Batch'd
100% Data accuracy
A freshly baked redesign for Batch’d’s new Shopify storefront
Industries: Food & Beverage
MigrationStore BuildUI/UX DesignCustom Theme Development
WordPress to Shopify Migration
Top-rated WordPress to Shopify migration agency that eliminates plugin conflicts, hosting management, and security vulnerabilities.
craftberry provides WordPress to Shopify migration services including full product transfers, customer account preservation, order history migration, and URL redirects for SEO. We rebuild WooCommerce functionality natively in Shopify or replace it with high-performance apps that scale reliably.
From ERP integrations to conversion-focused redesigns, we handle every detail when you migrate from WordPress to Shopify. Certified Shopify Plus partner with 300+ successful migrations and 9+ years helping brands replatform and grow.
- 300+ Online Stores Successfully Migrated to Shopify
- Official Shopify Plus Partner
- In-house Team of 35+ Senior Shopify Experts
- 9+ Years of Experience Helping Brands Scale with Shopify
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Batch'd
100% Data accuracy
A freshly baked redesign for Batch’d’s new Shopify storefront
Industries: Food & Beverage
MigrationStore BuildUI/UX DesignCustom Theme Development
Shelly
500K+ customers moved to Shopify Plus for one of Europe’s standout smart-home unicorns
Transforming an IoT unicorn with a seamless migration from Shopware to Shopify Plus
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Migration to Shopify and scalable rebuild for a globally recognised smart automotive brand
Industries: Tech & Electronics
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Project 1 of 3: Batch'd
Our WordPress to Shopify migration at a glance
Who we work with
WordPress and WooCommerce sites moving to Shopify and Shopify Plus, especially content-led brands whose blog traffic and rankings carry real revenue.
What we migrate
Products, customers, order history, and the entire content layer: posts, pages, media, categories, Yoast or RankMath metadata, and every permalink mapped to its new URL.
How we migrate
A full content inventory, staged imports using Matrixify or custom API tooling, a plugin-by-plugin replacement map, and a side-by-side build next to your live site.
How we protect SEO
A full pre-migration crawl, a one-hop 301 for every permalink, metadata carried field by field, internal links rewritten, and daily Search Console monitoring after launch.
What results we target
Zero-downtime cutover and preserved rankings. Recent work: Batch'd migrated from WordPress with 100% data accuracy and zero downtime, and Color Factory rebuilt from WordPress on Shopify.
Technology we use
Matrixify and custom API tooling, Online Store 2.0 themes, Shopify Forms, and GA4 with Google Search Console for measurement.
The Next Step in Growth
WordPress can take you far, but scaling on the Shopify platform means faster performance, built-in automation, and freedom from technical maintenance. It’s the next stage for brands ready to grow without limits.
Tired of Managing WordPress Maintenance? Shopify Handles It for You.
Running a WordPress website means constantly managing hosting, updates, backups, and security patches - every plugin and theme adds another layer to maintain.
Miss one update or configuration, and performance, data, or checkout stability can quickly suffer.
Shopify takes care of it all. It’s fully hosted platform, automatically updated, and protected by enterprise-grade PCI and SSL compliance, ensuring data security and safe transactions.
The result is a secure, high-performing storefront that runs smoothly while your team focuses on growth, not maintenance.
Leave Security Headaches Behind. Migrate to ShopifyUnlock Deeper Insights with Shopify’s Built-In Analytics
WordPress relies on external plugins for reporting - often leading to incomplete or inconsistent data across your store.
Shopify solves that with powerful, built-in analytics available directly inside the Shopify admin and Shopify dashboard, giving you a unified view of performance across products, traffic, and sales.
Every report is designed for precision and data accuracy, maintaining full data integrity across orders, customers, and conversions.
That means your online business can make confident, data-driven decisions - without depending on third-party tools or integrations.
Start Converting More with ShopifyReady to Build on a Platform That Scales With You?
Growth happens faster when your tech supports it, not slows it down, and Shopify replaces the complexity with simplicity, automation, and reliability, giving your team more time to focus on scaling.
Why Growing Brands Move from WordPress to Shopify
WordPress can get you started - but scaling an online store on it often means juggling plugins, hosting providers, and constant updates.
As your business grows, maintenance demands rise, performance slows, and every new feature requires more time and technical involvement.
Shopify changes that dynamic. It’s a fully managed platform built to scale seamlessly - with hosting, security, payments, and analytics all included from day one.
Every tool, from inventory control to automated workflows, works together effortlessly, helping teams move faster without relying on third-party fixes.
For expanding brands, this shift isn’t just about migrating data. It’s about gaining a faster, more stable foundation that supports long-term growth with less friction.
Migrate from WordPress to Shopify with a Certified Shopify Plus Partner
Moving from WordPress to Shopify isn’t just a copy-paste job - it’s a full-scale eCommerce migration that touches every part of your business: product catalogs, customer accounts, order history, media files, SEO structure, and URLs.
A poorly managed migration can lead to missing data, broken links, or performance issues that directly impact sales.
That’s why leading brands partner with craftberry. As a certified Shopify Plus Partner, our in-house team oversees every step - from exporting and refining WordPress data to rebuilding your store’s architecture for speed, clarity, and conversion.
We handle the process end-to-end, ensuring your new Shopify store goes live flawlessly - with every product, redirect, and integration transferred safely, and zero downtime along the way.
300+ Stores Successfully Migrated to Shopify
In the last decade, we’ve guided over 300 ecommerce businesses - from ambitious startups to global retailers - through smooth, secure migrations to Shopify.
Our refined migration process blends data precision, store performance, and conversion-focused design, ensuring every move strengthens your business, not disrupts it.
From product data and customer information to SEO settings and redirects, every detail is carefully handled to deliver a seamless transition and an uninterrupted shopping experience.
Brands like Shelly, The Fashion Project, and Pepper have already trusted craftberry to migrate their stores from WordPress, WooCommerce and other platforms to Shopify - unlocking faster storefronts, simplified management, and measurable revenue growth.
WordPress vs Shopify
The comparison depends on what your site is for. For publishing, WordPress is the stronger tool. For running a store, Shopify removes most of the work described above. This table is the version we walk clients through when they ask about Shopify vs WordPress for ecommerce.
Our Shopify and Shopify Plus migration agency services
Experience a smooth transition to the leading e-commerce platform with our Shopify and Shopify Plus migration services.
What we migrate, and how
Content migration is the core of a WordPress move, and it is where DIY migrations quietly lose data: metadata dropped, image URLs left pointing at a dead server, shortcodes rendering as raw brackets. We map every entity before anything moves. This is the standard map for a WordPress source, including the WooCommerce rows where they apply.
Everything in this table is verified after the dry run: counts per entity, spot checks per content type, and a diff against the source export.
Blog posts
Exported via WXR or the REST API, transformed, loaded through the Admin API. Shortcodes are rendered to final HTML or stripped; page-builder markup is converted to clean HTML
Pages
Same pipeline. Key landing pages are rebuilt as themed templates rather than pasted HTML where the design calls for it
Categories and tags
The mapping is a documented decision per term, not a default. Category and tag archive URLs go into the redirect map
Yoast / RankMath metadata
Exported alongside each post and written via the API, so your search snippets do not reset. Focus keywords and plugin scores have no Shopify equivalent; canonical and noindex rules are re-implemented deliberately
Media
Files are re-uploaded, alt text carried over, and every image URL inside body content is rewritten to the new CDN path
Comments
Imported through the Admin API comment resource; spam and unapproved comments are filtered before import
Users and authors
Password hashes cannot move between platforms, so migrated customers get account activation emails. We time that send with your team
Products (if WooCommerce)
Variable products map to Shopify's option and variant model, within its limit of 3 options and 100 variants per product; catalogs that exceed it are restructured with metafields or a variant app, agreed before migration
Orders and coupons (if WooCommerce)
Order history imports through the API with numbers preserved where the numbering scheme allows; no customer is charged by an import
Forms
Forms are rebuilt, not migrated; past entries are exported and archived for your records
Existing redirects
Your current redirect rules are exported and merged into the master redirect map so old chains keep resolving
Your blog and permalinks
A WordPress migration is a content migration first: posts, pages, media and years of accumulated SEO metadata have to arrive intact.
Full content inventory
Every post, page, category and media file is catalogued before anything moves, so nothing is discovered missing after launch.
Permalinks mapped, not guessed
WordPress freeform permalinks map one-to-one onto Shopify's fixed /products/, /pages/ and /blogs/ paths, with a bulk-loaded redirect for every indexed URL.
Yoast and RankMath carry over
Titles and meta descriptions export per URL and are written into the matching Shopify resources, so years of optimization move with the content.
Internal links rewritten
Cross-links inside your content are rewritten to the new URL structure, so link equity keeps flowing inside the site.
What replaces your WordPress plugins
We inventory every active plugin during discovery and give each one a disposition: replaced by a Shopify feature, replaced by an app, rebuilt in the theme, or retired.
How we preserve SEO and rankings
Rankings are attached to URLs, content and links, and a migration touches all three. The redirect map is a first-class deliverable on every project:
Every indexed WordPress URL is
Every indexed WordPress URL is crawled and exported before the build starts.
Each URL gets a mapped
Each URL gets a mapped one-hop 301 to its exact Shopify counterpart, no chains.
Titles, meta descriptions and structured
Titles, meta descriptions and structured data carry over field by field.
We benchmark rankings before launch
We benchmark rankings before launch and monitor Search Console daily after, so any movement is caught within days.
How much does a WordPress to Shopify migration cost?
It depends on three drivers, and we can put a number on your project after a short assessment. The bands below are our proposed guide rails. What moves a WordPress project up the range: content volume and messiness (page-builder markup, heavy shortcode use), WooCommerce data depth (order history size, subscriptions), and how much of the design is rebuilt versus redesigned. What keeps it down: a clean database, a finite plugin list, and decisions made early in the mapping spec. Every quote we give is fixed after discovery, and the assessment that produces it is free.
Typical range
$15K to $30K
USD
≈ €12K to €24K EUR£11K to £22K GBP
Content-focused WordPress site or clean WooCommerce catalog
Typical range
$30K to $70K
USD
≈ €24K to €56K EUR£22K to £51K GBP
Mid-market: large content library or full WooCommerce store, custom theme, integrations
Typical range
$70K to $150K+
USD
≈ €56K to €120K+ EUR£51K to £110K+ GBP
Complex or Shopify Plus: high-volume catalogs, B2B, subscriptions, ERP, multi-market
Get your WordPress migration plan
Send us your URL and we will come back with a free migration assessment: a content and data audit, a risk map for your permalinks and rankings, a timeline, and a fixed quote. No obligation, and you keep the assessment either way.
What our clients say
“We've been working with Craftberry since 2025, and they have become a trusted partner for our e-commerce business. We successfully migrated our online store from WordPress to Shopify. The Craftberry team demonstrated excellent technical expertise, professionalism, and a strong understanding of e-commerce. The migration was smooth, well-organized, and handled with great attention to detail.”
“Craftberry designed and developed our Shopify website, and we couldn't be happier with the results. They built a site that feels playful with animations yet clean and user-friendly. They also paid close attention to mobile optimisation and key SEO functions. We're really pleased with the final product and have seen noticeable improvements in both results and conversions since launch.”
“The Craftberry team was very responsive and understood our brand well after the discovery phase.”
“Craft Berry is a team I can rely on.”
“Craftberry has been the nomz Shopify development partner of choice for the last 8 years, from the time it started to its current phase of growth. Really good at UI/UX, CRO, and writing clean code for our websites. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a strong development partner that gets it.”
“They were able to keep us informed and not wondering what was going on.”
WordPress to Shopify migration FAQ
We help brands grow through connected strategy, technology, creative, and marketing.
Request a free discoveryYes, and you have two options. The standard path is migrating every post into a Shopify blog with metadata and images intact and redirecting the old permalinks, which keeps one domain and one platform. The alternative is keeping WordPress alive on a subdomain purely for content while Shopify runs the store. We migrate the blog in most projects; the hybrid only earns its overhead when the editorial operation is large enough to need WordPress's CMS features daily.
Yoast stores your SEO titles and meta descriptions as post metadata in the WordPress database. We export those fields with each post and page and write them into Shopify's SEO title and description fields through the API, so your search snippets carry over instead of resetting to defaults. Focus keywords and Yoast's content scores have no Shopify equivalent and do not transfer. Canonical and noindex settings are re-implemented on the Shopify side as deliberate decisions. Sites running RankMath get the identical treatment; only the database field names differ.
No. WordPress themes are PHP templates and Shopify runs Liquid, so theme code cannot transfer between the platforms. What we do instead is rebuild: either a faithful reconstruction of your current design as a Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme, or a redesign if the move is the right moment for one, which is the path Batch'd took. Your content, images, and brand assets all move; the template code is the one thing that is genuinely rebuilt rather than migrated.
We build a one-to-one redirect map before launch. Every indexed URL (gathered from your sitemap, Search Console, analytics, and backlink data) is mapped to its Shopify equivalent, merged with your existing redirect rules, and loaded into Shopify's native redirect system, which serves permanent 301 redirects. Category, tag, and date archives map to their closest real equivalent, never bulk-pointed at the homepage. After launch we re-crawl the entire old URL list and fix any redirect that does not resolve cleanly.
Yes. The usual setup is Shopify on your primary domain with WordPress on a subdomain such as blog.yourbrand.com. It makes sense when you run a genuine editorial operation: many authors, custom post types, workflows your team uses daily. The costs are real, though: two systems to maintain and secure, analytics stitched across properties, and link equity split between domain and subdomain. For a typical store blog, consolidating into Shopify is the better trade, and we will show you which side your site falls on during the assessment.
A content-focused WordPress site with a rebuild of the existing design typically runs 4 to 8 weeks from kickoff to launch. Add WooCommerce data, a custom theme design, or integrations, and the range extends to roughly 8 to 14 weeks. For reference, we delivered the FitSpo project in 8 weeks. The assessment gives you a dated plan for your specific site, and because the build happens on a staging store, your live site keeps trading for the entire duration.
Our proposed bands: $15,000 to $30,000 for a straightforward site with clean data, $30,000 to $70,000 for mid-market scope with integrations and a custom theme, and $70,000 to $150,000 and up for complex or Shopify Plus projects. The drivers that place a WordPress project in a band are content volume, WooCommerce data depth, and theme scope. The free assessment ends with a fixed quote, so you are never estimating from a range.
Yes. Products and variable products map to Shopify's product and variant model, customers become Shopify customer records (they receive activation emails, since password hashes cannot move between platforms), order history imports as archived records, and coupons become discount codes. Catalogs that exceed Shopify's limit of 3 options and 100 variants per product get a restructuring plan agreed before migration. If the store side is the bigger half of your project, our WooCommerce to Shopify migration page covers that scope in depth.
Rankings are attached to URLs, content, and links, and a migration touches all three. The risk is concentrated in execution failures: URLs that die without redirects, metadata that resets, content that does not fully move. Our process closes each of those: a complete 301 map loaded at launch, metadata carried per page, and a pre-launch versus post-launch crawl comparison to prove parity.
No. The new store is built and populated on a password-protected Shopify environment while your WordPress site keeps running and selling. Launch is a DNS change: the domain starts pointing at Shopify, redirects activate at the same moment, and checkout works from the first request. Instead of downtime, we schedule a short content freeze (or a delta migration pass) near launch so that posts and orders created during the build are not left behind.
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