Large-scale WooCommerce and Elementor migration into ACF blocks
Retail / WooCommerceElementor + WooCommerceUnited Kingdom

235 URLs: marketing pages + WooCommerce products

The largest crawl in our benchmark. Marketing templates mapped to ACF blocks; product URLs crawled for content consistency. Review was spread across two days; still far below manual quoting.

Total URLs

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~180 products

Manual quote

0h+

Never fully scoped

Review time

~8h

Two devs, two days

Credits

0

£185.65

Redirects

0+

Including categories

~112 hours saved vs manual estimate on this project

Tooling: £185.65 (235 credits)

The challenge

Rebuild on a native block theme while keeping WooCommerce product data accurate. Marketing pages were Elementor; products used a mix of short descriptions and ACF fields on singles. Manual migration at two minutes per URL minimum was unrealistic — 235 URLs implied weeks of labour.

Migration labour: manual vs AIRA

Manual copy-paste (quoted)120h
AIRA review + import~8h

Anonymous production project — figures reported by the delivery team

Block accuracy after review

~30% of blocks still needed manual images (often SVGs)

  • No edit 65%
  • Minor edits 25%
  • Major edits 10%

Approach

  1. 01

    Separate product templates

    Product archive and single templates rebuilt in theme. AIRA crawled product URLs for body content and SEO meta — not a substitute for Woo CSV where stock lived.

  2. 02

    Phased crawl

    Marketing paths first, then /product/ URLs in batches. Excluded cart, checkout, and account paths.

  3. 03

    Team review queue

    Two developers split low-confidence blocks. Product galleries needed manual image QA — 30% of blocks.

  4. 04

    Redirects at scale

    Category and product slug changes merged into one redirect map — 400+ 301 rules after dedupe.

format_quote
We stopped pretending two developers could hand-migrate 200 product pages. AIRA got us to reviewable drafts; we focused on templates and stock.

Lead developer, e-commerce agency (anonymous)

Lessons

  • lightbulbLarge projects need phased crawls and path filters — not one blind export.
  • lightbulbWooCommerce still needs template dev; AIRA handles content mapping into blocks.
  • lightbulbProduct image galleries remain the longest manual pass.

FAQ

Does AIRA replace WooCommerce product import?expand_more

Not for SKUs, stock, or attributes from CSV. This project used AIRA for rendered page content and SEO into blocks; structured product data still came from Woo tooling where needed.

Anonymised project — figures reported by delivery teams

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