Static site and headless CMS replacing legacy WordPress for a polymer-processing leader
Client Ontario-based industrial polymer-processing equipment manufacturer
Replaced a long-running legacy WordPress site with a static-rendered Hugo build backed by Strapi, eliminating the WordPress security exposure while putting day-to-day content control in the hands of the client's marketing team.
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Cut full-page load time by 71% versus the previous WordPress build
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Eliminated the vulnerability surface area of dozens of legacy WordPress plugins
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Marketing team now publishes updates in minutes through a headless CMS instead of opening tickets
Challenge
The client had been operating a WordPress site that had been stable but slow, costly to maintain, and exposed to the recurring plugin-vulnerability cycle that defines that platform. They wanted to keep marketing autonomy while removing the security and performance debt.
Approach
- Migrated content into a structured Strapi schema, normalizing inconsistent fields from the legacy site
- Built a static-rendered Hugo front-end deployed to a CDN with a sub-second time-to-first-byte
- Implemented role-based authoring workflows in Strapi so marketing controls publishing without developer involvement
- Decommissioned the WordPress server and migrated DNS with no perceptible cutover window
Result
- Page load times dropped from 4.2s average to 1.2s on the client's lab connection
- Marketing publishes 3–5 content updates per week without developer involvement
- Annual hosting and maintenance cost reduced by approximately 65%
Static-first architectures with structured content management map cleanly onto Government of Canada departmental sites and public-information portals that need to be fast, accessible, and easy for in-house teams to maintain.
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