What Publish gives you
Clicking Publish on Lovable makes a project publicly accessible at the URL yourapp.lovable.app, over a secure connection, through Lovable’s publishing services. This is the same for all plans, but projects published under the free plan include a badge that says “Edit with Lovable” and connecting a custom domain requires an upgraded plan. Since May 2026, search engines get real HTML: new projects are server-rendered and older ones are pre-rendered for verified crawlers. For a prototype, a demo or an app you are still shaping, that is a complete answer.
It quickly loses its value the day it gets printed on the company’s business cards.
What a business site needs that a prototype does not
- Marketing changes a headline. Sales adds a case study. Someone fixes a typo. In Lovable, whenever someone makes a change, that is a prompt that takes credits, and a check that nothing else moved.
- Contact forms that work. Lovable’s contact form requires its own backend (Lovable Cloud or Supabase). Elsewhere, you need a form to email you the submission, and maybe also post the submission to Slack or other chat apps. Without a database to mind.
- You can add many kinds of content to a site, whether it’s blog posts, news articles, team members, case studies, or others. An app builder has no place to add these content except code or a database you prompted a template for.
- A domain and hosting that are transferable. The lovable.app address and the hosting are Lovable’s. The uptime of the site should not rely on the subscription of a single individual.
- The repeatable SEO checks. Titles and descriptions for each page. A sitemap. URL redirects. Structured data. The Lovable SEO review will show things to correct; putting them right is more prompts.
- ‘Analytics and Consent’ is made up of a tag manager, a cookie banner that fully controls tags, and the necessary legal pages for your region.
These are not deficiencies of Lovable. They describe the difference between an app builder and a publishing system, and the prototype has already performed the app builder’s strength of determining the site’s layout.
The three ways to make it real
| Stay on Lovable | Export and host it yourself | Rebuild it as WordPress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you do | Upgrade for your domain; keep prompting | Sync to GitHub, deploy to Vercel or Netlify, recreate the backend and secrets | Keep the design; rebuild it as a block theme; move the content into pages |
| Who edits it after | You, with credits | A developer, in React | Anyone on the team, in the page editor |
| Forms | Lovable Cloud or Supabase | You rebuild or keep paying for the backend | A form plugin: email, entries, Slack, CRM |
| Search rendering | Handled on Lovable’s hosting | Yours to set up (older projects lose the pre-rendering) | Server-rendered on any host |
| Time | Today | Days, plus ongoing developer time | Live in 48 hours with MightyMigrate |
| Cost | From $25 a month plus credits | Hosting plus developer time | $499 once; hosting optional from $69 a month |
The first column is appropriate for an app in continuous development. The second is for a development team. The last is for a website with an already designed front-end, for which the goal for the next decade will be posting, editing, and publishing content and/or data collection via forms.
How the rebuild works
- Enter your published Lovable URL. The scanner reads the site, counts the pages, measures it with Google PageSpeed and quotes a fixed price: $499 for up to 15 pages. Each page after that is an additional $25.
- We rebuild your design pixel for pixel as a lean WordPress block theme. Next, we move your content to appropriately structured pages, connect your forms to Slack and email, and add analytics to your site. Lastly, we add the consent management system to your site.
- Approve. You get a staging link. Your Lovable site stays up the whole time, and no changes are made to it unless you decide to publish.
- Point your DNS to the new server. We set up redirects if your Lovable site was on that domain. If you’re on our managed hosting plan, you get a 93+ Performance score on desktop, or your hosting is free until we hit it.
Start with the scan
Free and under a minute. The scan ends with a fixed price. If a site fits the $499 tier, the scan will show that. If it is a store or something larger, the scan says that instead.
Questions people ask
Can I turn a Lovable site into a WordPress site?
Yes, by restructuring the design as a WordPress theme and placing the content in pages. The code will not be transferred (a Lovable project is a React application; WordPress will not be rendering React pages). The design will be transferred. Converter tools do a rough first pass; an in-depth guide on how to do it properly is available here.
Where are Lovable websites hosted?
On Lovable’s own servers at lovable.app or with a custom domain through one of their paid plans. Lovable’s documentation only shows how to deploy their apps on their servers. While you can export your code to other services, the older projects depend on Lovable’s servers for pre-rendering. This means an older project deployed elsewhere is client-rendered again for search engines.
Can I keep my Lovable app and still have a WordPress site?
Yes, and many teams do this: the live product resides on Lovable and the public site resides on WordPress, and they link to each other. The scan and the rebuild cover the website part.
What does it cost to move a Lovable site to WordPress?
With MightyMigrate, the rebuild of a site of up to 15 pages costs $499, and $25 per page beyond that. Payment is by a secure link after the scan, and nothing is charged until you pay it. Alternatively, you can opt for managed hosting at $69 a month, which carries the performance guarantee.
Checked on 28 September 2026 against Lovable’s Publish, FAQ and SEO and AI search documentation.