About Tom Bakker
Built by someone who did it by hand first.
StaticToWP automates what used to take 8 to 40 hours per project. Tom built it after years of manually converting Webflow exports, AI-generated designs, and static HTML templates into WordPress themes.
400+
themes converted
14
in-depth guides published
8
platforms supported
<60s
average conversion time
Tom Bakker
Tom Bakker
Founder, StaticToWP · Web developer
Tom has spent the last several years doing WordPress theme development for agencies and direct clients. The bulk of that work was converting designs into working WordPress themes — first from Photoshop and Sketch, then Figma, then Webflow, then AI tools like Lovable, v0, and Bolt.
He automated the process because he kept solving the same problems: Tailwind JIT styles missing post-export, Framer Motion keyframes not surviving a static capture, WordPress default styles overriding everything, React remount scripts wiping the WordPress DOM. StaticToWP handles all of these correctly.
Questions about the tool or a specific conversion? hi@statictowp.com
Technical expertise
The knowledge behind StaticToWP comes from years of production WordPress work. Here is what Tom knows in depth.
WordPress theme architecture
Template hierarchy, wp_enqueue_scripts, wp_head/footer hooks, functions.php, theme.json, block editor compatibility.
CSS computed styles
Reading getComputedStyle() output vs source stylesheets. Why JIT-compiled Tailwind, injected Framer Motion keyframes, and Webflow IX2 only exist post-render.
Headless browser rendering
Puppeteer and Playwright for full-page capture. Waiting for fonts, animations, and lazy-loaded assets before snapshot.
Advanced Custom Fields
Programmatic field group generation from DOM content. ACF JSON load paths. Syncing fields across WordPress environments.
AI design tool output
v0 (Next.js + shadcn/ui + Tailwind), Lovable (React + Supabase + Framer Motion), Bolt (Vite + React), Framer (proprietary React + CSS variables). Each has different capture challenges.
Platform migration SEO
Permalink matching, 301 redirect strategy, meta tag transfer, sitemap handoff. Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify each have different URL structures.
What breaks in every conversion
These are the six problems that come up in nearly every static-to-WordPress project. StaticToWP handles them all.
Tailwind JIT classes
They don't exist in any CSS file. They're generated at build time and injected into a <style> tag. Source-based tools miss them entirely. Computed capture gets them all.
Framer Motion animations
Framer Motion writes CSS keyframes into <style> tags at runtime. By the time the browser paints, they're in the DOM. A headless renderer captures them as static CSS.
Webflow IX2 interactions
Webflow's interaction engine writes inline styles during execution. The only reliable capture is post-JavaScript-execution — not Webflow's own HTML export.
WordPress default styles
WordPress loads its own block stylesheet that sets typography on naked elements: p, h1, h2, ul. Without theme.json disabling them, they override everything you captured.
React remount scripts
React apps ship an SSR noscript block and a remount script. In WordPress, the remount fires and wipes the PHP-generated header and footer. This needs to be stripped.
External CDN dependencies
Scripts from unpkg, jsDelivr, or a custom CDN create runtime dependencies. Bundle them locally inside assets/js/ or the theme breaks the day that CDN changes its URLs.
How StaticToWP works
Paste a URL
Drop in any live URL. Webflow, Lovable, v0, Bolt, Framer, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, plain HTML. If a browser can load it, it converts.
A real browser renders the page
A headless browser loads the URL, executes all JavaScript, waits for fonts and animations, then captures computed styles. Not source CSS. What the browser actually rendered.
Download your WordPress theme zip
You get a complete installable theme: front-page.php, functions.php, theme.json, all CSS inlined, scripts bundled locally, ACF field groups, block patterns, and Elementor template. Upload to WordPress and activate.
From the blog
Tom writes in depth about every aspect of static-to-WordPress conversion. These are the core guides.
HTML to WordPress Theme: The Complete 2026 Guide
9 min read
Webflow to WordPress: How to Migrate Without Losing a Single CSS Rule
8 min read
The AI Design to WordPress Gap: Why Vibe-Coded Sites Break in Production
7 min read
WordPress Theme Generator in 2026: 6 Tools Compared Honestly
10 min read
Convert Static Site to WordPress: 5 Methods Ranked by Speed, Fidelity & Cost
8 min read
v0, Lovable & Bolt to WordPress: The Shortcut That Takes 60 Seconds
6 min read
Skip the manual work
Paste a URL. Get a WordPress theme.
Any static site, Webflow export, or AI-generated design. Converted to a production-ready WordPress theme in under a minute. Every CSS rule, animation, and font intact.
Try it freeFree to convert · $499 to download