Migrating a WordPress website to KreateWebsites

Migrating a WordPress website to KREATE-WEBSITES involves several steps:

Preparation:

1. Evaluate Your Site: Before diving in, assess your WordPress site's complexity. If it's a simple website with blog posts and pages, migration is easier. Complex sites with custom plugins or functionalities might require extra effort or professional help.
2. Choose a KreateWebsites Plan: KreateWebsites offers various plans with different features. Consider your website's needs when selecting a plan.

Building on KreateWebsites:

3. Set Up Your KreateWebsites Account: Create a KreateWebsites account and choose a template that aligns with your website's style and purpose. Remember, KreateWebsites templates are suitable for publishing content at scale and build light weight pages than variety of functionality, Once you set up, you can publish lot more.

Migration Process:

4. Export Your WordPress Content: You'll need to export your content from WordPress. This includes blog posts, pages, and images. The process involves creating an XML file using a plugin or the WordPress export tool.
5. Import Content into KreateWebsites: KreateWebsites offers a tool to import content from WordPress. You can upload this XML and content into google drive or bucket and KreateWebsites support team will import this for you. Log in to your KreateWebsites dashboard, navigate to the import section, and choose the WordPress XML file you created. KreateWebsites tool will import your posts and pages, but you might need to adjust formatting or layout. This is where KreateWebsite team do this for you

Post-Migration Tasks:

6. Menus and Navigation: Rebuild your website's menu structure on KreateWebsites to mirror your WordPress site for a smooth user experience.
7. Media Files: While KreateWebsites imports some images during the content import, you might need to upload additional media files manually. Ensure file names are consistent for proper linking.
8. SEO (Search Engine Optimization): KreateWebsites offers SEO tools, but you'll likely need to optimize your website for search engines after migration. This might involve setting up redirects for old URLs and optimizing page content. It is possible to create exact same urls. Contact the KreateWebsite support team and they will guide you
9. Testing and Launch: Thoroughly test your new Kreate website to ensure everything functions correctly. Once satisfied, launch your new website!

Additional Considerations:

• Plugins and Functionality: Kreatewebsites is design to build light weight pages that can be easily migrated, maintained without developer. On other hand WordPres. Kreatewebsites can do most of things but in simpler way doesn't offer the same level of plugin functionality as WordPress. If your WordPress site relies heavily on plugins, you might need to find consider better ways to do things in KreateWebsites.
• Domain Name: You can connect your existing domain name to your KreateWebsite website. KreateWebsite support team will guide you through this process during setup. There are easy instructions too - you wil be given a cname and you can point your domain to cname

Remember, migrating a website requires effort and planning. For most of blogs, informational site KreateWebsites is better option. If you need to publish lot of content Kreatewebsites have unmatched features.