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title: "Migration Guard"
description: "Snapshot before, compare after, and cut over only when the shadow test passes, whether you’re moving hosts, themes, domains or SEO plugins."
url: "https://tryindexplane.com/features/migration-guard/"
markdown: "https://tryindexplane.com/features/migration-guard.md"
---

# Migration Guard

Migration Guard

Snapshot before, compare after, and cut over only when the shadow test passes, whether you’re moving hosts, themes, domains or SEO plugins.

- [Download free](https://wordpress.org/plugins/indexplane/)
- [Take a pre-migration snapshot](https://tryindexplane.com/docs/migration/)

Plan: Pre-migration snapshot free; full guard in Pro.

## The migration looked fine. Google got something else.

> “The new theme dropped every product schema.”

> “Permalinks changed and 400 URLs had no redirect.”

> “We moved off our old SEO plugin and lost half the meta descriptions.”

## Migration Guard

### Vault snapshot before

One click records what every template serves today. The snapshot survives the migration itself.

[Read how it works](https://tryindexplane.com/docs/migration.md)

### Compare after, lost URLs ranked by clicks

See which URLs disappeared or changed, ordered by the Search Console clicks they used to get.

[Read how it works](https://tryindexplane.com/docs/migration.md)

### Shadow-test redirects

Imported redirects are tested in shadow, including tracking parameters, before they go live.

[Read how it works](https://tryindexplane.com/docs/migration.md)

### Gated cutover and rollback

Cutover needs a typed confirmation and a passing gate. Rollback stays available for the whole rollback window (Pro).

[Read how it works](https://tryindexplane.com/docs/migration.md)

## What you can check for yourself.

- Imports from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress and The SEO Framework.
- Migrates redirects from the Redirection plugin with a shadow test.
- Nothing changes on the live site until cutover.