🔍 Understand how the two platforms work
Website Studio and WordPress are separate website systems. Your existing WordPress site remains managed in WordPress, while a Website Studio project is managed from Search Atlas.
Before making changes, decide whether you want to improve the current WordPress site or use Website Studio for a new or redesigned site. This choice affects your domain, URLs, navigation, analytics, and SEO settings.
🧭 Choose the right integration approach
- Improve the existing WordPress site: Use Website Studio as a planning and design reference, then recreate approved changes in WordPress.
- Move to Website Studio: Use the Studio project as the primary site and configure your domain there when the project is ready.
- Use both platforms: Keep WordPress as the main site and use Website Studio only for a separate, clearly defined area. Confirm that the URL structure is supported before publishing.
Do not publish the same page, category, or folder path in both systems. Duplicate paths can cause conflicts, unexpected redirects, or the wrong page to load.
📋 Review your current WordPress site
Before incorporating a Website Studio project, create a short inventory of your current site:
- List important pages, blog posts, categories, and landing pages.
- Record the URLs that receive traffic or backlinks.
- Identify pages that rank in search results or generate leads.
- Note your navigation, forms, tracking tools, redirects, and SEO settings.
- Back up WordPress before changing templates, URLs, or plugins.
This inventory helps you preserve valuable content and avoid replacing important pages accidentally.
🎨 Use Website Studio to improve the site
When using Website Studio as a design or content reference, compare each proposed page with its WordPress equivalent. Check the page purpose, heading structure, calls to action, internal links, images, and mobile layout.
Transfer changes in small groups rather than replacing the entire site at once. After each update, check the live page, forms, menus, page speed, tracking, and search visibility.
🌐 Prepare a Website Studio project for publishing
Open Website Studio from the left sidebar in Search Atlas. Review the project before connecting or using a custom domain.
- Confirm that the correct pages and navigation are present.
- Check page titles, descriptions, headings, images, and links.
- Review mobile and desktop layouts.
- Confirm that important WordPress URLs will not be reused by Studio pages.
- Plan redirects for any URLs that must change.
If Website Studio becomes the primary site, plan the domain transition carefully. Test the project before directing visitors to it, and keep a record of the old WordPress URLs and their replacements.
⚠️ Avoid common URL and content problems
- Do not create a Studio page with the same path as a WordPress category, post, or page.
- Do not place two different versions of the homepage at the same domain and path.
- Do not delete WordPress pages until replacement pages and redirects are tested.
- Do not copy content without deciding which version should be indexed.
- Do not change many URL structures at once without monitoring traffic and search performance.
✅ Test after making changes
- Open the homepage and key landing pages in a private browser window.
- Test menus, buttons, forms, images, and internal links.
- Check that old important URLs redirect to the correct new pages.
- Confirm that no page shows a 404, redirect loop, or unexpected WordPress category.
- Review analytics, search performance, and rankings after publishing.
Keep WordPress and Website Studio content ownership clear for everyone working on the site. A simple page map showing the platform responsible for each URL can prevent future conflicts.
💬 Get help with your setup
If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.