Migrating a website from Drupal to WordPress isn’t about speed. It’s about usability. WordPress gives non-technical teams more control over their own content, layouts, and pages without needing a developer every time something changes. I handle Drupal to WordPress migrations for organizations that want a simpler, more flexible system for their in-house editors while keeping the structure, data, and design they already invested in.
Drupal is excellent for complex data modeling and large-scale systems, but it can be overkill for marketing sites, company pages, or any setup that needs frequent content updates. WordPress shines when teams want to edit pages directly, add new sections, or experiment with layouts quickly. My goal in every migration is to make sure you gain that flexibility without sacrificing the integrity of your existing content or your search visibility.
A proper migration involves more than exporting nodes and importing them somewhere else. It means rethinking how your content model fits into WordPress, what should become a post, a page, or a custom type, and how to rebuild your design in a way that takes advantage of WordPress’s block-based editor.
My Drupal to WordPress migrations include:
- Content Migration: Clean transfer of nodes, pages, custom types, taxonomies, and media with all relationships preserved.
- User Migration: Import of all user accounts, roles, and permissions restructured for WordPress’s role system.
- Design and Theme Rebuild: Recreation of your Drupal layout in WordPress as a custom theme or block-based design that matches your brand and functions properly.
- SEO and URL Mapping: Redirects, permalinks, and metadata transferred or rebuilt to protect rankings and backlinks.
- Functionality Mapping: Replacement of Drupal modules with equivalent WordPress plugins or custom features when necessary.
- Media and File Handling: Relinking and restructuring image directories and embedded assets.
- Testing and Launch: Validation of every major page and feature before switching live traffic to the new site.
Most clients make this move when their content teams are spending too much time waiting on developers for basic updates. WordPress gives editors the power to build and revise pages quickly, run campaigns, and adapt messaging without touching code. It’s a content management system that prioritizes usability, which makes it a natural fit for marketing departments, internal communications, and organizations that rely on frequent publishing.
When I handle these migrations, I rebuild the site so it looks and functions naturally inside WordPress. The layout, structure, and navigation stay consistent, but the editing experience becomes dramatically easier. You end up with a site that your team can actually maintain and improve themselves.
If you’re ready to move your Drupal site into WordPress and give your in-house team full control of content editing, I can handle the migration from planning to final deployment.