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The 1st Call Immigration website rebuilt from WordPress for speed and lower costs

1st Call Immigration

1st Call Immigration came to us with a pressing financial and technical challenge: their 5-page WordPress website was costing over four figures annually in hosting fees alone.

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Project Overview

Because of the number of plugins and the transition to the Gutenberg editor, it had prevented content updates for five years due to repeated PHP errors. As a small immigration advisory business in Nottingham, they needed a cost-effective solution that would maintain their local SEO presence while providing an intuitive content management system that wouldn't require technical expertise to update regularly.

We moved them off WordPress onto a barebones Sanity and Next.js solution that drastically reduced hosting costs while delivering near-perfect lighthouse scores across performance, accessibility, and SEO metrics. By tailoring the content blocks specifically for immigration services content and using Sanity's real-time preview capability, we transformed the client's editorial experience.

Common questions

1st Call Immigration project FAQs

What buyers ask us about the 1st Call Immigration project, answered from the work itself

Why move a five-page site off WordPress at all?
The hosting alone was costing over four figures a year, and the plugin stack plus the move to Gutenberg had thrown repeated PHP errors that blocked content updates for five years. For a five-page site that is a lot of cost and risk for very little page count, which is what made the CMS migration worth doing.
What did the rebuild do to running costs?
The barebones Sanity and Next.js build drastically reduced hosting costs against the four-figure annual WordPress bill. There are no plugins to license or keep patched, which is where most of the old spend and most of the breakage came from.
Does a small local business lose SEO by replatforming?
It did not here. Maintaining the local SEO presence was a stated requirement of the project, and the rebuilt site landed near-perfect Lighthouse scores across performance, accessibility and SEO, which is a better starting position than the site it replaced.
Can non-technical staff actually update the site afterwards?
Yes. We tailored the Sanity content blocks specifically to immigration services content rather than shipping a generic page builder, and real-time preview means an editor sees the change before publishing. That is the Sanity development work that replaced five years of being unable to publish at all.

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Sanity CMS development agency

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Sanity CMS development agency for teams shipping content at scale. Preferred Sanity partner, community ambassadors and authors of Turbo Start Sanity. We build studios, migrate from WordPress and Strapi, and tune Sanity so editors actually want to use it.

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CMS migration agency for teams replatforming off WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot, Drupal, Sitecore or Framer. We move content, preserve URLs, and keep search rankings intact so you don't lose 30% of your traffic the week after launch.

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