WordPress hosting for sites migrating from Medium.
Medium's export is a folder of HTML files. There are no categories, no real media library, and every image in those files still points at Medium's servers.
An export that is less than it looks.
The zip contains your writing. It does not contain the structure, the images or the relationships that make it a website.
Posts arrive without structure
The export is HTML per story with no categories, tags or hierarchy. Taxonomy is a decision made during the import rather than something recovered from it.
Images still live on Medium
Every image reference in the export points at Medium's CDN. Imported as-is, your site depends on a platform you left and breaks the day those URLs change.
Canonicals and custom domains
If you used a custom domain or cross-posted, canonical tags may still credit Medium. Those are resolved so the new site is the version search engines rank.
Member-only stories need a decision
Paywalled posts have no equivalent on import. Whether they become public, gated or member-only content is chosen before rather than discovered after.
Faster than the platform you left
Pages serve from 14 edge regions with full-page caching, which for a text-heavy publication is a straightforward improvement over a shared platform.
Take the writing, rebuild the site.
This migration is quick on content and slow on decisions. Structure, images and canonicals all need answers the export does not provide.
- Taxonomy designed before import
- Images downloaded and references rewritten
- Canonical tags pointed at the new site
- Member-only stories given a destination
A publication that is finally yours.
The speed gain is real but secondary. The point of the move is that the archive, the images and the audience relationship stop belonging to somebody else.
What we change moving from Medium
These differ from a standard migration on the same plan, and each one exists because the export is a set of documents rather than a site.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Taxonomy design | Categories and tags defined before import rather than derived from the export | Medium organises by publication and by tag in a way that does not survive the export at all, so an import without a structure decision produces several hundred uncategorised posts and no way to browse them. |
| Image handling | Every asset downloaded from Medium's CDN and references rewritten to the local library | The exported HTML references images by their Medium URLs, so a site that looks complete on launch day is quietly depending on the platform it just left to keep serving its pictures. |
| Canonical resolution | Canonical tags repointed to the new domain and old story URLs redirected | Cross-posted and custom-domain stories often carry canonicals crediting Medium, which tells search engines to keep ranking the copy you no longer control. |
| Member-only content | Paywalled stories assigned a destination before import — public, gated or membership | Nothing in the export marks what was behind Medium's paywall in a way WordPress understands, so without a decision the entire paid archive silently becomes free on launch. |
| Feed continuity | RSS output configured to match the shape subscribers already receive | Readers who subscribed by feed rather than by email are the easiest audience to lose in this move, because nothing notifies them and a changed feed simply stops delivering. |
Simple, transparent pricing.
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
- 1 WordPress site
- 10 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Support tickets
- 5 WordPress sites
- 50 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Priority support tickets
- 20 WordPress sites
- 200 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Dedicated support
Questions, answered.
What does Medium's export actually contain?
Why do my images break after importing?
Will I lose my search rankings?
What happens to member-only stories?
Can I keep my custom domain?
Move off Medium and actually own the archive.
Free migration, images pulled down properly, and canonicals that credit you.