Migration from WordPress To Payload CMS

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Evolving Your Website from WordPress to Payload

WordPress is familiar — but often bloated, limited in performance, and painful to scale. At FocusReactive, we help teams upgrade from WordPress to Payload CMS, an open-source, developer-first platform that gives you full control over your content and backend.

Whether you need a fast marketing site or a custom content platform, Payload is ideal for building exactly what you need — without plugins or legacy baggage. We’ve migrated complex websites, designed modern admin experiences, and helped clients self-host their content securely.

Future-proof solutions at affordable budget

Budget Project complexity
Affordable (20k - 150k EUR) Premium
websites
Storyblok
Sanity
Contenful
Focus Reactive
  • Budget: 20-150k
  • Premium scalability with pre-built plugins
  • Efficient, expert tech stack integration
Super
expensive (200k EUR - ∞) Enterprise
Adobe
Salesforce
Umbraco
Bloomreach
  • Complex integrations
  • Scale
  • Enterprise security
Cheap (under 5k EUR) Generic
websiter
Blogger
Squarespace
Weebly
  • Simple interface
  • Quick setup
Low budget (5k - 20k EUR) Website
builders
Webflow
Wix
WordPress
  • Standart solutions
  • No unique features

CASE STUDIES

GLIMBLE

Complete migration to Payload with custom plugins and multiple environments, offering greater flexibility without unnecessary limitations or restrictive pricing.

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Tipico Marketing

With the help of Sanity and Next.js, we crafted a dynamic website with 50+ modular content blocks, hosted on Vercel for optimal performance.

We ensured tailored user experiences with custom localization, catering to an international audience.

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TrafficGuard

We have built from scratch more than 30 pages based on a collection of 50+ content blocks, each could be used to construct new pages without dev involvement thanks to a special Headless CMS setup

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FAQ

WordPress is flexible, but it comes with limitations: slow performance, plugin conflicts, security risks, and a heavy reliance on outdated PHP architecture. Payload CMS, by contrast, is a modern, open-source CMS built with Node.js and TypeScript, designed for developers who want full control over data models, APIs, and backend logic. It’s ideal for businesses that need scalability, clean architecture, and performance.

Yes — and in most cases, it does more. Payload offers complete schema customization, built-in media management, powerful access control, and REST/GraphQL APIs out of the box. While WordPress needs plugins to do almost everything, Payload gives you a clean foundation to build exactly what you need without bloat or overhead.

Absolutely. Payload CMS pairs perfectly with static site generators like NextJS, which allows your website to be fast, SEO-optimized, and easy to scale globally. No reliance on dynamic page loads, no slow plugin rendering — just lightning-fast pages and full Lighthouse compliance from day one.

Yes. Since Payload doesn’t rely on a plugin ecosystem like WordPress, the attack surface is significantly smaller. You own the codebase and infrastructure, so no unknown vulnerabilities. Plus, access control is customizable at the field level, making it easier to define who can edit what.

Once everything is set up — yes. Payload includes a clean, user-friendly admin panel that makes it easy for marketers and editors to update content. While the initial setup is developer-driven, everyday use is intuitive and efficient for non-technical users, especially with structured schemas and thoughtful UI design.

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