Drupal to WordPress Migration
Your Drupal site works, but every landing page still waits for a sprint. We move it to WordPress with the content model, URLs, redirects and editorial workflows intact.
The real problem
The site loads. The content is there. What does not work is the part where your team wants a landing page live on Thursday and the answer is that engineering can look at it next sprint.
Every campaign gets scoped against developer availability. Marketing quietly stops asking for the things that are hard to get, and the roadmap starts to reflect what the CMS allows rather than what the business wants. That cost never shows up as a line in a budget, which is exactly why it survives so long.
Still weighing the platforms? Read WordPress vs Drupal for enterprise teams, or compare WordPress with other platforms.
What the migration covers
A migration is not a content export. These are the six layers that decide whether the new site behaves like the old one on launch day.
Content model mapping
Drupal nodes become posts, pages or custom post types. Field API tables map to WordPress meta. Revision history comes across, so the editorial trail is not lost.
Taxonomies, users and roles
Vocabularies become categories, tags or custom taxonomies, mapped during discovery. Accounts import with author attribution preserved. Password hashes are cryptographically incompatible between the two systems, so accounts arrive without passwords and a coordinated reset runs at launch.
Media library
A two-pass process: files first, with deduplication, then a second pass that rewrites every inline reference inside post bodies. PDFs and other indexed assets get explicit redirects.
URLs and redirects
Drupal Pathauto patterns rarely match WordPress permalinks. The mapping table is built from a full crawl, not from guesses, and one rule is enforced: no redirect chains. A goes to C, never A to B to C.
Integrations
Contributed modules do not map one to one. The discovery audit decides, module by module, what gets rebuilt, what a core feature replaces, and what quietly retires.
Editorial workflows
Content moderation chains, reviewer assignment and scheduled publishing map onto WordPress roles and capabilities, plus custom workflow code where approval logic is complex.
What changes
After the migration, the people who write the content are the people who publish it.
Blocks assemble into pages without a ticket. Editorial review happens inside the CMS instead of in a spreadsheet. Your development team goes back to work that genuinely needs developers. The point is not a nicer admin screen, it is removing engineering from the critical path of a marketing decision.
The same move from another platform: Ueno Bank left Liferay for WordPress VIP, and campaign launches went from 3 weeks to 3 hours. Read the case
The plan
Three steps, with a decision point at the end of each one. Your Drupal site stays live until the new one is verified.
A full crawl of your Drupal site, a content inventory, a module-by-module audit and a baseline of every URL, canonical tag and metadata value. Then a pilot: a real slice of content migrated end to end, so the mapping is proven before the full run.
Frontend, backend and content migration run in parallel while Drupal stays live and editable. QA covers browsers, integrations and the editor workflows, tested with the people who will use the CMS.
Cutover with the previous environment kept available, so rollback is a decision rather than a project. We watch rankings and coverage until they settle, and keep improving the platform with your team.
Before you commit
In 30 minutes we look at your content model, your integrations and your URL structure, and tell you what moving them involves. No obligation to go further.
FAQ
The questions that come up on every Drupal migration call, answered without hedging.
Ready when you are
Bring us your Drupal site and we will map the path off it: content model, redirects, integrations, and the workflows your team will use on day one.
