Kentico to WordPress migration service
Migrate from Kentico to WordPress with ease: Our expert migration services ensure your Kentico site’s design, features, and integrations are seamlessly reimagined on WordPress. Keep your SEO intact while gaining a more intuitive interface, robust customization, and a cost-effective, license-free platform.
Here’s why our clients choose to
migrate from Kentico to WordPress
With Kentico, you may have some limitations, but with WordPress, you can unlock new possibilities for your website
| Criteria | Kentico | WordPress |
| Total cost of ownership | Using Kentico involves high upfront and yearly licensing fees and additional costs for upgrades, and training. Its complex user interface often requires skilled developer support for customizations—further increasing expenses. | WordPress offers a better TCO than Kentico, with no upfront or annual licensing fees and minimal training costs. Its flexibility, and abundance of free resources, and large skilled enterprise-grade developer community helps businesses manage their websites efficiently. |
| Backward compatibility | Kentico does not support older versions, requiring users to refactor their sites for compatibility. Currently, only Kentico Xperience 13 editing components are backward compatible. | WordPress is compatible with older versions and doesn’t require refactoring, it supports versions that are nearly 10 years old. |
| Upgrades | Upgrading Kentico is costly and resource-intensive, requiring developer support to manually recompile the setup for code changes, leading to potential downtime. Here, upgrade = re-platforming. Kentico’s deployment cycle is longer due to complex configuration, environment setup, and time-consuming changes. | WordPress has an automated update system, users can also choose to perform manual updates with just a few clicks. Even when extensive customizations are needed, WordPress offers a quicker turnaround time for deployments. There are no additional costs for updates and upgrades, making WordPress a cost-effective solution for your website. |
| Learning curve | Kentico presents a steeper learning curve for users, due to its complex architecture and limited backward compatibility. It is ideal for only those who already have experience with Kentico’s content management, marketing automation, eCommerce features, etc. | Learning WordPress takes time, especially for advanced features like theme customization and plugin development. However, its intuitive architecture, comprehensive documentation, and strong developer support make the learning process streamlined. |
| Support | Kentico has a smaller developer community, which can slow down issue resolution and limit support. Its documentation and resources are most useful for teams with prior Kentico experience; those without experience, may find it challenging to fully utilize the platform’s features. | WordPress has a large, active developer community that quickly addresses priority issues. With extensive tutorials and detailed documentation, developers can easily resolve complex problems and deepen their understanding of the platform. |
Efficient processes, bootstraps, and automations power our surprisingly cost-effective migrations.
Top talent upskilled with comprehensive in-house training, ensuring adherence to standard practices and high-quality delivery.
Built-in quality practices and proven processes ensure your SEO and data are preserved.
Contributions to WordPress core for the last 32 consecutive releases. And counting.
Why rtCamp?
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Our approach
Here’s how we handle Kentico to WordPress migrations at rtCamp
Mapping a WordPress stack equivalent of your Kentico setup
We start off by evaluating how your entire Kentico site’s—features, integrations, content, and everything else—can be migrated to WordPress.
Migrating your Kentico frontend to WordPress
If you want to retain your existing Kentico design on WordPress, we’ll recreate it through a custom WordPress development. Or, you are free to choose a redesign.
Migrating your Kentico backend to WordPress
At this stage, we recreate your Kentico site’s capabilities on WordPress by transferring over your existing features, functionalities, and third-party integrations to it.
Migrating your Kentico content to WordPress
This step will cover your Kentico content migration. Using a mix of manual and automated methods, we’ll transfer every piece of content from your Kentico site to WordPress.
Migrating your Kentico SEO equity to WordPress
We carefully migrate all your key SEO components, including all your SEO metadata, URL structures, schema markups, and more, to WordPress ensuring that you don’t lose your SEO equity.
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rtCamp has helped our organization in so many ways! Their incredible wealth of knowledge and experience around the WordPress platform has brought peace-of-mind to our teams and leadership. Not only have they built us sustainable enterprise-class WordPress sites, but they have also helped streamline our go-to-market process with the solutions they have helped us architect.
Randall Benson
Senior Manager, Marketing Operations
rtCamp delivered our project on time and within budget. They migrated all existing content from our legacy platform to WordPress seamlessly. This empowered our team to manage the CMS efficiently, freeing up our core engineers for larger initiatives. The cost savings from switching to WordPress are significant. rtCamp provided exceptional value across all aspects. They were incredibly responsive to our needs throughout the entire process.
Chuck Konfrst
Director User Experience
rtCamp’s remarkable Drupal to WordPress migration, completed in just a few weeks, was a game-changer for FleetNet America. Their expertise transformed our online presence, elevating user experience and functionality. This initiative had a noteworthy business impact, with a 2x increase in performance. WordPress, known for its versatility, proved to be an excellent choice for our Enterprise B2B needs.
Samantha Blum
Digital Marketing Manager
Turnaround time for our article publication has been significantly reduced, with the added benefit of my team being able to together content much quicker and more consistently, meaning my job as editor is made easier. Overall, it’s been a much more productive experience, on top of our articles looking much better.
Mikey Bautista
Director of Everyday Carry Operations at The Ridge
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Check out our resources
Kentico vs WordPress
Explore how Kentico stacks up against WordPress in total cost of ownership, agile content delivery, scalability, and more in our detailed comparison guide.
Kentico to WordPress migration- VinSolutions case study
Read the complete story here, on how we helped our client migrate successfully from Kentico to WordPress.
Kentico to WordPress CMS migration FAQs
Get answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about migrating from Kentico to WordPress!
With over 15 years in the business, we have completed more than 300 CMS migration projects successfully. As one of the first agencies to achieve WordPress VIP Gold Partner status, we bring unparalleled expertise. Having contributed to the last 32 WordPress releases, we truly know the platform inside and out—it’s what we live and breathe. Moreover, we offer staff augmentation and training services to help you maximize the full potential of WordPress’s powerful features.
Yes, we can carry out a test migration on a staging environment. This allows you to review how your content will appear and function in WordPress before making the final migration to the live site. It ensures everything is thoroughly tested and ready for a smooth transition.
While there may be some changes in appearance, the page structure and content hierarchy can be seamlessly migrated, preserving their functionality.
We’ll recreate your existing custom functionalities on WordPress through custom coding or by integrating suitable plugins and extending its capabilities. The idea is to ensure that you don’t lose any existing important capabilities as you move to WordPress.
The timeline depends on various factors, the size of your website and the complexity of features. Generally, migrations can take anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months. After our initial assessment, we will be able to provide a more accurate timeline. Talk to our WordPress consultant to know more.
Ideally, the migration process will go smoothly with minimal downtime. However, this can’t always be guaranteed. As a worst-case scenario, you can expect between 30 minutes to four hours of downtime during the website migration. To minimize disruption, we perform the migration during low-traffic hours, based on insights from your existing analytics
Migrating from Kentico to WordPress can be seamless with careful planning. While SEO may experience a temporary dip, preserving your URL structure and implementing 301 redirects can mitigate the impact. With Google Search Console, Yoast SEO, and WordPress’s robust optimization tools, you can enhance rankings post-migration and prevent significant drops.
