Canva → WordPress · End-to-end migration
Canva to WordPress Migration Service
- We’ll rebuild your Canva website in WordPress, faithfully matching your design
- We’ll map your pages and content into properly structured WordPress fields
- We’ll add the functionality Canva lacks: blogging, forms, SEO control and more
I have worked with James and Square Internet since 2018. My experience is entirely positive. He is honest and easy to work with. His communication is excellent, and he is extremely fast and efficient. I absolutely recommend him.
Matthew Wadsworth
Owner, Deux Elles
Why Move From Canva To WordPress?
Canva makes it easy to build an attractive website quickly, and for many businesses it’s a great starting point. WordPress opens up the next chapter: a proper CMS backend, a 60,000-plugin ecosystem, full SEO control and a publishing workflow that scales with your team.
A proper content management system
WordPress gives you a structured backend where content, media and design are handled separately. Your team can publish pages, write blog posts and manage your entire content operation from a familiar dashboard, without needing to touch the design or involve a developer for routine changes.
60,000+ plugins for any feature you need
Whether you need a contact form, a booking calendar, a membership area, WooCommerce for product sales or a live chat integration, WordPress has a plugin for it. Features that require bespoke development elsewhere are often a single plugin install away.
Full control over your SEO
WordPress puts you in control of every SEO detail: page titles, meta descriptions, canonical tags, structured data schemas and URL slugs. Pair it with a tool like Yoast SEO and search engines get exactly what they need to understand and rank each of your pages.
A platform you own and can grow
Your WordPress site runs on hosting you choose, uses open-source software with no licence fees, and can be extended by any WordPress developer. There are no limits on page count, no plan tiers to upgrade, and no platform dependency affecting what your site can do next.
Why us
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How it works
How Does Our Canva To WordPress Migration Service Work?
Migrating from Canva to WordPress is a rebuild project rather than a standard data transfer. There is no direct export path between the two platforms, so we work in three stages: rebuilding your design in WordPress using Elementor, mapping your page content into the correct WordPress fields, and testing everything thoroughly before your domain switches across.
Rebuilding Your Canva Website In WordPress
We start by recreating your Canva site’s visual design in WordPress using Elementor. Every page template is hand-built to match your existing look: fonts, colours, layouts and mobile behaviour. Because Canva bundles design and content together in a single canvas, we work from your live site to accurately extract both, so the end result faithfully matches your current site while giving you a proper editable CMS behind it.
Content Mapping
Canva embeds all text, images and graphics directly within the design layer rather than separating content into structured fields. We extract each page’s copy and assets, then map them into the appropriate WordPress structures: page content, headings, media library items and metadata, so everything is editable from the WordPress backend and ready for your team to manage going forward.
Testing & Going Live
Before going live, we test every template for visual accuracy, mobile responsiveness and correct page metadata. We check that your Canva URL structure maps cleanly to WordPress slugs, that all images have loaded from the media library rather than any external design source, and that any required redirects are in place. Once you’ve signed off on the staging build, we point your domain to the new site and monitor the first few days live.
Our customers rate us EXCELLENT.
The team
The Team Behind Your Canva To WordPress Migration
James is the owner of Square Internet and is responsible for making sure everything runs like a well oiled machine.
Danilo is a skilled senior full stack WordPress developer with years of experience building, debugging and optimising WordPress sites.
Martin is a certified ScrumMaster (CSM)® and has 8 years experience in the software industry. He is responsible for managing our WordPress support projects and ensuring that work is completed in full to deadline.
From our end, customers have been very happy with the sites your team put together. Quite a few have had zero requested revisions and had us immediately update their DNS. We really appreciate your help and high-quality work.
Pre-launch checklist
Canva to WordPress Migration Checklist
Is your Canva to WordPress migration taking place on a staging environment, completely separate from your current live Canva site? Building on staging means your visitors see nothing until the new site is ready, and your existing Canva site keeps running without interruption throughout.
Have all pages and their content been correctly brought across from Canva to WordPress? Because Canva doesn’t separate text and images from the design layer, it’s especially important to go through each page carefully to confirm that all copy, images and downloadable assets have been extracted and mapped correctly.
Does your WordPress site have the same design and functionality? Check that all functionality works as it should, it could be different on WordPress
Is your newly migrated site fully mobile responsive? If it wasn’t before, should it be now?
Use view page source by right clicking with your mouse on a page or post to check that the meta data is correct and matches your old site
Ensure that you are using the correct domain prefix, if you are using www on your old website, your new site on WordPress should do the same
Check that any scripts used for marketing, analytics or embedding third party services have been placed in the correct place on your new WordPress website, or these services may break
Frequently asked questions about Canva to WordPress migrations
There’s no automated export path from Canva to WordPress. Canva stores your content inside the design itself rather than in a structured format that WordPress can read, so there’s no plugin or import tool that moves content across reliably. Instead, we rebuild your site by hand: extracting text and assets from each Canva page and recreating the design in WordPress using Elementor. The result is a properly structured WordPress site that looks exactly like your Canva design, with a full CMS behind it.
No — protecting your search visibility is one of the main reasons to migrate properly. We preserve your existing URL structure, page titles and meta data, and put any required 301 redirects in place so that link equity carries over. This is exactly where automated tools fall down, and exactly where a hand-built migration protects you.
No. We build and test your new WordPress site on a separate staging environment, completely away from your live site and your customers. Your current Canva site stays online and untouched the entire time. We only switch over to the new website once it has been fully tested and signed off by you.
No. Automated tools are unreliable and struggle even with the simplest sites. They routinely mangle content, site structure and meta data. We extract and map your Canva page content into the correct fields in WordPress, so pages, images and meta data all land in the right place. Your new site is then built on top.
We can work with whichever framework you’re comfortable with. For most clients we recommend Elementor as the most cost-effective and easy-to-maintain option, but if you prefer Gutenberg, a custom theme or another builder, we’re happy to build to that.
Every site is different, so we price each migration individually based on the number of templates, the volume of content and the complexity of functionality. Most projects fall between the £2,000 to £5,000 range. Fill in the form below with a link to your current site and we’ll get back in touch to provide a quote.
Due to our thorough testing process, your site will go live seamlessly. However, we will be on hand to assist should any teething issues arise, and many clients choose to move onto one of our ongoing WordPress maintenance plans for updates, backups, security and support.
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