Drupal to WordPress migration
Want to migrate to WordPress from Drupal? You have come to the right place. Our team of expert developers at WPoets specializes in seamless migration services from Drupal to WordPress.
We will manage the technical complexities of the migration while you focus on what matters most – growing your business.
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From planning a migration strategy to exporting and importing data to recreating or redesigning your site to SEO migration to implementing custom functionalities of Drupal, we will manage all of these with ease.The new website will have all your valuable data, be optimised for better performance than the old Drupal website, be scalable to handle increasing traffic, and be easy to manage.
Your team will love managing your new website.
As website visitors (new and old) explore the revamped website, they’ll immediately notice the sleeker design, smoother navigation, and faster load times, making their browsing experience more enjoyable and efficient.
Drupal 7/8/9 to WordPress migration Services
❐ Content Migration
The WPoets team migrates your existing Drupal website content, such as text, PDFs, blog posts, and web pages (homepage, about, contact us, and more), case studies or success stories, product & service pages, and landing pages, to WordPress.
Our team of WordPress professionals has extensive experience migrating complex websites of any size and scale to WordPress.
❐ Custom Functionality & Plugins
Your Drupal website has custom features and functionalities implemented using contributed and custom modules in Drupal.
Our process begins with a comprehensive analysis of your existing Drupal website’s custom functionalities, processes, and workflows. We then break down each custom module in Drupal to understand its purpose and plan how it can be developed in WordPress.
Our team will then replicate the functionalities of Drupal modules using custom WordPress plugins or custom coding.
❐ SEO Migration
Your team has put a lot of effort into creating valuable content and performing SEO activities over the years, which is the backbone of your site’s visibility and search engine rankings.
Our team will import all the meta tags, titles, descriptions, on-page optimizations, and technical SEO, from the existing Drupal site to WordPress.
Some Drupal sites have complex URL structures that will be handled by implementing redirection rules.
❐ Users Migration
Your existing website is managed and used by various users, with roles and permissions allowing for fine-grained control over what users can do on the site.
All users will be added to WordPress, and their user roles and permissions in Drupal will be mapped to their corresponding equivalents in WordPress.
Once all the users are added, testing is performed to ensure that existing users can log in, access appropriate content, and perform their expected actions on the WordPress site as they did on Drupal.
❐ Performance Optimization
We offer performance optimization services designed specifically for enterprise clients.
To make your website operate at peak performance, we employ various techniques, such as server-side and client-side caching, image optimization by utilizing modern image formats and compression techniques, code minification, fine-tuning the database, global Content Delivery Network (CDN) integration, and many more techniques.
We will make sure that the new website migrated from Drupal will have a page speed score of 90+ on desktop and 70+ on mobile.
❐ Theme Migration
If you want your existing website’s design to be continued on the new website, we can do that, Our team of WordPress experts will ensure a smooth transition of your existing design while maintaining its continuity.
We can take this design continuity opportunity to improve your site’s user interface and user experience, making it more conversion-friendly.
Every aspect of your existing website design, from color schemes and typography to layout and imagery, is used to recreate a Drupal site’s design on WordPress.
We will ensure that your brand’s identity remains intact, so much so that your website visitors will not even notice that the website has been migrated to WordPress.
Ready to migrate from Drupal to WordPress?
WPoets is the premier choice for organizations looking to migrate from Drupal to WordPress. Trust us to seamlessly transition your website from Drupal to WordPress, ensuring a smooth and efficient process with minimal disruption to your online presence. Experience the benefits of WordPress, and let our team handle your migration needs with expertise and precision.
Our Process Explained
Initial Contact and Consultation
⦿ Our sales team will schedule a discovery call at your convenience to understand your current Drupal setup and specific requirements, along with an expected deadline for migration.
⦿ During the consultation, our experts would also gather detailed information about the existing Drupal site, including the complexity of the site structure, the sitemap, the volume of content, third-party integrations, and any custom functionalities.
⦿ We also ask for competitors’ references and discuss additional features or enhancements that you or your team wish to implement on the new WordPress site.
Proposal and Planning
⦿ Along with it, we create a detailed migration plan, highlighting key phases such as data migration, design replication or redesign, functionality transfer, quality assurance, and post-launch maintenance and support activities.
⦿ Upon approval of the proposal, a contract is signed. After that we assign a project manager (CX Customer Experience) and assemble a team to work on the migration.
⦿ We conduct a kickoff meeting (Sales to CX) to introduce the project manager, discuss the project goals, and start the project.
Migration Execution
⦿ Next, using manual and automated approaches, we transfer nodes (including articles, and pages), fields, blocks, metadata, and user data, from Drupal to WordPress. Throughout the transition, we ensure that data integrity and structure are maintained.
⦿ Parallelly, we start the design and development of the website. Depending on your needs, we either replicate the existing design or develop a new, modern design based on your preferences.
⦿ After that, custom functionalities from the Drupal site are recreated on WordPress using bespoke coding or appropriate plugins. We recommend keeping plugin usage to a minimum.
Quality Assurance and Deployment
⦿ Once the testing is done from our side, user acceptance testing (UAT) is performed from your side to ensure the website meets all requirements and operates seamlessly.
⦿ After successful testing by both teams, we make the website live.
⦿ Following the launch, we monitor the website to address any issues and ensure its smooth operation. We also provide training for your team on how to manage the website.
Ongoing maintenance and Continuous improvements
⦿ In short, we manage the websites for you so that your team can focus on growing your business.
Awesome packages for your Awesome business
Choose a plan that fits your business needs or call us at +91 75585 72697 to discuss more about the plans.
Pro
₹40,000
per month
For those who see their website as a marketing portal and need constant updates on their website for digital marketing needs.
Content Publishing
- Adding Updating content on upto 15 pages
- 5 Custom Designed images for website
- 2 HTML Email Newsletters
- 8 Custom Social Media Creatives
Continuous Improvements
- 15 Hours of New Feature Development
- A/B Testing 5 pages (per year)
- Design Enhancements
Analytics SEO
- Onpage Tech SEO Hygiene
- Google analytics Tag setup
- Monthly Generation and Submission of Sitemap
- Advanced page View report with Click Tracking
Performance and Security
- Security compliance in accordance with OWASP
- GDPR Cookies and Privacy Policy
- SSL Certificate
- Once a Month Core Web Vitals Optimisation
- Ongoing achievement of 90+ on Desktop and 70+ score on Mobile on Core Web Vitals
- Twice a Month Malware Scanning
DevOps
- 50GB VPS Hosting
- Weekly Full Backups on cloud
- WordPress Core u0026 Plugin Updates
- Monitoring Server Uptime u0026 Fixing Downtime
Epic
₹75,000
per month
For those who see their website as a business portal with regular updates, feature development and 3rd party integrations
Content Publishing
- Adding Updating content on upto 25 pages
- 10 Custom Designed images for website
- 4 HTML Email Newsletters
- 15 Custom Social Media Creatives
Continuous Improvements
- 30 Hours of New Feature Development
- A/B Testing 10 pages (per year)
- Design Enhancements
Analytics SEO
- Onpage Tech SEO Hygiene
- Google analytics Tag setup
- Monthly Generation and Submission of Sitemap
- Advanced page View report with Click Tracking + Goal/Funnel Tracking + Event Capturing
Performance and Security
- Security compliance in accordance with OWASP
- GDPR Cookies and Privacy Policy
- SSL Certificate
- Twice a Month Core Web Vitals Optimisation
- Ongoing achievement of 90+ on Desktop and 70+ score on Mobile on Core Web Vitals
- Once a Week Malware Scanning
DevOps
- 100GB VPS Hosting
- Daily Full Backups on cloud
- WordPress Core u0026 Plugin Updates
- Monitoring Server Uptime u0026 Fixing Downtime
Why Choose WPoets for Migration from Drupal to WordPress?
❍ SEO settings Preservation
Preserving your existing SEO rankings is crucial to maintaining your online visibility and traffic.
If you are working with any third-party SEO agency or have an in-house SEO team, we will work hand-in-hand to make sure all the SEO strategies are implemented on the new website.
We ensure all your metadata, including titles, descriptions, and header tags, are accurately transferred. We also verify that all content is correctly migrated, maintaining keyword optimization and internal linking structures.
Also, detailed URL mapping will be done to match old Drupal URLs with new WordPress URLs.
❍ Hybrid Migration Approach
We will use a hybrid approach, where we employ automation and manual migration processes, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal impact on your business operations.
This method ensures that any heavy customizations or functionality are manually migrated, while at the same time, standard functionalities, content (Blogs, case studies/success stories, whitepapers), media, or any structured data can be migrated in bulk through automation.
This approach is suitable for Drupal websites of any size, complexity, and scale.
❍ Team of Migration Specialists
Our teams understand the complexities of migrating your Drupal website to WordPress. With our dedicated specialists, you can trust that the migration will be efficient, smooth, fast, secure, and optimized for success.
We will ensure no errors, data loss, or downtime, with minimal disruption to your business operations.
To do that, our specialists will develop tailored solutions that align with your business needs, ensuring the new WordPress site meets your specific requirements.
Our team will conduct regular meetings to update you on progress during the migration.
❍ Better Speed and performance
Once your website is migrated to WordPress, you will experience that your website has better page speed and passed core web vitals assessments out of the box
It’s not magic; it’s our expertise.
We believe that better website performance is achieved from the ground up.
We recommend High-Performance hosting with WordPress-optimized server environments.
Implementation of page speed improvement techniques such as advanced server-side and browser caching, optimizing images, minifying and compressing HTML, CSS, and JS files, integrating global content Delivery Network (CDN), and lazy loading for images & videos, will be done
We recommended selecting and configuring only essential plugins, avoiding bloat that can slow down the site.
❍ Maintain Data Integrity
Maintaining the data integrity of your website is crucial during the migration to WordPress.
To ensure data integrity is maintained, we map the data structures of existing Drupal websites with WordPress. All content, metadata, and configurations are mapped and transferred. We also perform data cleansing to eliminate duplicate, invalid, or outdated data, after discussing with your team.
Throughout the migration process, we manually test and validate to verify the accuracy and completeness of the migrated data.
Partner with our agency for a seamless Drupal to WordPress migration process that prioritizes data integrity, ensuring a successful and reliable transition for your enterprise Drupal website.
❍ Tailored Migration Service
Migrating from Drupal to WordPress involves more than just transferring data; it requires a strategic approach that caters to the unique needs of your business.
To begin with, our sales team will have an in-depth consultation with you and your team to understand your current challenges, business goals, and requirements for your new WordPress site.
After that, our migration team conducts a thorough audit of your Drupal site to map out all the data structures, functionalities, designs, and integrations that need to be migrated.
After that, a customized migration plan will be created and shared along with financials with all the stakeholders, which will outline every step of the process, including timelines, and resource allocation. Once approved, we will start migrating the website.
Our Clients’ Love Us
I have been dealing with WPoets from last few months and the experience has been very positive . I had some complex and detailed application to be built and WPoets is helping me to build it with WordPress . I have found them to be proactive and helpful at all the stages.
Manish Chauhan
Founder and Chief Blogger, Jagoinvestor
The best part about WPoets team is that they go out of their way to help you out, and many times create a solution for you on WordPress that you may not have thought of.. I highly recommend WPoets for any kind of WordPress work.
Arun Prabhudesai
Co-Founder & CTO, Enhance Education
Frequently Asked Questions
How much will it cost to migrate from Drupal to WordPress?
The cost of migrating from Drupal to WordPress can vary depending on various factors, such as the size and complexity of your website, the amount of content that needs to be transferred, custom functionalities that need to be rebuilt, the number of unique page designs that need to be recreated or rebuilt, and whether there are any custom third-party integrations.
Contact us for a personalized quote, and let our team handle the heavy lifting for you.
How much time does it take to migrate a Drupal website to WordPress?
It's essential to plan and prepare for the migration process carefully to ensure a smooth transition without losing data or functionality during the move.
For a small to medium-sized website with straightforward content and minimal customization, the migration process could typically take around three to four weeks.
The migration process can take up to one to two months for larger websites with complex content structures, or custom functionality in Drupal need to be replicated in WordPress. This includes the time necessary to fully test the WordPress website after migration.
To get a more accurate estimate of the timelines for migration, we recommend consulting with our team of experts. WPoets provides a detailed timeline based on your specific website requirements and complexities.
Why should we hire WPoets for Drupal to WordPress migration?
Here are some reasons why you should consider hiring us
• Expertise: WPoets has a team of skilled professionals who are well-versed in migration from various CMSes to the WordPress platform.
• Customization: We tailor the migration to meet your specific needs and requirements, ensuring that all data, content, and functionalities are transferred accurately.
• Support: WPoets provides ongoing support throughout the migration process and beyond, ensuring that any issues or questions are promptly addressed.
• Timely Delivery: We understand the importance of timely delivery and work diligently to ensure that your Drupal to WordPress migration is completed within the agreed-upon timeframe.
• Quality Assurance: WPoets follows strict quality assurance processes to guarantee that your new WordPress site functions seamlessly without any glitches post-migration.
How do you handle the migration?
This analysis will help us create a detailed migration plan, outlining the approach (manual & automated), timeline, and resources needed for a successful transition.
Next, WPoets starts to migrate various types of content. This includes transferring webpages, blogs, media files, landing pages, and custom content types such as portfolios, testimonials, case studies, success stories, whitepapers, and resources, among others.
User data, including account information, roles, and permissions, is also carefully recreated in WordPress to ensure continuity and user experience on the new platform.
To ensure a smooth transition and avoid SEO disruptions, we handle URL redirection and SEO preservation. URL mapping is implemented to redirect old Drupal URLs to corresponding URLs on the new WordPress site, preserving search engine rankings and preventing broken links.
SEO elements such as meta titles, descriptions, and other attributes are migrated to WordPress to maintain visibility and ranking in search results.
Throughout the migration process, rigorous testing is conducted to verify that all content, functionalities, and SEO elements have been successfully transferred and are functioning as expected on the WordPress site. We also keep all stakeholders informed and update your team on progress. To do that, we conduct regular meetings to keep you updated at all times.
Any necessary cleanup, optimization, or adjustments are made to fine-tune the WordPress site for performance and usability post-migration.
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