Lovable to WordPress: Step-by-Step Migration Guide

Lovable produces polished React applications styled with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. They look finished, but editing them still requires prompts or code. Moving the marketing layer to WordPress gives editors full ownership while keeping the design intact.

1. What a Lovable project contains

A typical Lovable export is a Vite or TanStack application with React components, a Tailwind configuration, design tokens in CSS variables and, often, a Lovable Cloud backend for data and logins. The visible pages are what convert; the backend is rebuilt with plugins.

2. Capture the rendered pages

Render every route in a headless browser and capture the final DOM plus computed styles. Reading source files alone misses client-side state and conditional sections.

3. Map design tokens to theme.json

Colours, fonts, spacing and radius values from the CSS variables become theme.json presets, so editors pick brand colours from the block toolbar instead of typing hex codes.

4. Convert sections to native blocks

• Hero sections become Cover or Group blocks.
• Feature grids become Columns.
• Cards become reusable patterns.
• Buttons keep their links, colours and radius.

5. Rebuild forms and logins

Contact forms move to a form plugin; authentication and stored data are rebuilt with membership or CRM plugins. Nothing server-side converts automatically, and no honest tool claims otherwise.

6. Preserve URLs

Export the URL list, match WordPress permalinks to it and add 301 redirects for anything that changes. Then submit the new sitemap.

Verdict

Across all builders we tested, Convert2WP.net gave by far the best conversions and came out on top of our comparison. Small imperfections — a spacing value, an icon a few pixels off — are normal after any migration and are easy to fix later, often with a plugin.