Move your food blog.
Keep every address.
Your recipes, photos and readers come with you. The software around them stays behind. Read why creators move, where your blog would go, and then see your own move, read from your site, before you decide anything.
Reads only what your site already shows the public. No sign-in.
- Finding your WordPress
- Counting posts, pages and images
- Reading your sitemap
- Opening one of your newest recipes
Your move, read from your site
Everything on
Counted from your site just now, the way the import will count it.
Every address stays exactly as it is
One of your posts, at the same address
Open it on your site todayWalk around a live Peristyle food blog
What you would stop carrying
Three reasons food bloggers move. None of them is about leaving your readers or your income behind.
Less to keep running
WordPress is the base; the plugins are the work. A food blog on WordPress usually runs a stack of them, each with its own updates, settings and ways to break. A Peristyle site is kept current for you, and the recipe card, the speed and the search details are part of the site, not add-ons.
A page readers stay on
Measured like for like, with ads switched off on both: a well-known WordPress food blog's recipe page scored 66 for mobile speed, a Peristyle recipe page 94. Ads stay part of how you earn. They just stop having to carry all of it, so they can be fewer and better placed.
Credit when your recipe is repeated
When a reader asks ChatGPT for one of your recipes, or fills a grocery cart from it on your Peristyle site, it is repeated right, with your name on it and a link back to your post.
Speed: Lighthouse, mobile, median of three runs, November 2026. A recipe page from a well-known WordPress food blog with its ads blocked, and a Peristyle recipe page, which carries none.
Where your blog moves, and how to check every word
Trust you can verify beats trust you are asked for. Each promise sits beside the place you can see it for yourself.
- Open-source software, not a black box
Your site runs on EmDash, open-source publishing software under the MIT license, built with WordPress migration in mind. Its WordPress import is part of the software itself.
How to checkRead the code
- A site that stays yours
Your site has its own database and its own storage for images, shared with no one. Your admin exports the whole site as one portable package whenever you like.
How to checkIn your admin: Settings, then Transfer
- A private copy first, never your live site
Your posts come across to a staging site at an address only you have, closed to search engines. Nothing reaches a reader and nothing replaces your WordPress until you point your domain, and the move only ever adds: it never deletes anything. If you walk away, the staging site is removed after 14 days.
How to checkOpen your staging site beside your WordPress and compare, post by post
- Your WordPress is only read
The move reads what your site already shows the public. Nothing on your WordPress is installed, changed or deleted by it, and it keeps serving your readers until you move your domain.
How to checkYour WordPress dashboard shows no new users and no changes
- Every address is checked before it counts
Before your domain moves, every address on your sitemap is asked for on the new site. Anything missing is listed, recipes first.
How to checkThe address check on your dashboard
The move, in the order it happens
Your WordPress stays the site readers reach until the very last step, and that step can be undone.
Start with your account
You, about a minute
Sign in with your email. Your staging site goes up and your newest posts come across first, free, so you can check them; the card comes later, right before your design.
What you will see
- The sign-in is a code by email. No password to make up.
- The card comes right before your design. That is when your 30 free days start.
Your staging site goes up, with your posts on it
Runs on its own, a few minutes. Nothing for you to do
A staging site: a private, working copy of your blog on Peristyle, on our plain starting design. As soon as it is up, your newest 12 posts come across on their own, free, each at the same address, with its categories, tags, featured photos and recipe cards, and every page with them: open them beside your WordPress and compare. All your posts follow once you add a card. Readers still see your WordPress; nobody finds the staging site unless you send them the address.
What you will see
- There is nothing to install on your WordPress and nothing to approve. The move reads what your site already shows the public.
- A page or category whose address is different on Peristyle gets a permanent redirect from its old one, so old links and pins still land.
- Recipe cards are read from the recipe data your recipe plugin already publishes, into real recipe fields.
- You can close the tab. We email you when it is up, and it stays up free for 14 days while you look around.
- Drafts and comments come afterwards, with EmDash's own importer and the EmDash Exporter plugin on your WordPress.
Design it, on your own staging site
You, as long as you like
With your newest posts in place, you add a card to start your 30 free days (nothing is charged before day 30), and the rest of your archive comes across while you design. Our design studio shows your own staging site in each of our designs, in your colors: pick one, tune its fonts, colors and layout, and finalize.
What you will see
- Colors, type and layout stay yours to tune in your admin afterwards; nothing is rebuilt.
- Your admin opens with a passkey you make when you want it: your fingerprint, face or device code. Peristyle never sees it.
- Your old theme is not copied: the point is a page that reads better than it did.
- Without a card, the staging site is removed after 14 days, and your WordPress never changes.
Check every address, then point your domain
You, about 20 minutes over the first week
Your dashboard asks the new site for every address on your sitemap. When the list is clean, you add one record at the company you bought your domain from. Your email is not touched.
What you will see
- A redirect counts as present: an address that had to change keeps what it earned in search.
- Then submit your sitemap in Google Search Console, open your ten most-read recipes, and keep your old host for 30 days.
Nothing is final until you say so
Your WordPress keeps running
The move only reads it. Readers reach it, unchanged, until you move the record.
The domain moves last
One record, after the address check is clean and you have looked around the new site yourself.
Going back is one record
Point it at your old host and your WordPress answers again in minutes. Keep it 30 days and that stays true.
Start with step one
Your staging site goes up and your newest posts come across free, while your WordPress keeps running. Your 30 free days start when you add a card, right before you design it, and the rest of your posts follow; then $89 a month. Cancel before day 30 and you pay nothing.
Questions creators ask before they move
Will I lose my Google rankings when I move off WordPress?
Not from the move itself. Google ranks addresses on your domain, not the software behind them. You keep your domain, every post keeps its address, and your posts come across as they are, so the signals attached to each address stay attached. A move loses rankings in one way: an address that used to answer with a page starts answering with an error. The address check in your dashboard asks the new site for every address on your sitemap before your domain moves, so that is caught while your old site is still the one readers reach.
What does Peristyle do on my staging site?
Only what the move needs: it creates your posts and pages, uploads your photos, fills in your recipe cards, makes your categories and tags, and sets redirects for any address that changes. It only ever adds; the move never deletes anything. Later it puts on the design you finalize. The staging site is private and closed to search engines the whole time. Your admin opens with a passkey you make yourself, when you want it; Peristyle never sees it and has no sign-in to your admin.
Will my site be down during the move?
No. Your staging site is built and filled at a private address while your WordPress keeps running. The switch is one DNS record. While it spreads, some readers reach the old site and some the new one, and both are live.
Do I have to transfer my domain?
No. Your domain stays registered in your name wherever you bought it. You change one record behind it, the one that says which server answers.
What about my email?
Email runs on its own records (MX records), and the move does not touch them.
What comes across from WordPress?
Automatically: every published post at the same address, with its categories, tags, featured photos and recipe cards, and every published page, with a permanent redirect from any old address that changes. Your newest posts come first, free, so you can check them; the rest once you add a card. Afterwards, with EmDash's own importer and the EmDash Exporter plugin on your WordPress: drafts, comments, menus and your SEO titles. Anything already there is skipped, so nothing is duplicated.
Do my Pinterest pins and old links still work?
Yes. They point at addresses on your domain, and those addresses are kept.
What if I want to go back?
Point the record back at your old host. Your WordPress was never changed by the move, so it is live again in minutes. Keep your old hosting for 30 days after the switch and the way back stays open.
Does reading my site on this page change anything?
No. It reads what your site already shows the public: its post counts, its sitemap and a few recent posts. Nothing is signed in to, written or kept, apart from a one-hour copy of the reading so a reload is instant.