We migrate across web platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Shopify and less popular CMS systems and this article is about Drupal to WordPress migration. The question is what the drawbacks and possible issues are and how to reduce their impact, so your Drupal to WordPress migration is smooth and stress-free.
As a Toronto-based web company, IDL Web Inc can run your Drupal to WordPress migration, ask for a FREE audit or a FREE quote and we will tell you what your Drupal website needs.
Key Steps to Make Your Drupal to WP Migration a Success
Where other companies take months to complete a Drupal migration, we stick to deadlines and help companies switch over within a set time frame and after the migration we provide continuous support for upgrades and maintenance.
Faster migrations
A set time frame and deadlines you can plan around.
Retain all content
Texts, images and unique pages move with the website.
Move SEO data
Meta titles, descriptions and SEO fields come across.
Permalink redirection
Redirects keep your old links working and pointing to the correct permalinks.
Migrate custom fields
Custom fields move to the new structure.
Transparent development
You see the progress and the cost throughout.
Content optimization
Content is reviewed and improved during the move.
User training
Your team learns the new WordPress admin.
Checkpoints Before a Drupal to WordPress Migration
Before the migration we recommend these steps:
- Create a scope of the features you have now and want on WordPress, including third-party integrations and API connections.
- Create the new website architecture and database structure to coordinate a smooth migration.
- Design the road map for moving your content, such as texts, images, unique pages, users and the purchases and activity history database.
- Remember the URLs, the SEO fields, the 404 pages and the 301 redirects, to avoid a drop in traffic and rankings after the migration.
- Check the PHP versions of your current Drupal and the supported WordPress version and compare them with your hosting PHP versions, because a lot of data and functionality can be missed only because of a PHP version gap.
- Estimate how customized your features and database are, to decide between a Drupal to WordPress migration plugin and a manual custom migration.
- Back up the Drupal website and its database.
Not sure what your Drupal website will need?
IDL Web Inc can audit your Drupal website, list the content, fields and URLs that have to move and tell you what the migration will take.
Checkpoints After a Drupal to WordPress Migration
- Test and QA all the content and features.
- Create a list of gaps and improvements with a precise description of how they should work.
- Check every feature connected to SEO: the URLs, the SEO fields migration, the image names, the 301 redirects and the 404 page.
Moving Away from Drupal Made Easy
We migrate it all, from post data, products, metadata, tags, featured images, attachments and custom fields to menu items, SEO meta, comments and users and we migrate it completely. No matter how simple or complex your Drupal installation is, our migration specialists stay on top of it to get the migration done smoothly.
We also take care of the redirects that are needed after the migration, so the old links keep working and redirect to the correct permalinks on WordPress.
Looking for professional support with your Drupal to WordPress migration?
Tell IDL Web Inc about your Drupal website and we will send you a plan and a price.
How IDL Web Inc Can Help
You can try a migration plugin on your own, however, a customized Drupal website needs a plan and a team that checks every field and redirect and that is where IDL Web Inc helps. We are a Canadian company and we help businesses in both Canada and the USA.
Migration audit
We list your content, custom fields, users and URLs before we move anything, see our free audit.
Migration to WordPress
We move your Drupal website to WordPress, see our migration to WordPress service.
Custom WordPress development
We rebuild custom Drupal features as WordPress plugins, see our WordPress custom development.
WordPress maintenance
We provide continuous support for upgrades and maintenance, see our WordPress maintenance and support plans.
Don't forget
Remember to back up the Drupal website and its database before you start and to test every URL after the migration. A missing redirect costs you traffic and rankings.
At IDL Web Inc we made migrations a straightforward and stress-free task, so leave it to our migration specialists, ask for a FREE audit or a FREE quote and we will tell you the plan. IDL Web Inc is a Canadian company that serves businesses in Canada and the USA. Keep up with us to know more of WordPress news/fixes!
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IDL Web Inc can run your Drupal to WordPress migration, ask for a FREE audit or a FREE quote and we will tell you what your Drupal website needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
How to import a blog post from Drupal to WordPress?
You can use tools like All-in-One WP Migration or WP Migrate DB. They speed up the migration, however, the database structure can be different, so check everything before launch, including the images, texts, headlines and fonts.
Why use Drupal migration services?
A professional agency brings deep expertise and it makes sense for customized Drupal to WordPress migrations because customized fields and parts of the code are not converted well by tools. Plugins and automated tools can assist with simple websites and the biggest trap is to underestimate the troubleshooting that follows a plugin migration.
What is the best alternative to Drupal?
WordPress suits blogs, news websites and ecommerce with the WooCommerce plugin, Joomla suits big customized projects that need scaling and upgrading and Shopify suits basic ecommerce websites that need many third-party integrations at a lower cost. Depending on your features you can also go with a custom PHP framework or Python.
Is Drupal or WordPress better for SEO?
WordPress has more ready-to-use plugins and one of the most convenient is Yoast SEO, while Drupal provides built-in SEO features that are flexible to customize. The value of your content for the target audience matters more and technical SEO still plays a big role in ranking.
