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Saqib Shah
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Just completed another large-scale WordPress migration — and the client left this 👆

5 stars. "Amazing work ethics and delivery."

Here's what goes into a real WordPress migration that actually works:

1️⃣ Full site audit before touching anything
2️⃣ Staging environment replication
3️⃣ Database export + media offload strategy
4️⃣ DNS cutover with zero-downtime window
5️⃣ Post-migration SEO + performance check

Most freelancers skip steps 1 and 5. That's where clients get burned.

If you're a dev getting into migrations — treat it like a system architecture problem, not a copy-paste job.

And if you're a client who needs this done right — I'm saqibdev on Legiit.

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