Migrate WordPress to Next.js — automatically
WordPress themes accumulate years of PHP template overrides, shortcodes and plugin glue. Moving to a modern headless stack usually means a from-scratch rebuild — and quietly losing behavior buried in the template hierarchy.
CodeShift converts WordPress themes into headless Next.js 14 sites automatically. It reads your theme's template hierarchy, custom post types and queries, then generates an App Router project — server components, incremental static regeneration, and a typed content layer — that renders the same content model. The output is verified file-by-file, documented, and ready to deploy on any modern host.
Target stack: Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript
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What actually gets modernized
PHP template hierarchy
App Router layouts & pages
The Loop & WP_Query
Typed content-layer queries
Shortcodes & template tags
Reusable server components
Full page reloads
ISR + streaming server rendering
Theme functions.php glue
Typed utilities & config
Plugin-dependent behavior
Explicit, documented code
How the migration engine works
Analyze
The whole repository is scanned: framework and version detected, every dependency mapped, risks flagged before a line is touched.
Plan
A dependency-aware migration plan orders files leaves-first, so everything a file imports is migrated before the file itself.
Rewrite
Each file is restructured into modern, idiomatic architecture — streamed live, with already-migrated symbols kept consistent across files.
Verify
Every file passes structural checks and an adversarial behavior-parity review; failures are repaired automatically before you see them.
WordPress to Next.js: frequently asked questions
Can a WordPress theme be converted to Next.js automatically?+
Yes. CodeShift parses the theme's template hierarchy, custom post types, and queries, then rewrites them as a Next.js 14 App Router project with server components and a typed content layer that mirrors your existing content model.
Does my WordPress content survive the migration?+
Yes — the migrated site is headless: your content stays in WordPress (or exports to a typed content layer), and the new Next.js frontend queries it. Nothing about the content itself is rewritten.
Why move from WordPress to Next.js?+
Speed, security, and Core Web Vitals: static and ISR-rendered pages served from the edge instead of PHP rendering on every request, no plugin attack surface, and a modern developer workflow with TypeScript and Git.
What about SEO during the switch?+
The generated site preserves URL structure, metadata, and semantic markup from your theme, and Next.js server rendering keeps every page fully crawlable — typically improving rankings because the pages get dramatically faster.
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