Post-migration QA and testing

With your migration to WordPress complete, it’s time to dive into post-migration QA and testing. This step is crucial to make sure that everything works seamlessly on your new WordPress stack. 

Content validation

Content validation ensures that all of your Sitecore content has been accurately and completely transferred to your new WordPress setup. There are generally three things under content validation:

• Content completeness. This is verifying that all relevant pages, posts, and media assets have been successfully migrated from Sitecore to WordPress. 
• Content accuracy. This is ensuring that all the migrated pages, posts, and media show up properly on the frontend and also work as intended.
• Content hierarchy and structure. This is verifying the successful migration of all categories, tags, and taxonomies so that all the content is organized well, accessible, and easily navigable for both users and search engines.

Design validation

Design validation is a critical step in the Sitecore to WordPress migration process, ensuring that the visual and functional aspects of your site remain intact and user-friendly. Here are a few ways to validate your new WordPress design:

• Check for design consistency with the original Sitecore instance
• Test for mobile friendliness
• Validate UX (especially for dynamic website elements like forms)

Media library validation

Validating your media library ensures that your multimedia content loads properly and that your content experiences work seamlessly post migration. Here’s how to go about it: 

• Ensure all images, videos, and multimedia assets have been migrated.
• Verify that your media files are loading properly and are optimized for performance.
• Check that file attachments (PDFs, docs, etc.) are accessible and working correctly.

Functional testing

This is ensuring that everything on your site functions as intended. Functional testing includes (but isn’t limited to):

• Ensure that functionalities and features are working as intended
• Testing workflows
• Verifying integrations

Performance testing

Performance testing is about confirming that your new WordPress stack meets or exceeds the performance benchmarks set by your original Sitecore site. This can be many things, including:

• Checking for page loading speeds
• Caching provisions
• General website optimization

Security testing

This one’s all about securing your WordPress stack! You’re looking at the following things and more here:

• Verify security best practices are implemented correctly
  • (Think enforcing strong passwords, restricting login attempts, 2FA, and more.)
• Security certificates
  • Confirm that the right security certificates are installed.
• User roles and permissions
  • Ensure WordPress user roles are correctly mapped from Sitecore with the right permissions for administrators, editors, and contributors, etc.

SEO validation

SEO validation ensures that your new WordPress site will retain or improve its search engine visibility post migrating from Sitecore. This involves checking that key elements like metadata, URL structures, and schema markup have been correctly transferred. So:

• Ensure all SEO metadata (title tags, meta descriptions, alt tags) have been migrated.
• Validate URL structures/Redirects.
• Ensure that any schema markup from Sitecore is properly implemented in WordPress.

Analytics and tracking validation

Analytics and tracking validation ensures that your new WordPress site continues to capture and report all the essential data post-migration from Sitecore. Validating these involves:

• Verifying that Google Analytics (or other tracking tools) are properly set up and are tracking the intended data.
• Checking that any goals or conversions set up in Sitecore are properly carried over to WordPress.
• Validating event tracking, ensuring that events like form submissions, clicks, and scroll depth, among others, are captured accurately.