Complete guide to migrating your Makeswift website to VuePress. Leave Makeswift's next.js only behind and get excellent default theme for documentation sites. Free migration tool included.
You can migrate from Makeswift to VuePress for free using LeaveWP. Enter your site URL, choose VuePress as the destination, and download your content — posts, pages, and media — in minutes. No API keys, passwords, or CLI tools required. Difficulty: Easy. Estimated time: 10-20 minutes.
Visual builder for Next.js sites. Next.js teams needing visual editing for marketing pages, but these limitations push teams toward modern alternatives.
Next.js only — no support for other frameworks
This is the most common reason teams migrate away from Makeswift. VuePress eliminates this issue entirely.
Very new platform with a small user base
With VuePress, excellent default theme for documentation sites.
Limited documentation and community resources
Modern architectures like VuePress are designed to avoid this from the ground up.
Feature set is still maturing compared to established tools
After migrating, you'll no longer need to worry about this — VuePress takes a fundamentally different approach.
Vue-powered SSG optimized for technical documentation. Built with JavaScript (Vue.js), it's technical documentation sites in the vue.js ecosystem.
Excellent default theme for documentation sites
Vue components work in Markdown files
Built-in search, sidebar navigation, and versioning
Optimized for developer documentation out of the box
VuePress is open-source and free to use. You own your code and data with no vendor lock-in. Deploy to any host that supports JavaScript, or use managed platforms like Vercel and Netlify for zero-config deployments.
Side-by-side comparison based on real platform characteristics
| Metric | Makeswift | VuePress |
|---|---|---|
| Ease of Use | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 |
| Performance | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 |
| Flexibility | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Cost | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Scalability | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Ecosystem | ⭐ 1/5 | ⭐⭐ 2/5 |
| Language | React / Next.js | JavaScript (Vue.js) |
| Pricing | Free / paid plans | Free (open-source) |
| Open Source | No | Yes |
Ratings are based on publicly available data, documentation, and community consensus as of 2026. Individual experience may vary.
A detailed breakdown of how your Makeswift content maps to VuePress
What may need manual attention
Visual layouts and custom animations built in Makeswift's editor will need to be recreated in VuePress. The content and text transfers, but the visual design is platform-specific.
Migrate your content in three simple steps
Enter your Makeswift site URL — LeaveWP connects automatically.
Select VuePress as destination and choose content options.
Download your migrated content or preview it in your browser.
Migrating from Makeswift to VuePress makes the most sense if you're experiencing next.js only — no support for other frameworks or outgrowing Makeswift's architecture. VuePress is best for technical documentation sites in the vue.js ecosystem.
You should migrate if: your Makeswift site is slow, your hosting costs are climbing, you need developer flexibility, or you want to adopt a modern JAMstack architecture.
You might want to stay if: your Makeswift site benefits from native next.js integration — edits your actual next.js pages and you don't have JavaScript developers on your team. Makeswift is genuinely easy to use, and that simplicity has value.
The migration itself is straightforward with LeaveWP — enter your Makeswift URL, select VuePress, and download your content. The more important question is whether VuePress's architecture fits your team's skills and your project's long-term needs.
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