How it works

A gated pipeline, not a leap of faith

Your clients' sites are your reputation. Every migration passes automated parity and SEO gates before DNS moves — and the old site stays warm until you sign off.

From audit to launch

1

Audit & fixed quote

We map and analyze the live site — pages, forms, redirects, integrations, rankings — and give you a fixed per-site quote. No day rates, no open-ended scope.

2

Faithful static rebuild

Every page is rebuilt as pre-rendered static HTML. Same design, same content, same URLs. Your client's brand is untouched — it just gets fast.

3

Visual parity gate

Automated screenshot comparison between the original and the migration at mobile, tablet and desktop viewports. Differences beyond threshold block the launch.

4

SEO preservation gate

A full 301 redirect map, meta and Open Graph carryover, regenerated sitemap and structured data — then verified with an automated checker. Rankings stay put.

5

Forms & functionality

Contact and enquiry forms are rebuilt on a hardened, spam-protected standard component. Submissions route wherever they route today.

6

Launch with a rollback plan

DNS cutover is scheduled with you, and the old site stays warm until sign-off. If anything looks wrong, we flip back in minutes.

Definition of done

A launch doesn't count unless…

95+

Lighthousescore on every page

0

Broken links, verified automatically

3

Viewports pass visual parity checks

100%

Legacy URLs covered by 301 redirects

After launch

Maintenance becomes an email

Once a site is live, it moves onto a flat monthly retainer. Content changes arrive by email and go live the same business day. Monitoring, security headers and fixes are included — scoped by a narrow, written SLA so "maintenance" never quietly becomes free development work for either of us.

New features and redesigns are quoted separately as fixed-price work, so the retainer stays predictable on both sides.

Included in every retainer

  • Same-business-day content changes by email
  • Uptime monitoring and incident response
  • Framework and dependency updates
  • Form handling and spam filtering
  • Full version history — every change reversible
  • Monthly summary you can forward to your client

The questions agencies actually ask

How do our clients make content changes?

Exactly how they do now: they email. You forward it (or they email a dedicated address under your domain) and the change is live the same business day. Clients who want to self-serve get a Git-based CMS with a friendly editing screen — the site stays fully static either way.

What happens to SEO rankings?

Nothing — that's the point of the SEO gate. Every legacy URL gets a 301, all meta and structured data carries over, and we verify with a checker before launch. Static sites then tend to gain ground because Core Web Vitals improve dramatically.

What if something breaks after launch?

Fixes are covered by the retainer, not billed on top. Static sites also have a far smaller failure surface — there's no database to corrupt and no plugin chain to conflict. Uptime monitoring is included on every site.

Do you talk to our clients?

By default all communication runs through you. Mutual non-solicitation is in the contract.

Why move client sites away from WordPress?

WordPress renders every page by running PHP and a database on each request, then leans on plugins and caching to stay fast. Our architecture pre-renders each page to static HTML once. No server, no database and no plugin surface..

How much do agencies save on hosting?

Managed WordPress hosting typically runs about £35 per site per month. With Weston-Digital, the per-site hosting line drops close to zero, with maintenance included — while you keep re-billing your client at their existing rate.

See the pipeline run on a real site

Pick a client site and we'll audit the homepage — you'll get the before/after numbers on a preview domain, whether you decide to work with us or not.

Audit Request