Check your site
Paste your address. We read what any visitor can see (WordPress version, pages in the sitemap, forms, search, comments) and tell you up front what carries over and what doesn't. Nothing is created yet.
Paste your WordPress address and we move it onto the Internet Computer: same theme, same pages, same URLs. No PHP, database or plugins left to patch, and no rebuild.
PHP, the web server, MySQL, the theme and every plugin each ship security fixes on their own schedule. After the move, visitors are served files from a replicated network. There's nothing left at request time to exploit or update.
You see what will change before anything is created, and proof that it worked afterwards.
Paste your address. We read what any visitor can see (WordPress version, pages in the sitemap, forms, search, comments) and tell you up front what carries over and what doesn't. Nothing is created yet.
We copy every public page with the theme's styles, scripts, images and fonts, rewrite the links, and publish the copy to an asset canister on the Internet Computer.
Once it's live we request every page we copied from the new site and show the result: how many old URLs answer, which didn't, and what changed on the way.
Add your domain when you're happy. Until then your WordPress keeps serving it, untouched. Keep it as a private editor, or switch it off.
Both run PHP on every request. Existing comments stay on the page; the forms to add new ones are removed.
Membership areas and WooCommerce carts or checkout need a server. If your site is really an app, it needs a rebuild, not a copy.
It stays on your WordPress. Keep it private as your editor, or switch it off.
| Move to Webstead | Rebuild as a canister app | Stay on WordPress hosting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Content sites: pages, posts, a contact form | Sites that are really apps: logins, user data | Shops and member sites that rely on plugins |
| Time to live | Minutes | A project, often weeks | Already live |
| Looks the same | Yes, it's the same HTML | Rebuilt to match | Yes |
| Server to patch | None | None | PHP, MySQL, plugins |
| Who does it | You, in a few clicks | A developer or coding agent | Your host and you |
No. The move reads your site the way a visitor does, over its public address. There's no plugin, no export file and no admin login, so nothing on your WordPress changes.
Yes. Every page keeps its exact path (for example /2024/05/hello-world/), your sitemap.xml and robots.txt come along, and pages that WordPress redirected get a redirect page at the old address. After the move we test every copied URL on the live site and list any that don't answer.
Contact forms (Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms and plain HTML forms) are rewired to your Webstead form inbox, with an email to you for each submission. They need no PHP afterwards.
Anything that needs PHP to answer a visitor at request time: site search, posting new comments, logins and member areas, and WooCommerce carts and checkout. Existing comments stay visible. The check step lists what your site uses before you commit.
Yes. Keep WordPress somewhere private and keep editing there; one click on Webstead copies the latest version again. Or turn WordPress off entirely once the copy is live. It's your choice.
A rebuild rewrites your application as canister code, which is the right call when the site is really an app with logins, user data or custom logic. Most WordPress sites are content: pages, posts and a contact form. For those, the copy is the same site, live in minutes rather than a project.
Usually. The move works on any site whose pages are plain HTML at public URLs, including Drupal, Joomla and hand-written PHP sites. WordPress is the case we've tuned it for.
The check is free and read-only. Free while in beta; your WordPress isn't touched.