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BACK TO OUR WORKCLIENT: North East London Health and Care Partnership
SECTOR: Healthcare
SCOPE: WordPress Migration
North East London Health and Care Partnership needed assistance with some WordPress migration. NHS NEL HCP is an alliance between health, care, and community partners. They work to create meaningful improvements in health and well-being.
Our job was to migrate the site to a new hosting platform, maintain it and then provide ongoing support.
In this case, their existing website was built in the Sitekit CMS. We had to rebuild the site and migrate from one CMS to another. The old CMS (Sitekit) was not able to migrate directly into WordPress.
There are potential risks linked with website migration. Our job was to mitigate these by thoroughly planning out and testing the migration process. Data loss, compatibility issues, plug-in reliability, and importantly security, were all considered as part of the WordPress migration.
Our expert WordPress technicians knew there could be a chance of data loss if the process wasn't executed properly.
The NHS regularly publishes new content and needs to make changes to its content. WordPress constantly evolves with new updates that enhance functionality, features, and compatibility.
With the current site still live, we set up a development server. This allowed us to build the WordPress site side by side. The live site remained to ensure the design, layout, styles, and content stayed the same.
Once the site was completely rebuilt and the content was migrated, we updated the DNS. Then the website pointed to WordPress instead of Sitekit.
We ensured we had a robust backup strategy in place for the website’s data, files, and databases. This also mitigated any data losses.
GWCM offers different levels of technical support for WordPress. Our monthly maintenance support ensures the website is up to date with the latest security patches and fixes. We help protect the website and its data from potential risks and attacks.
Our WordPress maintenance allows the NHS to keep the website regularly up to date and accessible. We carry out tasks like adding new pages, updating plugins and themes, fixing broken links, and ensuring the website displays perfectly across multiple devices and browsers.
Migrating the website to WordPress and a new hosting platform offered several benefits. Faster page load times and better overall performance created a smoother user experience and potentially higher search engine rankings.
By keeping the website up to date, we ensure the website remains compatible with the latest WordPress versions while taking advantage of new features and improvements.
Our ongoing maintenance and support also provide peace of mind and easy task management for content updates.
