Post-conversion center

After Conversion

Your theme is downloaded. These four sections take you from a ZIP file to a live, indexed WordPress site without losing rankings.

Install your WordPress theme

Install the WordPress theme

In WordPress go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme, choose your downloaded ZIP and activate it.

Install the recommended plugins

Contact Form 7 or WPForms for forms, and an SEO plugin. The theme detects them automatically.

Configure menus

Appearance → Menus. Your original navigation is registered as a menu location; assign it and save.

Configure the homepage

Settings → Reading → A static page, then pick the page generated from your original index.

Configure permalinks

Settings → Permalinks → Post name. This also flushes rewrite rules so every converted page resolves.

Configure contact forms

Open each converted form, map the fields to your form plugin and set the recipient address.

Configure caching

Enable a caching plugin last, after you have verified every page renders correctly.

Configure security

Set strong admin credentials, enable auto-updates and add a firewall plugin before going public.

SEO migration center

Yoast SEO

Import the titles and descriptions extracted during conversion, then set a site-wide title template.

Rank Math

Use the setup wizard, disable its automatic redirect capture during migration, then re-enable it.

XML sitemap

Let your SEO plugin generate the sitemap and submit it in Google Search Console.

Robots.txt

Confirm the staging noindex flag is off: Settings → Reading → uncheck search engine discouragement.

Canonical URLs

Canonical tags carry over per page. Verify them after changing the domain or the permalink structure.

Redirects

Map every old URL to its new WordPress path before switching DNS.

Google Search Console

Add the WordPress site, verify ownership and submit the new sitemap the same day you launch.

Google Analytics

Re-add the measurement tag; tracking scripts from the original site are not carried over automatically.

Schema

Re-check structured data in the Rich Results Test; your SEO plugin adds the site-level schema.

301 redirect center

Lovable domain

Point the custom domain at WordPress, then add 301 rules for any path that changed.

Framer domain

Update the DNS record to your WordPress host and redirect old Framer slugs to the new pages.

Webflow domain

Remove the Webflow DNS records, add the WordPress host records and redirect /pages/* paths.

Replit domain

Replit URLs cannot issue redirects; publish a link page or change DNS if you used a custom domain.

GitHub Pages

Keep the repository and replace index.html with a meta refresh plus canonical to the WordPress URL.

Netlify

Add a _redirects rule: /* https://yourdomain.com/:splat 301!

Vercel

Add a redirects entry in vercel.json with permanent: true for each old path.

Launch checklist

  • Every page opens without a 404
  • Navigation and footer links resolve to WordPress pages
  • Images and fonts load from the theme, not the old host
  • Forms deliver to the right inbox
  • Mobile layout matches the original
  • SEO titles, descriptions and canonicals are in place
  • Sitemap submitted and search engine discouragement disabled
  • 301 redirects live for every changed URL
  • Backups and security plugin active

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