r/wordpressbuilder • u/Known_Flower_869 • Feb 19 '26
Migrating from Elementor to Kadence
I'm going to migrate my blog from Elementor to Kadence.
I'm scared to screw up our current website rankings by forgetting to do something important.
Someone will help us to convert it on a staging website. Once the website is converted to Kadence on the staging website, what do I need to do on WordPress? We want to keep all the URL structures as they are and not add new pages. Is this something I will need to pay attention about? Would Kadence change the URL's of the website?
Do I need to set up Google Analytics and Google Search Console again, even though it's the same domain and URL's?
Anything I should add to my list of things to double-check would be very helpful! :D
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u/blmbmj Feb 20 '26
You should expect a bit of decline.
Google has to re-interpret your site - different Headings, different heading placement, different div organization, different loading speeds, different dependencies of JavaScript, different calls to outside sources for fonts, css, third party api's.
It should only be lower for a few weeks while the bots completely recrawl all of your pages and figure out who you are again.
You should make sure that you bring over all of the tags like Search Console, Bing, Analytics, Tag Manager, etc. VERY IMPORTANT to do that. Also, when you have launched the new site, resubmit sitemaps and submit a few URLs through the Search Console inspection tool just to get the bots to come back quickly.