WordPress to Laravel Filament Migration
For sites that are really applications. Move off WordPress and its plugin stack onto Laravel, with Filament as the admin layer and your business rules written as code instead of hooks.
The signal that you need this, not a CMS
You are fighting WordPress to express rules it was never designed to hold: multi-step approvals, availability and capacity, role-specific pricing, integrations that must not silently fail. Every one of those lives in a plugin, a filter, or a snippet in functions.php that predates the current team.
That is an application, and it should be built like one. Laravel provides the framework; Filament provides the admin interface over your own models.
How the migration runs
- Domain modelling — the rules currently implied by plugins, written down explicitly.
- Data extraction from the WordPress database into a normalised relational schema.
- Filament resources for every editable entity, with validation and permissions.
- Business logic as tested application code, not hooks.
- URL preservation and redirects for everything that was public.
- Frontend in Blade and Livewire, or React over Inertia where the interaction warrants it.
WordPress and Filament, side by side
| Criterion | WordPress (today) | Laravel Filament |
|---|---|---|
| Content model | Posts/pages + ACF bolt-ons | Eloquent models + migrations |
| Editor experience | Familiar, plugin-dependent | Admin panel, developer-defined |
| Frontend freedom | Themes; headless possible | Blade/Livewire or Inertia + React |
| Public attack surface | PHP origin + plugin surface | PHP origin, no plugin market |
| Who patches, how fast | You — core, plugins and themes | You, via Composer; small surface |
| Supply chain | ~60k plugins, uneven quality | Composer, curated |
| EN/AR and RTL | WPML or Polylang add-on | Laravel localisation, custom build |
| Custom business logic | Hooks; fights the grain | A full Laravel application |
| Hosting and ops | Cheap shared through to managed | App server + database + queue |
| Licence and cost shape | GPL core; plugin licences | MIT, free |
| Team skills | PHP/WordPress, widely available | PHP/Laravel |
When this is the wrong choice
If your site is genuinely content-led — pages, articles, campaigns, two languages — this is heavier than you need and the editor experience is worse. Go to WordPress to Sanity instead, or compare all three destinations on the migration comparison.
Some WordPress sites stopped being sites years ago — they are booking systems, portals or pricing engines held together by plugins. We rebuild those as Laravel applications with Filament as the back office, so the logic is testable, the data model is explicit, and adding a feature does not mean finding a plugin.
What we do
Domain modelling
The rules your plugins imply, made explicit and testable.
Relational data migration
WordPress tables and meta flattened into a schema that makes sense.
Filament admin build
Resources, validation, permissions and dashboards over your own models.
Business logic as code
Policies, queues and events — with tests, not snippets.
URL preservation and redirects
Everything that was public stays reachable.
Frontend rebuild
Blade and Livewire, or React over Inertia where it earns its complexity.
How it runs
The same transparent shape every engagement follows — you always know where you are and what it costs.
Discover
A short, fixed-price sprint: audit, stakeholder interviews and the questions that decide the shape of the work.
Define
Scope, architecture and a fixed estimate — you know what's being built, why, and what it costs before we start.
Deliver
Tight design-build loops with weekly preview releases. You watch it become real on a URL, not in a deck.
Grow
Launch is the midpoint. Measurement, iteration and support keep the work earning after day one.
Fair questions
How long does a migration take?
Six to fourteen weeks for most projects. The variable is how much undocumented behaviour is buried in plugins and functions.php — discovery is usually the longest phase, not the build.
Will we keep our URLs and rankings?
Yes. Every public URL is inventoried and either preserved or redirected, verified against analytics before launch.
What happens to our plugins?
The behaviour survives; the plugins do not. Each one is either rebuilt as application code, replaced by a service, or dropped once we establish nobody depends on it.
Can we run both during the cutover?
Yes. We typically move one capability at a time behind the same domain, with WordPress serving the remainder until the last path is switched.