Moving to Drupal is easy - from any platform
No matter why you're moving, it would be our pleasure to welcome you to the Drupal community!
If you're still thinking through your options, consider reading: When is Drupal the right tool for the job?
The process of migrating a site to Drupal doesn’t vary much from platform to platform. Whether you’re leaving Wordpress or Contentful, the outline steps will be roughly the same:
- Assess and plan
- What functionality needs building?
- What content needs building?
- Plan the content migration, if needed
- Build
- Create the Drupal site and all the specced functionality
- Make everything look great
- Create the content migration
- Finalise the content
- Run the content migration, if needed
- Final content creation and edits
- Go live!
Don’t assume anything about this process - our pragmatic team are great at helping you to understand the project complexity, make simplifications and take technical decisions that will help you keep costs down.
Functionality & Content
Drupal can match most CMS standard functionality with ease. But we’ll need to review and plan for any other modules, plugins or custom code that you have. The more complex your site and your content rendering, the more complex the corresponding Drupal build will be. But you have the Drupal community on your side, with thousands of contributed modules ready to provide a large percentage of standard functionality needs.
Content or data migration
If you’re planning to bring your content or data to the new site, we’ll need to build a data migration plan that pulls across all your data and allows time to fix any issues before go-live.
Or, you can the opportunity to start from scratch.
There are also options for pulling in initial drafts of your existing content by scraping your current site.
On “the big day” we’ll be working hard with you to ensure everything runs smoothly, including any final content changes and any IP/DNS changes.
Once the site is live, we start up your ongoing support and maintenance contract, which reserves a number of hours’ development and support time each month.
We’re also on hand for further training for you and your team.
Drupal Training
Drupal Development
Maintenance & Support
Read our EDF Energy case study, which involved multiple sites on a huge scale, to learn how our capacity and flexibility moved their sites to latest Drupal without fuss.
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ComputerMinds are well-experienced in Drupal build and migration projects. With the right technical input from your side, we can switch you over with no gap in site availability.