Funeral home websites
Modern memorial websites, built with care.
Custom funeral home websites with obituary publishing, condolence books, photo galleries, and careful migration of existing obituary archives.
A better alternative to outdated or corporate memorial platforms
Many funeral homes are caught between two bad options. Some websites look as though they have not been modernized in decades. Others are run through large memorial platforms that feel impersonal, advertising-driven, and overly commercial.
Families notice. Increasingly, a funeral home's online obituary pages are part of how people judge the care, professionalism, and dignity of the business itself.
We build custom funeral home websites that avoid that tradeoff. Your website can be modern, mobile friendly, accessible, easy to update, and still deeply respectful of the people being remembered.
Obituary archive migration
One of the biggest reasons funeral homes hesitate to modernize is the obituary archive. Existing obituaries are not disposable content. They are family history, community memory, search traffic, and often the only public record many people return to when remembering someone they loved.
We treat obituary archive migration as a core part of the project, not an afterthought. Every client receives the same careful standard. Migration cost is based on archive size, source-system complexity, media volume, and verification requirements.
- Names and dates
- Obituary text
- Featured photos
- Photo galleries
- Photo captions where available
- Service information
- Donation links
- Condolence comments where available
- Old URL redirects
- Search engine preservation
What your new website can include
Every site is customized for the funeral home, but the foundation is designed specifically for memorial content and obituary publishing.
Obituary and memorial pages
Elegant memorial pages with names, dates, obituary text, service details, donations, flowers, music, and family photographs.
Photo galleries and captions
Families can share images with captions, allowing the photo gallery to become part of the story instead of a simple image dump.
Book of Condolences
Visitors can leave memories and messages of support, with moderation tools to help staff keep the page appropriate.
Service and gathering details
Service locations, times, cemetery information, map links, special notes, and related details can be clearly presented.
Donation and flower links
Memorial pages can include favourite causes, donation links, and send-flowers links where appropriate.
Reliable managed care
Hosting, updates, backups, security, email delivery, accessibility reviews, and ongoing support are handled for you.
How the project works
Website and archive assessment
We review your current website, obituary archive, content, photos, comments, forms, redirects, and technical requirements.
Custom website build
Your new website is built on a proven WordPress foundation and customized for your funeral home, your services, and your community.
Obituary migration and verification
Existing obituaries are migrated, normalized, checked, and mapped to the new memorial system. Old URLs can be redirected to preserve access and search visibility.
Launch and ongoing service
After launch, we continue to provide updates, backups, security, support, and careful maintenance through an annual managed service agreement.
Built for standalone ownership, not one-size-fits-all software
Each funeral home website is its own standalone WordPress site. That means your design, content, settings, and obituary archive are not tangled together with anyone else's website.
The shared foundation lets us work efficiently and improve the system over time. The standalone setup lets your site remain flexible, unique, and appropriate for your funeral home.
You can also read our original post about funeral home and memorial service websites, which explains why we believe this work deserves more care than ordinary business web design.
Request a funeral home website assessment
If your funeral home is considering a new website, the first step is a review of your current site and obituary archive. We will look at what needs to be preserved, what can be improved, and what level of migration work is required.
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