Exit ahead · WordPress to plain files
Leave WordPress.
Keep the site.
Offramp moves your WordPress site to plain files and a simple editor, looking exactly as it does today. No redesign. No rebuild. No eighteen-month “digital transformation”.
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Recommended · this way
Plain files
Same site. Same look. Nothing to patch.
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Straight on · no services
WordPress
Updates, plugins, break-ins. For ever.
Nobody stays on WordPress out of love.
Moving off WordPress usually means rebuilding the site, and nobody rebuilds a site without redesigning it. So the old one limps on, with its weekly updates, its forty plugins and its occasional break-in.
- Leaving
- A rebuild
- A redesign
- A budget
- A committee
- A year
- So you stay
Exit here
Offramp splits the decision in two.
Move first, and change nothing a visitor can see.
Redesign later, on your own schedule. Or never. We’re not your mum.
The route
Four junctions. No U-turns.
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Survey
We read your WordPress database and report what is really in there: every kind of content, every shortcode, every plugin and what it has been hoarding. You see the size of the job before any of it starts.
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Freeze
The whole site is saved as plain files, and the old theme’s own stylesheets, fonts and pictures come with it. From here on there is no WordPress to patch, and your visitors haven’t noticed a thing.
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Lift
One kind of content at a time moves out of the frozen copy and into an editor your team can use. The blog usually goes first. Pages nobody touches can stay frozen for as long as you like.
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Compare
Every page we move is photographed beside the original, and the two are measured against each other. A page is done when you cannot tell them apart.
Roundabout ahead · no publishing ban
Keep publishing while we move you.
Most moves begin with an order: nobody touch the website until we are done. Ours doesn’t. Carry on posting in WordPress while we work, and everything new comes across before the switch.
First lap
We copy the site across. Your team carries on in WordPress as if nothing were happening.
Meanwhile
You publish three more posts. We fix a typo and a broken link on the new site.
Switch-over day
We go round once more. The three posts arrive. The typo stays fixed.
Spot the difference.
- Of the pixels differ · our closest page so far
- 0.04%
- Of the pixels differ · the next closest
- 0.10%
Nobody can promise pixel perfect. Two browsers can’t even agree with each other to the pixel. So we measure. On a laptop screen, 0.04% is about 500 of its 1.3 million pixels. On one close page, the entire difference was a single capital D, drawn a hair differently. You would need both side by side and a magnifying glass. Not every page is that close yet, and none is done until you can’t tell them apart. The exciting new look can wait until somebody actually wants it.
Most of your plugins are babysitters.
They were installed to look after WordPress, not your website. The survey sorts every last one into four piles.
Gone
Caching · security · backups
They kept WordPress fast and safe. Plain files are already both. Thank them for their service.
Baked in
SEO · sitemaps · robots · redirects
Their work happens once, when the site is built, and the result is a file. Editors still get a say in what the robots may read. No dashboard nag, no premium tier.
Decoded
Page builders · custom fields · sliders
They decided how your content was stored, each in a dialect of its own. We read the dialect. The content comes out clean and the plugin stays behind.
Replaced
Forms · cookie consent · comments
Something still has to answer the door. A small hosted service does. Forms came first: each message is kept, emailed to whoever you choose, and the spam is shown out.
For the people who write the posts
Looks like WordPress. Isn’t.
Your editors get Frame, a simple editor wearing the WordPress dashboard’s clothes: Posts, Pages, Media, Categories, Tags, all where they left them. Nobody needs retraining. Most won’t notice.
- Pages sit in a tree, the way they sit on the site.
- Four hundred posts? Search, filter and sort them.
Early access
We’re early.
So are you.
Offramp is already moving two real sites: one small and tidy, one enormous, with 52 kinds of shortcode on its pages. On the big one, 461 blog posts are across with their authors, categories and tags, and so are 112 of its 154 pages.
Now we’re taking on a few more, as early case studies. You get the move at early-access prices and a say in what Offramp does next. We get to show off the before and after, with your blessing. If you look after a WordPress site you would dearly love to be rid of, tell us about it.