Sitecore XP to Sanity Migration
We map your Sitecore templates, renderings, and content tree directly onto Sanity schemas, a component page builder, and clean routes. Your editors keep their mental model. Your budget keeps the difference.
Why Leave Sitecore XP Now?
The economics of standing still changed in 2026. Since June 1, Sitecore Extended Support no longer includes security updates or production incident support without a separate paid arrangement. XP 10.0 and 10.1 reach the end of Extended Support on December 31, 2026, after which security patches are unavailable at any price. Only 10.4 remains in mainstream support, and that window closes at the end of 2027.
Meanwhile, the infrastructure underneath keeps aging: oversized VMs, SQL Server licensing, Solr clusters, and publish queues that turn every content change into a wait. Independent evaluations such as the DXP Scorecard note that Sitecore's new investment flows to SitecoreAI, leaving XP on a defined sunset path. For a content-driven site, that entire estate can be replaced by Sanity and a static front end, and the migration takes days, not quarters.
What Changes When You Move
Page Speed Measured in Milliseconds
Pages XP assembled in seconds on a warm cache are served as static HTML from a global CDN edge, improving Core Web Vitals, SEO, and conversion.
Hosting and Licensing Near Zero
Retire the CM, CD, SQL Server, and Solr estate. A content-driven site runs on Sanity's free or per-seat plans with static hosting for tens of dollars a month, sometimes nothing.
Authoring Your Editors Will Love
Real-time collaborative editing, instant publishing, full revision history, and click-to-edit visual editing in place of a slow Experience Editor.
Stability Without the Patch Cycle
No VMs to nurse, no publish queues, no index rebuilds. Fewer moving parts means fewer incidents and no more paying extra just to stay secure.
How We Map Sitecore XP to Sanity
1. Template & Rendering Audit
We inventory your templates, the renderings actually used in production, their data sources, and your content tree. A typical XP site runs on fewer components than anyone remembers, which is exactly why the timeline is short.
2. Templates Become Schemas
Every Sitecore field type has a direct Sanity equivalent: Single-Line Text to string, Rich Text to Portable Text, Droplinks to references, Treelists to reference arrays. The translation is deterministic, so your content model arrives intact.
3. Renderings Become a Page Builder
Layouts, placeholders, and data sources become typed sections in a visual page builder. Editors compose pages from the same components they know today, with the content inline instead of scattered through a Data folder.
4. The Content Tree Becomes Routes
Path-based slugs preserve your URL structure exactly, and we shape Sanity Studio navigation to mirror the tree your editors already know. Familiarity on day one is what makes adoption effortless.
5. Automated Extraction & Import
We serialize your items to JSON, convert rich text to Portable Text, rewrite internal links from GUIDs to true references, re-upload media assets, and import everything in a single validated pass against the source system.
6. Launch, Redirects & Enablement
We manage go-live with full redirect mapping to protect your search rankings, train your editors on the new Studio, and stay engaged through the cutover period until your team is fully confident.
Our Services
Templates & Content Items
Every template becomes a Sanity schema and every item becomes a document, with field-level fidelity throughout.
Renderings & Data Sources
Components rebuilt as page builder sections, with data source content moved inline where editors can see it.
Content Tree & URL Structure
Full item paths preserved as slugs, with 301 redirect mapping for anything that changes.
Media Library
Binaries re-uploaded through Sanity's asset pipeline with image and file references rewritten automatically.
Rich Text & Internal Links
HTML converted to structured Portable Text, with GUID-based internal links resolved to true document references.
SEO & Metadata
Titles, descriptions, and structured data carried over so your rankings survive the move intact.
Is Your Site a Fit for a Days-Scale Migration?
This migration path is built for content-driven Sitecore XP sites: pages, articles, listings, search, and forms. If that describes your implementation, the timeline is measured in days and the scope is fixed before we start. Most XP sites fall into this category, running a very expensive engine under what is fundamentally a content site.
If your implementation leans heavily on xDB personalization, Marketing Automation, EXM, or commerce, the path is longer, and we will tell you exactly how much longer. One scoping conversation is usually enough to know which side of that line you are on, and we will give you an honest answer either way.
Ready to leave Sitecore XP?
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