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Lovable to WordPress and Elementor in Three Days

A site built in Lovable needed to become a WordPress site the owner could actually edit, extend and host themselves — rebuilt in Elementor, forms and all, in three days.

Australian-based team Senior developers only Fixed quote before we start
3 days
From brief to live
5–6
Pages rebuilt in Elementor
0
Template conflicts
Client
Lovable-built site (anonymised)
Industry
Small business
Scope
AI-builder migration to WordPress
Lovable WordPress Elementor

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The challenge

  • Lovable output is not WordPress. There is no export that becomes a theme — the pages have to be rebuilt, not imported.
  • The existing forms had to keep working, which meant matching their behaviour against the site's forms plugin rather than dropping in something generic.
  • New Elementor templates had to sit alongside pages that already existed without overriding them — template conflicts in Elementor are silent and only show up on the wrong page.
  • Navigation had to work across both the new pages and the ones already there, not just within the converted set.
  • Sliders and the design elements around them had to be reproduced closely enough that the owner recognised their own site — and had to hold up at every screen size, not just the one they were designed on.
  • Three days, with no scope for a long discovery phase.

What we did

  • Rebuilt each page in Elementor rather than attempting to convert the Lovable output — faster and cleaner than fighting markup that was never meant to be a theme.
  • Matched the original forms using the site's existing forms plugin, so submissions kept behaving the way the owner expected.
  • Built the Elementor templates with their display conditions scoped deliberately, then checked every existing page to confirm nothing had been silently re-templated.
  • Rebuilt the navigation across the whole site so the converted pages and the existing ones behaved as one site.
  • Matched the sliders and design elements to the original, then tested them across breakpoints — an AI builder produces a layout that looks right at one width, and reproducing it faithfully means making it work at all of them.
  • Delivered a written report covering what was rebuilt, how the templates are scoped, and what to watch when adding pages later.

The outcome

  • Site live on WordPress in three days, editable in Elementor by the owner.
  • Forms preserved and working on the site's own plugin.
  • No template conflicts with existing pages.
  • Sliders and design elements reproduced and responsive across devices.
  • Hosting and content now owned outright rather than tied to a builder platform.

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02

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03

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