Wes Bos moved a 307-post WordPress site to Emdash

Wes Bos moved his last WordPress site to Emdash and cancelled the Bluehost account he had been paying $600 a year for over 15 years.

Wes Bos

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Emdash skills moved it over, migrated off stylus(!) and it's pixel perfect on the front end.

The inventory he posted is the interesting part. 307 posts, 6.7GB of photos, four custom content types, five custom page templates, 15 custom fields, one plugin he calls semi-complicated plus a handful of simple ones. He says Emdash skills did the move, including getting off Stylus, and that the front end came out pixel perfect. The page speed score went from 52 to 75.

A few days earlier Bos had asked publicly where to put the site, noting he once hosted dozens of sites on that Bluehost box and that this one is his wife's, so it needed the same experience with equivalents for every plugin. That constraint is what makes the result worth reading, since a port where someone else uses the admin daily and expects their plugins to still work is the kind of job people usually quote a contractor for.

On the admin side his verdict is short. He calls it fantastic, says it is no problem for a WordPress user, and says it is fast.

This is one migration, self-reported by the person who ran it, with no independent timing or before and after repo to inspect. Bos did not say how long it took or how much hand-holding the skills needed, so nobody outside his machine knows that yet. For working engineers the claim worth testing is not the page speed number, which depends on hosting as much as anything, but pixel perfect on the front end across five custom page templates, since that is the part a migration script normally gets 90% right and then costs you a week.