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Migrating WordPress to Payload CMS: A Production Migration Playbook (2026)
A practical, engineering-level account of moving a multi-locale site off WordPress and onto Payload CMS 3.77, backed by PostgreSQL on Neon and deployed on Vercel. Covers the stack decisions, the HTML-to-Lexical conversion every migration depends on, media and Yoast SEO preservation, 301 redirect strategy across 100+ legacy uploads, localization over ~30 markets, and the developer experience after the cutover.
- Payload CMS
- WordPress
- Migration
- PostgreSQL
- Headless CMS
- Next.js