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What is the safest way to migrate from WordPress to a headless or lightweight CMS?

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The client has ranking articles and backlinks. How do we change platforms without losing important URLs?
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Crawl and export every indexable URL, title, canonical, redirect, structured-data object, media reference, and internal link before migration. Map each old URL to an equivalent new URL, retaining valuable paths where possible. Validate server responses, 301 redirects, sitemaps, robots rules, metadata, and content parity in staging. Deploy in controlled batches, monitor logs and Search Console, and keep rollback backups. Treat template improvements as a separate change when practical so performance changes are easier to diagnose.
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