is a liability wearing a marketing budget.

WordPress made sense when your site was simple and your team was small. Now it's dozens of plugins deep, patched by whoever had time last quarter, and a line item your last agency never fully explained. Here's what actually changes when you move off it — this is the secondary line of work we do, alongside our Security & GRC platforms.

migration-audit.log
✕ 12 plugins with known CVEs
✕ admin surface exposed on 3 subpaths
✕ LCP 4.8s on mobile
✓ rebuilt: Next.js 14 / Node / Postgres
✓ admin surface: none (headless)
✓ LCP 0.7s on mobile

WordPress vs. Trenchant Labs

The comparison your board should have seen before the last renewal.

WORDPRESS AGENCY
TRENCHANT LABS
Annual cost
$80K–$300K
Competitive, fixed scope
Security posture
47+ plugin CVEs on average
Threat-modeled, hardened at build
Performance
Core Web Vitals fail on mobile
Sub-second, mobile-first
Codebase ownership
Agency-held, vendor-locked
100% yours, on day one
AI-readiness
Bolted-on plugin, if any
Native, governed, included in every build

How the migration actually works.

Three steps, in order — no surprises mid-project.

01

Audit everything first

Full plugin and dependency audit before a line of code moves — every known CVE identified and scoped, not discovered mid-project.

02

Zero-downtime cutover

301 mapping and SEO preservation built into the migration plan, so your search rankings survive the move intact.

03

A CMS your team can still use

A self-serve content layer for marketing, without the plugin sprawl and admin-surface exposure that came with it.

Ready to see what your site costs to run securely?

Get a free migration assessment