Arc XP to WordPress Migration Service
Top Reasons Enterprises Migrate from Arc XP to WordPress
Reduce Platform and Operational Costs
Arc XP is a premium digital experience platform built for large-scale publishing, but it comes with significant licensing, infrastructure, and ongoing operational costs.
Replatforming to WordPress removes recurring licensing fees, reduces reliance on a single vendor ecosystem, and creates lower development costs over time thanks to the larger WordPress talent pool.
That gives enterprises more flexibility to invest in growth through content creation instead of platform overhead.
Modern, Flexible Editing Experiences
In Arc XP, PageBuilder and Composer are separate licensed modules. Editors often have to rely on developers just to build or tweak layouts, and even adding a new custom embed (Power Up) needs support.
With WordPress, especially using Gutenberg blocks, editorial teams can create, edit, and publish content much more easily without waiting on developers for routine publishing tasks. It also improves the overall editing experience for distributed editorial teams by giving publishers flexible editorial tools natively.
Gain Flexibility Beyond a Proprietary DXP
In Arc XP, content is stored in ANS (Arc Native Specification), a proprietary JSON-based structure that can make large-scale migrations and platform portability more complex. Unlike proprietary digital experience platforms tied to a single vendor, WordPress’s architecture gives enterprises complete ownership over infrastructure, tech stack, integrations, and future custom development.
Enterprise-Ready Performance and Security
With enterprise hosting, a global CDN, caching layers, and optional headless architecture, the WordPress platform can support millions of monthly users while delivering strong uptime, scalability, and performance comparable to the Arc XP platform.
Key Features of Our Arc XP to WordPress Migration Service
We migrate all your content, including Stories, Galleries, Videos, Authors, Collections, and metadata, transforming ANS JSON into WordPress formats like Custom Post Types, Gutenberg blocks, taxonomies, and ACF fields.
Everything is preserved, including your content structure and relationships. We also migrate related digital assets, syndication feeds, and content relationships so WordPress becomes the new source of truth for your publishing ecosystem.
We rebuild every Arc XP Power Up like live blogs, election widgets, data tables, timelines, scoreboards, and custom embeds as custom Gutenberg blocks using the WordPress Block API. Your editorial team retains the same publishing capabilities in a modern, open-source editor that is fully under your control.
WebSked is one of Arc XP’s most unique features, with no direct WordPress equivalent. Instead of a one-to-one replacement, we map your real editorial workflow, pitching, assignments, calendars, and distribution, and recreate it in WordPress using tools like Nelio Content, PublishPress, and custom workflows. This gives your team a planning and publishing setup that aligns with how they actually work.
We protect your URLs, meta titles, descriptions, canonicals, and schema during migration. Any changed URL gets a proper 301 redirect. We also check every migrated page and submit updated sitemaps to Google Search Console. While most CMS migrations take months to recover traffic, ours are built to avoid that drop.
Arc XP Photo Center images use protected CDN URLs, so all image links change after migration. We extract and re-host your entire image library, update every URL, and keep all metadata intact: captions, credits, alt text, and IPTC data. We move your Video Center content to a platform you choose, or we recommend and integrate it with WordPress for easy management and smooth playback.
Full Content Model & Structure Migration
We migrate all your content, including Stories, Galleries, Videos, Authors, Collections, and metadata, transforming ANS JSON into WordPress formats like Custom Post Types, Gutenberg blocks, taxonomies, and ACF fields.
Everything is preserved, including your content structure and relationships. We also migrate related digital assets, syndication feeds, and content relationships so WordPress becomes the new source of truth for your publishing ecosystem.
Page Layout & Component Rebuilds
We rebuild every Arc XP Power Up like live blogs, election widgets, data tables, timelines, scoreboards, and custom embeds as custom Gutenberg blocks using the WordPress Block API. Your editorial team retains the same publishing capabilities in a modern, open-source editor that is fully under your control.
WebSked Workflow Reconstruction
WebSked is one of Arc XP’s most unique features, with no direct WordPress equivalent. Instead of a one-to-one replacement, we map your real editorial workflow, pitching, assignments, calendars, and distribution, and recreate it in WordPress using tools like Nelio Content, PublishPress, and custom workflows. This gives your team a planning and publishing setup that aligns with how they actually work.
Complete SEO Preservation & Redirect Mapping
We protect your URLs, meta titles, descriptions, canonicals, and schema during migration. Any changed URL gets a proper 301 redirect. We also check every migrated page and submit updated sitemaps to Google Search Console. While most CMS migrations take months to recover traffic, ours are built to avoid that drop.
Photo Center and Video Center Migration
Arc XP Photo Center images use protected CDN URLs, so all image links change after migration. We extract and re-host your entire image library, update every URL, and keep all metadata intact: captions, credits, alt text, and IPTC data. We move your Video Center content to a platform you choose, or we recommend and integrate it with WordPress for easy management and smooth playback.
Our Arc XP to WordPress Migration Process
Content Discovery and Audit
We start with a detailed audit of your Arc XP setup content, media, Power Ups, subscriptions, integrations, SEO, and workflows so there are no surprises later. This discovery phase ensures a smooth, well-planned migration. We then map everything to WordPress equivalents: Stories → Posts / Custom Post Types, Collections → Taxonomies / curated blocks, Power Ups → Custom Gutenberg blocks, PageBuilder → Block theme templates, etc. Everything is rebuilt to match your existing setup, just more flexible and easier to manage.
WordPress Architecture and Theme Build
We build your WordPress setup from scratch: custom post types, taxonomies, ACF structures, Gutenberg blocks, and a flexible theme (block, headless, or hybrid). It’s not just a migration but a cleaner, faster system that gives your team more control. We also recreate ArcXP PageBuilder layouts as WordPress block templates, so editors can easily create and update pages without relying on developers.
SEO Preservation and Analytics Configuration
We migrate and preserve all key SEO elements: meta titles, descriptions, URLs, heading structure (H1–H6), redirects, internal links, schema markup, and XML sitemaps. Tools like Yoast SEO or Rank Math are properly configured, along with Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console, and resubmit sitemaps to support crawlability, indexing, and reporting continuity. We also preserve news-related discovery requirements where applicable.
Systems, Integrations, and Subscriber Migration
We rebuild and validate your Arc XP-connected systems in WordPress, including analytics, ad tech, paywalls, subscriptions, syndication, newsletters, and video integrations. We also preserve access rules, subscription entitlements, and newsroom permissions across your publishing stack. For subscription workflows, we can maintain parallel billing, manage user communication, and coordinate re-authentication to reduce revenue risk
Quality Assurance and Deployment
Before launch, your staging site goes through QA, automated validation of all content, checks on high-traffic pages, r, load testing, and full workflow testing with your team. We deploy running WordPress alongside Arc XP with near real-time sync until the final switch. Arc XP stays available as a fallback, and DNS is switched during a low-traffic window with full support. Every migration is backed by performance benchmarking, deployment planning, and rollback procedures.
Post-Migration Support and Team Training
After launch, we give your team hands-on training to confidently manage content. Our team also provides remote support during and after launch, till the website stabilizes (30 days), helping editorial teams quickly adapt to the new publishing environment. It includes support like monitoring, bug fixes, performance optimization, and editorial team assistance. Once after launch, we provide monthly retainers that give you a monthly set of dev hours to continuously improve your new platform.
Case studies
Why Choose WPoets for Your Arc XP to WordPress Migration?
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Specialists in Complex Migrations
We understand the technical challenges of Arc XP migrations that many WordPress agencies miss, like API limits, ANS-to-Gutenberg conversion, image extraction, subscriber migration, and rebuilding Power Ups. We work closely with your Arc XP team throughout migration planning, validation, and deployment to reduce operational risk and avoid disruption to publishing workflows.
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WordPress Solutions Built for Publishers
Your new WordPress site is built specifically for large editorial teams, not adapted from a basic marketing template.
We create custom content structures that match how your newsroom works, build Gutenberg blocks that recreate your Arc XP Power Ups, and set up workflows around your actual publishing process.
The result is a faster, more flexible site that gives your team far more control and independence than Arc XP.
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Enterprise Publishing Expertise
Whether your Arc XP setup includes multi-brand multisite architecture, complex subscription models, large video libraries, or custom IFX integrations, we securely migrate your content, media, subscriber data, and integrations, even for platforms with millions of articles and massive media archives.
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Your Long-Term Migration & Growth Partner
From content mapping and migration planning to launch and post-migration improvements, our team handles the entire process.
We continue supporting your website with performance monitoring, security updates, maintenance, and ongoing feature development so your WordPress site can scale & grow.
Your team focuses on publishing and storytelling; we take care of the technology behind it.
What Clients Say
View all testimonialsWPoets team is hands on and interacts continuously with clients in understanding the business. Now for over 3 years we have been working with their continuous improvement program and results are measurable. Visitor rates have increased consistently and business from online visitors has seen considerable improvement.
MD, GNH India
Hi WPoets team, Thanks a lot for your efforts to improve the mobile performance of our website. It has improved from 60 to 89 now It’s a significant jump and extremely important for providing a good experience to our website users and improving the overall SEO. Keep up the good work.
Lead: Demand Generation
Our new website is a game-changer. The migration of over 2,000 pages was handled flawlessly, and the final design is modern, fast, and intuitive. Updating content is now effortless—our marketing efforts are stronger than ever!
Frequently Asked Questions
What content and features can be migrated from Arc XP to WordPress?
We migrate every important part of your Arc XP platform, including stories, galleries, videos, images, metadata, author profiles, collections, sections, tags, redirects, subscriber accounts, page layouts, SEO data, and third-party integrations such as ad tech, analytics, paywalls, syndication, and newsletters.
Content is securely extracted through the Arc XP, converted from ANS JSON into WordPress structures such as Gutenberg blocks, Custom Post Types, taxonomies, and custom fields, and validated against the source data. Custom power-ups are recreated as custom Gutenberg blocks to preserve your editorial experience.
How long does an Arc XP to WordPress migration usually take?
The timeline mainly depends on how much content needs to be migrated and how complex the setup is.
Mid-sized publisher sites are usually completed within 12–16 weeks, while larger enterprise platforms with millions of articles and advanced systems may take around 16–24 weeks.
Smaller sites with simpler requirements can often be finished in 8–10 weeks. Once we complete the discovery phase, we’ll share a clear timeline tailored to your project.
Will the migration affect our SEO performance?
We preserve your existing SEO setup by migrating URL structures, metadata, redirects, schema markup, and canonical URLs.
We validate migrated URLs with automated scripts, implement all 301 redirects before launch, and submit updated XML sitemaps to Google Search Console on launch day.
While search rankings depend on external factors we cannot control, our process is designed to eliminate every controllable risk. We monitor Search Console for 60 days post-launch and address any crawl errors immediately.
Does WordPress have a tool like WebSked?
Not as a single integrated product; WebSked is genuinely Arc XP’s most unique feature. It WordPress can recreate WebSked’s core functionality using a combination of modern editorial workflow tools.
Tools like Nelio PublishPress can be configured to support editorial calendars and planning for approvals and task management, along with custom API integrations for multi-channel publishing.
A custom workflow solution according to your publishing requirements can be created. The result is a workflow that feels more flexible and easier to customize than WebSked. Most editorial teams adapt quickly and usually prefer the added control and flexibility after a few weeks of use.
Is WordPress powerful enough for publishers currently using Arc XP?
Yes. The WordPress platform powers some of the world’s largest publishers and media companies, including organizations running high-traffic newsrooms, subscription platforms, and global publishing operations.
Notable examples are The New York Post, TIME, Vox, Freethink, The New York Times Company, Rolling Stone, and many more. You can see a full list of publishing websites built on WordPress.
Enterprise solutions are specifically designed for large publishers that require scalability, security, and advanced editorial workflows. Many organizations move from Arc XP to WordPress to gain more flexibility, lower development costs, and stronger ownership over their publishing stack.
Can WordPress support enterprise publishing and compliance requirements?
Yes. With the right hosting architecture, security controls, and operational processes, WordPress can support enterprise-grade publishing environments.
WPoets brings enterprise-grade expertise to complex Arc XP migration projects. Whether you want to migrate years of content or handle millions of articles for your large media organization, our team has experience planning and executing large-scale enterprise content migrations involving complex editorial workflows, digital asset management systems, and custom Arc XP implementations.
We help publishers transition from Arc XP to WordPress while preserving content structure, SEO equity, editorial continuity, and business-critical integrations.
Our custom development process ensures your newsroom keeps the same publishing flexibility while gaining full ownership over future enhancements.
Our team can also recreate your existing design system and component library inside Gutenberg, helping editorial teams maintain brand consistency and compliance requirements across your WordPress platform.
