Stop maintaining a platform.Start running a business.
A WooCommerce to Shopify migration isn't just a platform swap — it's the decision to stop spending your week on plugin updates, hosting patches, and security scans, and start building something that actually grows. BLKDG handles every layer of the move: your data, your SEO, your redirects, and your store's performance. 100% redirect coverage before launch. Zero guesswork. One team from audit to launch.
Plan Your Migration
Tell us where you're migrating from and what you're moving. We'll come back with a scope, a timeline, and a redirect strategy — no obligation.
If you’re looking for a WooCommerce to Shopify migration partner, you already know why you’re leaving. The plugin treadmill. The update anxiety. The developer bills for things that should just work. BLKDG is a Shopify migration studio that moves stores off WooCommerce and WordPress with full SEO continuity, clean data transfer, and a technical audit that shows you exactly what you’re escaping. If your store is your livelihood, you don’t migrate twice. You do it right the first time.
You built something worth finding. The platform you're on is the only thing in your way.
WooCommerce sold you on free. But free was the platform — not the operating costs. Right now you're paying for hosting, plugin licenses, and developer hours just to stay current. Not to improve. Not to grow. Just to keep the thing running. Every month you're on WordPress, you're paying a maintenance tax that Shopify merchants don't pay. And every time you skip an update because you're afraid it'll break the checkout, you're accumulating security debt that compounds quietly — until it doesn't.
Meanwhile, your site is losing the performance battle. WooCommerce loads its JavaScript and CSS on every page by default — including blog posts and static pages that have nothing to do with commerce. Cart fragment requests fire on every page load. Third-party scripts block the main thread. Google sees all of it. Your conversion rate does too. The merchant with a worse product and a faster site is winning customers that should be yours — not because they earned it, but because their stack doesn't fight them every day.
And then there's the migration fear. The real reason most WooCommerce merchants stay too long isn't loyalty — it's dread. They've heard the horror stories: lost rankings, broken URLs, customers locked out of their accounts. Those stories are real. But they happen to merchants who migrate without a plan — who forget to redirect /product/ to /products/, who skip blog post URL mapping, who don't build a customer re-authentication flow before launch day. They're not the inevitable cost of migrating. They're the cost of migrating wrong.
Why most WooCommerce → Shopify migrations fail
Most migrations fail because they're treated as a data export problem, not an SEO and business continuity problem. The tool runs, the products move, and nobody maps the indexed URLs Google has been crediting for years. WordPress uses /product/, /product-category/, and /shop/. Shopify uses /products/ and /collections/. Every one of those addresses needs a permanent 301 redirect or you hand your link equity to a 404. Blog posts migrate but their WordPress URL structure doesn't match Shopify's /blogs/ path. Customer passwords can't transfer — WordPress and Shopify hash them differently — and without a re-authentication flow, your best customers hit a login wall on day one. None of this is hard. All of it gets skipped when someone treats migration as a checkbox.
What running WooCommerce is really costing you
Add it up. Managed WooCommerce hosting. Plugin licenses for the features Shopify includes natively — subscriptions, advanced shipping, tax, product bundles. A developer retainer to handle update conflicts, broken checkouts, and the security patches that can't wait. The remediation bill when one unpatched plugin gets exploited. The revenue you'll never recover from one bad update that takes the store down on a Friday night. PCI compliance on a self-hosted WordPress stack: an annual questionnaire, quarterly scans, and the standing anxiety that your host's definition of "PCI compliant" and yours aren't the same. WooCommerce is free the same way a fixer-upper is cheap.
You don't have to migrate blind.
Most merchants sit on WooCommerce because they're afraid of what they'll lose in the move. Our free audit shows you exactly what you have — every indexed URL, every integration, every plugin dependency — and exactly what it takes to move it cleanly. No pressure. Just a clear map of what the migration looks like and what it protects.
We Know Exactly What Breaks in a WooCommerce Migration.
Every migration we run starts with an audit, not an assumption. Because the worst thing that can happen to your business isn't the migration — it's the three months of traffic loss after a migration done wrong.
BLKDG is a full-service SEO and Shopify studio built around one principle: your digital presence should work as hard as you do. We rebuild stores with years of WordPress blog content, complex WooCommerce subscription logic, and custom PHP that has to be rewritten in Liquid from scratch — protecting rankings and customer data through the move, and handing off a site that doesn’t need another agency to fix it. Our technical SEO audit runs before a single product moves.
Every engagement includes full SEO migration: URL mapping, 301 redirect implementation, sitemap resubmission, and post-launch monitoring. If you need a storefront that performs, we build on custom Shopify themes with Core Web Vitals baked in. And we set up Klaviyo so your email flows trigger correctly from Shopify data — not the broken WooCommerce field mappings you’ve been working around for years. One team. One handoff. No gaps.
Audit. Migrate. Verify.
We Map What You Have
Before a single product moves, we crawl your WooCommerce site and build a complete inventory: every indexed URL (products at /product/, categories at /product-category/, your /shop/ page, every blog post), every plugin and the feature it powers, every integration, and every custom PHP function that would break in Shopify without a rebuild. You get a clear migration scope, a redirect mapping matrix, and a Shopify app replacement plan that closes every functional gap your plugins currently fill. No assumptions. No surprises mid-migration.
We Move Everything That Matters
Products, variants, metafields, customer records, and order history move first. Blog content migrates from WordPress’s post structure into Shopify’s /blogs/ path, with redirects mapped from your old WordPress permalink structure. Because WordPress and Shopify hash passwords differently, customers can’t bring their passwords with them — we build a re-authentication flow and draft the email sequence that gets your account holders back into the store without friction. Every Shopify app equivalent is configured and tested against your WooCommerce plugin’s behavior before we flip the switch. Your custom theme is built in parallel so launch day is clean.
We Prove the Migration Held
Launch isn’t done when the store goes live — it’s done when we’ve verified it. We run a full post-launch crawl to confirm every 301 redirect resolves, no indexed URL returns a 404, and Shopify’s /products/ and /collections/ paths are indexed with the authority your old WooCommerce URLs carried. We resubmit your sitemap to Google Search Console, monitor crawl coverage, and track keyword position movement by URL so we catch any ranking disruption before it compounds. The migration isn’t closed until the numbers say it held.
Every Layer of Your Store, Migrated and Verified
Every Indexed URL Redirected
WooCommerce and Shopify use fundamentally different URL structures. We map and redirect every one — including your WordPress blog archive.
No Customer Left Behind
Customer records migrate. Passwords can't — WordPress hashes them in a format Shopify can't read. We handle the re-authentication experience so your customers don't hit a wall on day one.
Every SKU, Every Variant, Every Word
WooCommerce's product data model is more complex than Shopify's in some areas and less in others. We do the translation, not a blind import.
No Feature Left Broken
Every WooCommerce plugin you depend on needs a Shopify equivalent — or needs to be rebuilt. We map the replacement before migration, not after.
Before and After
The Cost of a Botched Migration
Every dollar you put into keeping WooCommerce current is a dollar your Shopify-native competitor is putting into paid media, email, and conversion. The platform gap compounds. The longer you stay, the further behind you fall — not because they're smarter, but because they're not fighting their infrastructure every day.
The overwhelming majority of new WordPress vulnerabilities come from plugins — and you're running dozens of them. Every one is a surface area. A single exploited vulnerability costs real money in remediation before you factor in lost revenue, lost customer trust, and the incident-reporting obligation that follows.
Merchants who migrate without a redirect mapping plan can lose a large share of organic traffic overnight, and it doesn't come back fast. Months of ranking recovery, re-indexing, and authority rebuilding — all preventable with a proper audit. The fear of a bad migration is valid. The answer isn't to stay on WooCommerce; it's to migrate with a team that maps every redirect before launch.
Years of WordPress content — product guides, comparisons, educational posts — live at URLs Google has indexed, ranked, and credited with authority. When those posts move to Shopify's /blogs/ path without 301 redirects, that authority evaporates and your content investment becomes a 404. We migrate blog content and its SEO equity together, or we don't call it a migration.
Before you ask.
They don't come with you — and that's largely the point. Every WooCommerce plugin you're running has a Shopify app equivalent, a native Shopify feature that replaces it, or needs to be rebuilt as custom functionality. Before we migrate a single product, we audit your plugin stack and build a replacement map: what gets replaced by a Shopify app, what gets replaced by Shopify's built-in functionality, and what requires custom Liquid or Shopify Functions work. You'll know the full app cost delta before the migration starts.
Your blog content migrates — but the URL structure changes, and that matters for SEO. WordPress stores posts at paths like /blog/post-slug, while Shopify uses /blogs/news/post-slug. Every indexed post URL needs a 301 redirect from its old WordPress path to its new Shopify path, or you forfeit the ranking authority that content has accumulated. We migrate the post content, clean up WordPress formatting quirks that break in Shopify's editor, map every post URL in the redirect matrix, and verify post-launch that Google has crawled and indexed the new paths.
Not if the migration is done correctly. WooCommerce uses /product/slug for products, /product-category/slug for categories, and /shop/ as the main shop page. Shopify uses /products/slug, /collections/slug, and /collections/all. Every old URL needs a permanent 301 redirect to its new counterpart, or every backlink, Google cache, and customer bookmark hits a 404. We build the redirect matrix from a full crawl of your live site — not just the top products, but every indexed URL — and verify every redirect resolves cleanly before and after launch.
No — and this is one of the most commonly missed migration issues. WordPress and Shopify use different password hashing algorithms, so there is no path to transfer customer passwords. Instead, we build a re-authentication flow that sends your customers a branded password reset email around launch, with clear context about why it's happening and a frictionless path back into their account. We also evaluate whether Shopify Multipass is appropriate if you have an existing SSO system. Your customers won't be locked out — they'll be guided through a clean re-onboarding.
Yes — significantly. On a self-hosted WooCommerce stack, PCI DSS compliance is your responsibility: your hosting environment, your server configuration, your annual questionnaire, your quarterly scans. Even with an off-site payment processor, your server still serves the checkout page, which keeps you in scope. Shopify is a Level 1 PCI DSS certified platform — the highest level available. On Shopify, the platform's infrastructure, checkout, and payment processing are covered under Shopify's certification. The standing anxiety of "is my WordPress server PCI compliant" goes away.
For a typical DTC store — a few hundred to a few thousand products, a blog, standard integrations — the migration runs from audit to launch in a matter of weeks. Stores with complex WooCommerce plugin logic, large catalogs, or significant blog archives that need careful URL mapping run longer. Cost depends on scope: data migration and redirect mapping, a full custom theme build, Klaviyo migration, and post-launch SEO monitoring are each additive. We scope every engagement after the audit — because the scope is what the audit reveals.