Migrate Your Website with Drupal to WordPress Plugin
How do you choose a CMS platform for your new website? I guess you do a quite nice research before site creation. But, does it always prevent from the mistakes? No, sometimes you can make a misstep and start a website on a wrong CMS. It doesn’t mean that platform you have selected is bad, maybe it is just not for you. Today we will talk about two the most popular and powerful CMSs Drupal and WordPress. Besides, we will try to explain, how to proceed with the Drupal to WordPress migration by using a plugin.
Drupal is a CMF with a large and active community. Actually Drupal powers millions of websites, most of them are corporate websites which are world biggest. They are the following: WhiteHouse.gov, World Economic Forum, Stanford University, and Examiner.com.
Things You Should Know About Drupal:
- It was created over ten years ago and released as open-source software
- Drupal is a multi-user system, letting site visitors log in or just browse the site
- This CMS hosts hundreds of free, fully customizable themes
- It is one of the most secure CMS, and lot of experts works on it all around the world to make it even better. Drupal is a good solution for huge corporate websites, however it is quite difficult to work with.
WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world. It has super quick installation. It is enough 5 min to set a website. This platform is great for beginners and for professional users as well.
Learn more about WordPress:
- The platform has the massive user and developer community
- WordPress has the widest base of plugins and themes to choose from
- This CMS theming language is fairly simple and straightforward
- The backend layout is streamlined and intuitive, so any user will be able to easily find their way around with administration section.
- WordPress is really flexible software Actually this platform has so many positive aspects, it is even hard to list all of them. Wordpress is great for SEO, sites powered by WP are more viewable by search engines, this CMS has lots of tools for publishing, it allows you to build an application, etc.
About CMS2CMS: Automated Drupal to WordPress Migration Plugin
There is a plugin which will help you to migrate your website from Drupal to WordPress fast and with little efforts. You can migrate websites with all the content only within a few clicks of the mouse and you don’t need any coding skills or knowledge.
The following content items can be migrated from Drupal to WordPress with CMS2CMS:
- articles
- pages
- images (as an option)
- categories
- tags
- users
- internal links
- comments
- attachments
- custom post types
- custom fields
Steps to Take For Drupal to WordPress Plugin Migration:
- Install WordPress and have both Drupal and WordPress websites live.
- Find Drupal website FTP access details (host, username, password) - these are used to install connection bridge on Drupal site.
- Set up custom URL structure for WordPress for internal links to work correctly after the migration.
- Go to WP plugin directory and find CMS2CMS: Automated Drupal to WordPress Migration, download it to your computer.
- Upload the file into your WordPress website admin panel and activate the plugin.
- Register your CMS2CMS account.
- Connect your websites. Specify your Drupal website URL and verify the connection.
- Select the migration options and Start Free Demo migration in order to check up the service in action.
- If you are satisfied with the results of Demo, then start your Full Website Migration.
Enjoy your new WordPress website.