It’s a transfer of your existing WordPress website from its current hosting environment to Orbit’s WPEngine hosting and managed services plan. The website adoption process allows Orbit to provide support and make enhancements on a website we did not build.
During this transfer process, our goal is to
We’ve built our process into clear, predictable steps to ensure transparency and confidence from kickoff to ongoing enhancements.
During this 30-minute call, the PM will discuss the project plan (as we’ve outlined below) and confirm your reasons and requirements for the adoption that would help lead discovery efforts and the final recommendation for the adoption.
In this step, we gain a comprehensive understanding of your website’s architecture and hosting needs, resulting in a recommendation and plan for the adoption.
To get started, you’ll need to:
After you get us access and install the plugin, we’ll begin our discovery and documentation, which includes:
Your website and database are migrated to our WPEngine environment using a temporary development domain. This is where we’ll conduct our reviews to ensure we do not harm your live website.
Includes our deep dive into your site’s health, CMS configuration, features, plugins, modules, and custom programming. We also assess traffic requirements and the feasibility of future programming changes.
A high-level audit of your websites’ status for accessibility, data privacy, and cookie consent.
Review of your existing server setup to determine the optimal configuration for stability, performance, and uptime on our managed hosting.
We meet with you to review our discovery research and documentation, which includes:
In this discussion, we’ll work with you to confirm the next steps to proceed with the adoption and launch – OR – go with an alternative approach.
Our final recommendation is based on the discovery research, your adoption goals, the state of your current website, and any future plans for it.
When we move forward with the adoption, we’ll help you prioritize any updates from our findings that align with your adoption goals and provide an SOW/timeline for the work, which could be completed before launch or shortly after.
Once the plan to transfer the website is agreed upon, we can begin the transfer process. This can take 1-2 weeks, depending on how much remediation work is agreed upon before launch. Here’s what this step looks like:
After setting up a code repository for version control, we’ll begin updates. At a minimum, we’ll update WordPress core and plugins, but if there are other high-priority updates that have been agreed upon, we’ll implement those, too.
Configure uptime monitoring and a dedicated schedule for future plugin and core code updates. At this point, we’ll provide a hosting and managed services agreement and invoice.
Review and update Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Google Search Console to align with Orbit best practices.
We work with your team to create and implement a launch testing plan.
Launch the website on Orbit’s servers!
After the site is live in the new hosting environment, the adoption project is closed, and you are introduced to support services.
When you’re ready to start an adoption project, contact your Project Manager or Web Strategist, and we’ll get you a proposal straight away.