Your site is on WordPress, but the layouts belong to Elementor, Divi or WPBakery. We rebuild it on a lean custom theme your team can edit, and the URLs stay where they are.
Page builders made WordPress easy to design in. Many sites are still built that way, and some of them run well.
The trouble comes when the builder is the whole site. Divi 4 and WPBakery store every layout as shortcodes inside your content, so switching them off fills the pages with code in square brackets. Elementor keeps its layouts in its own data, and the site now mixes sections, containers and, since 2026, its new atomic elements. Add-on packs fill the gaps, each with its own licence and update.
Divi 5 now stores pages in a new format, so a Divi 4 site faces a conversion either way. That’s a good moment to decide whether the builder should stay at all.
Your team avoids changes because a drag in the wrong place breaks the page.
Spacing, buttons and headings vary because each page was styled by hand.
The Divi 4 site needs converting, and you'd rather do it once, properly.
Widget packs and extensions, each with its own licence to renew.
Google's speed scores in Search Console are amber or red, and tuning hasn't fixed them.
You don't need a new look. You need the build underneath it to hold.
Your live site carries on as normal. We rebuild a private copy alongside it and swap it in on launch day.
Pages, templates, plugins, speed scores and Search Console data. We agree what stays and what goes.
A list of reusable sections, the editor for each page type and a plugin list cut to what's needed.
The current look carried over and tidied, or refreshed. Two rounds of revisions on the homepage and two on inner pages.
Sections built, then content moved out of the builder's markup into blocks and fields.
Every page compared side by side with the old one, plus forms and speed checks.
The new build swapped in, the old builder switched off, and your team trained on the editor.
Every layout built once and reused, so new pages match the old ones.
Standard blocks and fields that work with any theme you choose later.
Fields and sections set up so a change stays where it's made.
Builder add-ons removed. The plugins left are ones the site uses.
A custom theme that loads what each page needs, served through caching and Cloudflare.
Updates, backups and security after launch, if you want us to look after it.
Swiss-Asia Financial Services, care audit (July 2020).
International Cancer Specialists, live since 20 April 2023.
From discovery to launch for most rebuilds.
Your team keeps the admin, the login and the hosting if it's good. Only the build underneath changes.
The same dashboard and the same login, with a simpler editor inside it.
Standard WordPress content survives theme changes and builder updates.
A documented custom theme in Git, with no proprietary layout data.
Memberships, multilingual sites, stores and integrations slot in without a rebuild.
Beaver Builder is part of our own stack. A builder works well on top of shared sections and clear rules about what editors can change. It struggles when it’s the only thing holding the site together.
Don’t deactivate the old builder on the live site to see what happens. Shortcode builders leave every page full of square-bracket code. Rebuild on a copy first, move the content into blocks and fields, compare each page against the original, then launch. Switch the builder off last, and keep its licence until you’ve checked every template, popup and form it used to power.
Divi 5 includes a converter that moves Divi 4 shortcodes into its new format, and older content runs in a compatibility mode until it’s converted. If the site works and the design holds, converting can be enough. If editing is already fragile, the conversion carries the same problems forward, and a rebuild costs less over the next few years.
The answers to your questions. Get in touch if you can't find what you're looking for.
Yes. We use Beaver Builder alongside ACF fields. What matters is that the builder sits on shared sections instead of holding the whole site.
Usually not. The site stays on WordPress, so most addresses stay the same. Any that change get a 301 redirect, a permanent pointer Google follows.
We convert the content inside them into standard blocks and fields. Once that’s done, the old builder can be switched off without leaving code on the page.
If the site is in good shape, Divi’s own converter may be enough. If editing is already fragile, the problems come across with the conversion. We’ll tell you which after discovery.
Sometimes that’s the right call. If the site is well set up and just slow, a health check and some tuning may be enough.
Yes. Most rebuilds keep the look and fix what’s underneath. We can refresh it at the same time if you’d like.
A short session. The editor is set up around your page types, so there’s less to learn than before.
8 to 12 weeks for most sites. Very large sites or complex templates take longer.
Most rebuilds cost $8,000 to $15,000. You get a fixed quote once discovery shows how much of the site needs reworking.
Care plans start at $147 a month. If you’d rather run it in-house, the site uses standard tools any WordPress developer knows.
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