Switching from Wordpress to Elementor

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I have been asked to help a friend move his site from plain WordPress to Elementor. The site is quite old and has a very old theme. I am familiar with Elementor as a result of an ongoing project to totally rebuild my business website.

In my case, I have created a staging site and am remaking each of the 100 or so complicated pages using Elementor. My friend's site has about 50 posts and 5 pages. Would it be better to build an updated, staged version of the site using Elementor or simply remake every page on the existing site in Elementor. If we do the latter, when should the theme be changed, at the beginning or after all of the pages have been rebuild using Elementor?

Other than doing a full backup before getting started, are there any other preparations that should be done?

 

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It really depends on your ability, not only with Elementor but keeping things lightweight with a consideration of existing possible SEO rankings and page weight.

Personally, with a small site of 5 pages and 50 posts, It maybe better to create the header, footer and any global elements. Including the post global template to cover all the 50 posts.

Then simple make the 5 pages one by one without disrupting the live site URL's

If you feel you are competent to setup a staging site, doing it all on there before migrating the staging site back, checking existing SEO audits and correcting the internal URL's etc that is obviously the better option if you're going to take alot of time doing it, but for something you could possibly do in less than a day or two, I wouldnt be put off doing it semi live providing you've got a backup and providing the site isnt an active ecommerce store or something that will have changing parts which make a backup outdated.