Drupal to WP Migration: What Makes Success Story?
We offer migration across different web platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Shopify and other less popular CMS systems. But today let’s speak about Drupal to WordPress migration.
What are the drawbacks and possible issues and how to mitigate negative impact to make smooth and stressless Drupal to WordPress migration?
Faster Migrations
Where other companies take moths to get the Drupal migration to another system completed, we stick to deadlines and help companies to switch over within a set time-frame.
Also, after the content transfer completes and all the migration is done, we provide continuous support for upgrades and maintenance. Ket steps to make Drupal to WP migration a success story:
- Faster Migrations
- Retain All Content
- Move SEO data
- Permalink Redirection
- Migrate Custom Fields
- Transparent Development
- Content Optimization
- User Training
Check points to Consider Before and After Drupal to WordPress Migration
Before Migration Drupal to WP we would recommend to remember the following steps:
- Create a scope of features you have now and would like to have on a WordPress website (including but not limited the 3d party integrations, API connections etc).
- Create a new website architecture and DB structure to coordinate smoothy migration.
- Design the roadmap for content migrations (texts, images, all the unique pages, user’s, purchases and activities history database)
- Remember about URL and SEO fields, as well as 404 pages and 301 redirect in order to avoid traffic and ranking dropdown after migration.
- Check the PHP versions the current Drupal and the WordPress version supported and compare with your hosting PHP versions. A lot of data and functionality can be missed only because of PHP versions gap.
- Estimate customization level of your features and DB to make right decision on what to go ahead with: Drupal to WP migration plugin or manual custom migration.
- Backup Drupal website and DB.
After Drupal to WordPress Migration, please go ahead with the following steps:
- Test and QA all the content and features.
- Crete list of gaps and improvements needed with a meticulous description on how they should work.
- Check all the features connected to SEO: URLs, SEO fields migration, images names, 301 redirects and 404 page
Moving Away from Drupal Made Easy
We migrate it all, from post data to images, posts, products, metadata, tags, featured images, attachments, custom fields, Menu Items, SEO meta, comments, users etc, we do it all and we migrate it completely. No matter how simple or complex your Drupal installation is, our migration specialists will be on top of it to get the migration done smoothly.
Also, we take care of any redirects that are required after migration to keep old links working and redirecting to correct permalinks on the wordpress system.
@ IDL, we have made migrations straightforward and a stress-less task.
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Drupal to WordPress Migration
To migrate blog posts from Drupal you can use tools like tools like All-in-One WP Migration or WP Migrate DB. However this will speed up the migration processes as the DB structure can be different you need to check all before launch (images, texts, headlines, fonts etc).
Drupal migration services from a professional web development agency offer deep expertise and enhanced services. It makes sense for customized Drupal to WP migrations, as customizing fields and parts of the regular code won’t be converted well, but with potential issues. At the same time, plugins and other automated tools can assist in migration for simple websites. The biggest trap, considering between professional migration services and plugins is to estimate and calculate upcoming troubleshooting and sort out all issues that arise after migration.
Key alternatives for Drupal in 2024 are:
- WordPress (for blogs, news websites, and e-commerce with WooCommerce plugin);
- Joomla for customized big projects with a lot of customized features and requirement for future scaling and upgrading;
- Shopify for basic e-commerce websites that don’t need customization, but to have maximum 3d party integrations for less costs). Depending on your Drupal website’s features and specific requirements you can consider migrating to the on of the CMS listed below, or, go ahead with custom PHP framewords or Phyton coding.
WordPress has more ready to use plugins, one of the most convenient and effective is SEO Yoast. On the other hand, Drupal provides robust built-in SEO features, that can be flexible to customize. However, it considered in 2024 that content value for the target audience is more crucial, and technical SEO still plays a big role in ranking your website.
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