Switch your Drupal to WordPress Absolutely Hands-Off
Drupal and WordPress are currently listed as the world’s top popular and “beloved” CMSs. Although there doesn’t exist a perfect one-size-fits-all solution - both softwares are considered to be really close to being one, however from different perspectives.
Without delving deeply into hard core development features - complexity is exactly the quality which sets Drupal and Wordpress apart. Drupal is treated as the most advanced and robust platform which allows to build any type of website with any complexity right from a simple personal blog to a professional ecommerce store. The platform enjoys the fame of being the most flexible out there - you’ll find no limits to your fantasy within the platform and even the most ambitious plans will find the necessary tools to be realized within Drupal platform. However, with flexibility comes its price - complexity. If you have no programming experience and don’t want to spend months getting used to how it works - you’ll definitely find Drupal extremely difficult to work with. Besides, all its powerful features will no matter for non-techie persons who don’t have an idea of how to get full advantage of them.
WordPress, to the contrary, has proven itself as an award-winning CMS in terms of user-friendly multifunctionality. It doesn’t expect any programming experience or coding knowledge to work with and generally is much less complicated compared to Drupal. It is the platform of choice for non-tech savvy and first-time users because the installation, main changes and updates can be performed within minutes. It comes packed with a huge number of plugins and extensions which allow your website grow and scale as required. One more speak-for-itself advantage is its strong SEO features - WordPress is basically favoured by Google that help to boost up the traffic to your site.
Overall, you have a great number of opportunities with both above-mentioned CMS platforms, and it’s up to you to make the decision between them two taking into account your technical and programming experience.
Discover how to save time and effort with CMS2CMS automated migration service which will perform your conversion from Drupal to WordPress completely hands-off. No special skills and knowledge are required. You just have to follow the next steps one-by-one:
Register your CMS2CMS Account on the official website by specifying your username and password. You can also perform that via Facebook or Google;
Establish your Source and Target Sites. Select the current and new types of platforms. Enter the URL addresses of your Drupal and WordPress sites;
Connect your Sites. Download Connection Bridge file (zip) to your PC. Extract “cms2cms” folder from the zip. Connect to your Drupal website via FTP. Upload “cms2cms” folder to Drupal root folder. Go back to migration wizard and click “Verify connections to your Sites”.
Select Migration Preferences from the following options: migrate media, make URLs SEO friendly, clear Target website data, get design suggestion. Try Demo Migration.
Start Full Migration. After the click, your Drupal website content will be converted to WordPress.
After the full migration is completed, check up the results and start working with your WordPress website. A huge number of new features and possibilities will be opened before you to make your site the project of the dream.
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