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LUDICBook 20 min
LUDIC
LUDIC · KNOXVILLE, TN
Book 20 min

Your website, minus WordPress. One published price.

20 questions

Fair questions.

Every question here came from an owner, a forum thread, or a call. If yours isn't here, ask Nathan. He'll answer it and probably add it.

#01 / Topics

Five topics. Pick one.

Prices, ownership, the platform, after year one, and Lark. Each one jumps to its answers.

#02 / The offer

What you pay, and what it buys.

What exactly does $6,000 buy?

Your site, page for page, moved off WordPress onto Statamic. Up to 25 pages. Every URL kept or redirected, forms rebuilt and tested, the Statamic Pro license and the GitHub repo in your name, and year one of hosting and updates. Nothing bills again until month 13.

Can I pay monthly?

Yes. $500 a month for 12 months. Same total as paying once.

My site is more than 25 pages. Now what?

Nathan counts them and quotes one fixed number before you agree to anything. Never a range.

Will my site look different?

No. That's the point. Design is a separate line item ($4,500) for when you want a new look.

How long does it take?

The plan is 14 days from the call to the switch. Nathan is logging the hours on the first two conversions and publishing them on the How it works page, whatever they say.

What if it runs late?

You'll hear the day it slips, and why, from Nathan. The price doesn't change.

#03 / Your site, your stuff

Yours from day one.

Will I lose my Google rankings?

Every URL keeps its address or gets a permanent redirect. Titles, descriptions and headings move over as they are. Expect the normal few weeks of Google re-crawling; that's not a drop, it's Google noticing.

What happens to my domain and email?

Nothing. Your domain stays registered where it is, in your name. Email isn't touched. On switch day only the website's DNS record changes.

What if I want to leave?

Leave. The license, the code, the domain and the repo are in your name from day one. Cancel Keep and nothing goes offline. Any Laravel developer can pick it up.

Who owns the content?

You do. It lives in a standard database you own, plus the code in your GitHub repo. Exportable any time.

Can my nephew still edit it?

Yes, and it's harder for him to break. Layouts are locked, edits land as drafts with a preview, and nothing publishes until someone says so. If he knows Laravel, he can work on the code too.

#04 / The platform

What it runs on.

Is Statamic going to be around?

Fair worry. Statamic is small. It's also built on Laravel, the most-used PHP framework (64% of PHP developers, JetBrains 2025), and laravel.com itself runs on Statamic. If Statamic vanished tomorrow, your site would still be a Laravel app any Laravel developer can maintain. More on the Why Laravel page.

Why not just update my WordPress site?

You can, and if someone already does it well, keep them. The reason to leave is the treadmill: core, theme and every plugin on separate schedules. There were 11,334 new WordPress-ecosystem vulnerabilities in 2025, 91% of them in plugins. WordPress vs Statamic, side by side.

Do you use plugins?

Not the WordPress kind. Forms and SEO fields are built into the kit. The kit includes two small Statamic add-ons (a sitemap and a redirect manager), chosen once, tested together, and updated by Nathan as one unit. You never install or renew anything.

#05 / After year one

After year one.

What's Keep?

From month 13: $120/mo or $1,200 a year for hosting, Statamic updates, backups, monitoring, and changes on one rule. Ask for anything. If it's an afternoon or less, it's included. If it's a day or more, Nathan tells you before he starts and quotes it.

Do I have to buy Keep?

No. Take the repo and host it anywhere. Keep exists because most owners don't want to.

Do you do SEO, ads or social media?

No. Ludic moves sites and looks after them. Your SEO basics carry over and the site gets faster, but Ludic doesn't run campaigns.

#06 / Lark

About Lark.

How did Lark get my email?

From public business sources: Google business listings, state license boards, trade association directories, and a business data provider that lists owners of companies your size.

Is Lark a person?

No. Lark is a scanner, and it says so in the first line of every email. Nathan reads every email before it sends. Why Lark says so.

How do I make it stop?

Reply “no,” or use the stop page. Your address and domain are off the list within 15 minutes, for good.

Twenty minutes. A price and a date.

Nathan answers. Lark is the scanner. Bring your URL and leave with the price, the date and what moves.

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