WordPress Rescue: WPBakery to Elementor

Your website was built on a page builder that the industry is walking away from. Every WordPress update is a little riskier, the site gets a little slower, and the pool of people who can work on it gets a little smaller. I fix that — without changing how your site looks.

How to tell if this is you

Most owners don’t know what their site is built on — and there’s no reason you should. Here’s how to tell if this page is about you:

Not sure? Text me your web address and I’ll tell you what your site is built on. Free, two minutes, no follow-up sales call.

Why it matters

WPBakery (you might know it as Visual Composer) powered a huge share of WordPress sites built between roughly 2012 and 2019 — usually inside themes like Avada, Bridge, The7, BeTheme, and Uncode. It still runs millions of sites. But the ecosystem has moved on, and the sites left behind age badly: plugin conflicts pile up, speed scores sink, mobile layouts drift, and every “14 updates available” becomes a small gamble.

Here’s the honest part: if your site works today, this is not an emergency. It’s a when, not a whether. The problem is that waiting has a price — the longer a site sits on abandoned tech, the fewer people can work on it and the more the eventual fix costs. You’re reading this at the cheap end of that curve.

What I actually do

01 — Staging copy

Your live site stays untouched. All work happens on a private copy until you approve it.

02 — Every page rebuilt, pixel-faithful

Each page is rebuilt in Elementor by hand to match what you have. No converter plugins, no “close enough.”

03 — The old code stripped out

WPBakery shortcodes come out of the database completely — no leftover [vc_row] junk waiting to break later.

04 — Your Google standing preserved

URLs, page titles, meta descriptions, and headings all carry over exactly. Your rankings don’t reset.

05 — Speed pass + 30 days of support

Before-and-after PageSpeed scores, in writing. Then 30 days of support after launch, included.

This is a migration, not a redesign. Your logo, your colors, your layout, your content — all of it stays. Customers shouldn’t notice anything except that the site got faster. (If you do want a refresh while every page is open on the workbench anyway, that’s the cheapest moment you’ll ever have to do it — ask me.)

What it costs

Brochure site — up to 10 pages: $1,500–$2,500

The straightforward version: pixel-faithful rebuild, shortcode cleanup, SEO preserved, staging, 30-day support.

Business site — 10–25 pages: $3,000–$5,000

Everything above, plus blog templates, custom header and footer, forms rebuilt and tested, and the full speed pass.

WooCommerce or complex — from $6,000

Stores and big sites get scoped honestly with a $250 Website Risk Audit first — credited to the project.

For scale: a full agency redesign in Atlanta runs $10,000–$20,000. A migration modernizes the machine without touching your brand.

After the rescue

Most owners put the finished site on Website Care ($500/mo) so it never ages like this again — updates, backups, security, and a real person who answers. Month-to-month, no contracts. It’s the default, not a requirement: if you’d rather take the finished site and run, it’s yours. Everything always is.

Find out what your site is built on.

Text me your web address. I’ll tell you what you’re running, whether it’s a problem, and what it would cost to fix — straight answers, free.