Comparison
Four ways to get a Lovable site into WordPress
Each is right for someone. The table is meant to help you pick, not to sell you the fourth column.
| Manual rebuild | Embed the React app | Headless WordPress | IQDesk converter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to a working site | 1–5 days | Hours | Days to weeks | Minutes, plus review |
| Editable in the block editor | Yes | No | Content only, no layout | Yes (core blocks) |
| Fidelity to the Lovable design | Depends on the builder | Exact | Exact (it is the React app) | High for content sites; measured per page |
| Interactive app features | Rebuilt with plugins or dropped | Kept | Kept | Detected and reported, not converted |
| Runs without Lovable / React hosting | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| SEO, analytics, plugins in one place | Yes | Split | Split | Yes |
| Repeatable after Lovable changes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (re-convert with saved decisions) |
| Cost | Developer time | Hosting for two stacks | Developer time + two stacks | Free; AI fixes from $20 |
When to pick which
- Manual rebuild when the Lovable site was only a sketch and the WordPress site will diverge from it anyway.
- Embed when the React app is the product and WordPress is just the marketing shell around it.
- Headless when you have a front-end team and want React in production with WordPress as the CMS.
- Converter when the site is content (marketing, company, store) and you want editors to own it in WordPress from now on.