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Migrate

Bring your WordPress site over in an afternoon.

Kaleta imports a standard WordPress export: posts, pages, categories, tags and images – and creates a 301 redirect from every old address, so links and search rankings keep working.

Built-in importer

An afternoon for a typical business website

What comes across.

  • Posts become news, with categories and tags
  • Pages become pages – optionally straight into the builder
  • Images are downloaded into Media
  • Drafts stay drafts, published posts stay published
  • A 301 redirect for every old address, including /?p=123 links

What does not.

  • Page-builder layouts (Elementor, Divi…) – the content comes, the layout does not.
  • Plugin shortcodes – the preview lists them so you know which pages to check.
  • Comments – a business website does not need them.
  • User accounts – imported news belongs to whoever runs the import.
  • SEO plugin titles (Yoast, Rank Math) – set titles and descriptions per page in Kaleta.

Step by step

How the move works.

No command line. Test everything on a subdomain first; the old site keeps running until you switch the domain.

  1. Export – in WordPress go to Tools → Export, choose All content and download the XML file.
  2. Preview – in Kaleta open Import and export → WordPress and upload the file. The preview counts posts, pages and images and lists shortcodes it cannot convert.
  3. Import – it works in batches, so it survives the time limits of shared hosting.
  4. Images – download them into Media as a separate step, when you are ready.
  5. Check – open a few old addresses; each redirects to its new page. You can run the import again; what it already converted is skipped.

Rebuild with Claude

Let Claude redo the pages.

Connect Claude, give it an old page – its address or saved HTML – and it rebuilds it as a draft from Kaleta sections, in your design system. You review the preview and publish.

How Claude works with Kaleta

Here is our old Services page. Rebuild it in Kaleta with our colours, keep the texts and redirect the old address.

Done – the Services page is saved as a draft with a 301 redirect from the old address. Here is the preview link.

Keep your rankings

An SEO checklist for the switch.

Redirects do most of the work. These few steps do the rest.

Keep the same domain and switch it over only when the new site is ready

Open your most visited old URLs and check they redirect to the right page

Set titles and descriptions for your main pages

Submit the new sitemap (/sitemap.xml) in Google Search Console

Set the company details – search engines get them as structured data

FAQ

Moving questions.

Does the import change my WordPress site?

No. You only download an export file from WordPress; the old site keeps running until you switch the domain over.

How big a site can I import?

The import reads the file in batches, so hundreds of posts are no problem even on shared hosting. The upload limit of your hosting decides how large a single export file can be.

Can I run the import again?

Yes. Kaleta remembers what it already converted and skips it, so you can import again after a new export – changes you made in Kaleta are not overwritten.

Can I test it first?

Yes – install Kaleta on a subdomain, import there and compare. When you are happy, move it to the main domain or import again on the live install.

Other moves

Moving from somewhere else.

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Ready to move?

Download Kaleta, install it on a test subdomain and start with one page – about ten minutes to your first preview.