I have an eCommerce website that is built on CodeIgniter, my website has many glitches and flaws due to which I am not able to scale it, especially in terms of marketing. I don’t have a team and I am solely handling the website. As it is built on CI, I have to rely on my developer for any minor change, and most of the time he is not available.
I am thinking of migrating it to WordPress as I don’t want to spend a huge amount on any other technology like Magento or PWA, my reason for migrating is I need more control over the website in terms of any changes or updates I want to make on my website. As I don’t have any coding or IT knowledge it is impossible for me to make any changes to my current website. Whereas in WordPress I would be able to make a lot of changes from my end(in my opinion).
So I just want to know whether it is a good decision to migrate from CI to WordPress and what should be my go-to plan for doing so.
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Only thing you need to keep in mind is tailor it for your own needs at starting by a good developer. First wordpress management via dashboard is easy but often gets complicated as plugins increases. Security and performance promises of developers should be kept in mind. Migration can be taken care by developer. From store manager and admin pov WordPress is super friendly
>what should be my go-to plan for doing so.
– getting someone that knows what theyre doing to do it for you
– making sure that all your old links still work, and redirect to the equivalent new ones
– implement new site using maintainable themes and plugins, not hacked, cracked or patched ancient themes and plugins that wont update past a couple of months.
– use some kind of managed hosting so that the only thing you need to worry about is content.
Yes WordPress would be good for your situation. You probably want to hire a WordPress Developer who has done this kind of migration with ecommerce before and tell them to build it in a way in which you can control it after he/she is done.
If you want to offload the technical part, then you may want to look for hosted eCommerce solution like Shopify, BigCommerce, Ecwid and so on. WordPress, I assumed that you plan on WooCommerce, will still require you to regular maintain or manage the software, like upgrade and so on, to fix any vulnerabilities.