drupal migration services
Drupal Migration Services: Ensure a Smooth Transition With Proven Expertise
- Founded by a Drupal engineer, with 15+ years of Drupal work
- 4.8 star rating on Clutch
- Migrations into Drupal and out of Drupal to platforms like WordPress
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Most Migrations Break Something That Matters
Unsupported CMS, growing risk
An end-of-life platform stops receiving security patches, and every unpatched module becomes an open door. Editors work around limitations instead of publishing. The longer the delay, the larger the eventual migration scope.
Lost URLs, lost pipeline
A migration that skips redirect mapping drops rankings, breaks paid campaign landing pages, and sends buyers to 404s. For organizations with long sales cycles, that traffic loss shows up in pipeline months later. Recovering it costs more than planning for it.
Content and data that will not line up
Legacy content types, custom fields, media libraries, and user accounts rarely map one to one on a new platform. Without a documented field-mapping plan, teams discover the gaps during launch week. That is when timelines slip and manual re-entry begins.
A Migration Plan You Can Review Before Anyone Touches Production
Content and data audit
We inventory every content type, field, taxonomy, media asset, user role, and integration on the current site. You get a content inventory spreadsheet with keep, merge, rewrite, and retire decisions. This is the document that sets migration scope.
Migration plan and field mapping
We produce a source-to-destination field-mapping document, a module and integration replacement list, and a cutover runbook with rollback steps. Your team reviews and signs off before build starts. No surprises during launch week.
Build and trial migrations
We build the Drupal environment and run repeatable trial migrations using the Migrate API and custom source plugins. Each run produces a validation report covering record counts, media integrity, and broken references. We repeat until the deltas are clean.
Cutover and post-launch support
We execute the final content freeze, delta migration, redirect deployment, and DNS switch against the runbook. After launch we monitor 404 logs, crawl errors, and form submissions, then hand over editor documentation and a training session.
Get a Migration Plan Before You Commit to a Build
“I am currently working on a site migration with O8. They are very responsive and do great work. I really enjoy working with them. I even look forward to meetings with the team, because I can discuss issues, work out solutions, and learn new things as well.”
Christina Goodland
Website Manager • OIT, UMN
“The O8 team has exceeded our expectations and been an incredible resource as we navigated the challenges of deploying complex projects. They've proved to be extremely responsive, creative, and responsible partners in the design, development, and deployment processes and I recommend them highly.”
Chris Scruton
Academic Technology Systems Analyst • University of Minnesota OIT
“The O8 team was a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for Drupal Web Solutions.”
Why Organizations Trust O8 With Their Drupal Migration
Founded by a Drupal engineer
O8 was started by a Drupal engineer, and Drupal has been core to the company since day one. That means migration decisions come from people who have written source plugins, not from account managers relaying requirements.
Platform-agnostic, not Drupal-only
We migrate into Drupal and out of Drupal to platforms like WordPress. If Drupal is not the right fit for your team, we will tell you before the contract, not after.
Business continuity during cutover
Lead-gen forms, gated assets, and e-commerce paths get tested against the runbook before the DNS switch. We treat revenue workflows as launch-blocking items, not post-launch cleanup.
Regulated and data-sensitive environments
Healthcare, higher education, and industrial B2B sites carry compliance and data-handling requirements that shape how we move user records.
SEO preserved by design
Redirect maps, metadata migration, structured data, and canonical rules are part of the migration plan, not a separate project. We monitor crawl errors and 404 logs after launch and fix them.
Documented handoff, not dependency
You get the field-mapping document, cutover runbook, and editor documentation as deliverables you keep. We also train your content team on the new authoring workflow so publishing does not stall after launch.
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Drupal migration is the process of moving a website's content, data, configurations, and user accounts from one system into Drupal, or from an older Drupal version into a current one. It covers content types, fields, taxonomy, media, users, permissions, integrations, and URL structure. A complete migration also carries over SEO signals such as metadata and redirects so search rankings and inbound links survive the move.
For Drupal specifically, the most used tools are the core Migrate API, Migrate Plus, Migrate Tools, Migrate Upgrade, and Drush for command line execution. Source-specific modules handle CSV, JSON, XML, and SQL imports, and custom source plugins handle anything unusual in a legacy database. We choose the toolset during the audit based on what your source system exposes.
Drupal has a steeper learning curve than platforms like WordPress, a smaller contributed module ecosystem, and a higher requirement for developer involvement on complex builds. Major version upgrades also require planning rather than a one-click update. Those tradeoffs buy you stronger content modeling, granular permissions, and multilingual and compliance capabilities that many organizations need.
Yes. We migrate out of Drupal as well as into it, most commonly to WordPress when a team wants a simpler authoring experience. The process is the same discipline in reverse: content audit, field mapping, trial migrations, redirect mapping, and a documented cutover.
We scope pricing after the content and data audit, because cost is driven by the number of content types, custom fields, integrations, and media assets involved, not by a package tier. A five-content-type brochure site and a multi-site university platform are different projects. Book a free assessment and we will give you a scoped estimate with the migration plan attached.
What Drupal Migration Services Mean for B2B Companies
Drupal migration services are the structured process of moving a website's content, data, user accounts, and configuration into Drupal, or from an older Drupal version into a supported one. The work covers content types and fields, taxonomy, media libraries, user roles and permissions, third-party integrations, and the full URL structure of the legacy site. It is a data engineering project with a marketing deadline attached.
For organizations with long sales cycles, the stakes sit outside the codebase. Gated assets, demo request forms, resource libraries, and campaign landing pages all carry pipeline. A migration that quietly breaks a redirect or drops a form handler costs revenue that will not show up in a QA checklist.
That is why every O8 migration produces documents before it produces code: a content inventory, a source-to-destination field-mapping sheet, and a cutover runbook your team reviews and approves. When we pair a migration with a broader rebuild, that same discipline carries into our Web Design & Development Services engagement so design, content, and data decisions stay in one plan.
When a B2B Company Needs Drupal Migration Services
A company needs Drupal migration services when its current CMS reaches end-of-life, when an older Drupal version loses official security coverage, or when the platform can no longer support the content model the marketing team actually needs. Drupal 7 reached end of life in January 2025, so organizations still on Drupal 7 need an upgrade plan. You can confirm supported versions on the Drupal core release schedule.
Other common triggers are less dramatic and more expensive over time. Editors copy and paste HTML because the content model does not fit. Developers patch modules by hand because upstream support ended. Integrations with your CRM or marketing automation platform break every time something updates.
Migration is also the right moment to fix the content model rather than replicate a broken one. If your current site structure is the real problem, a combined migration and website redesign engagement lets you rebuild information architecture and templates while the data is already in motion.
What a Good Drupal Migration Engagement Looks Like
A good Drupal migration engagement starts with a full content and data audit, followed by a documented migration plan covering field mapping, module replacement, integration handling, and redirect strategy. Trial migrations run repeatedly into a staging environment, each producing a validation report with record counts, media integrity checks, and broken reference lists. Only after the deltas are clean does anyone schedule a cutover.
The cutover itself is a runbook, not an improvisation. It defines the content freeze window, the delta migration, the redirect deployment, the DNS switch, and the rollback trigger. For the first 30 days after launch, we monitor 404 logs, crawl errors, form submissions, and analytics continuity.
Migration Paths We Support
| Migration path | Typical trigger | What O8 delivers |
|---|---|---|
| Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 or 11 | End of official security coverage | Content and config migration, module replacement list, contributed module gap analysis, theme rebuild |
| WordPress to Drupal | Complex content modeling, permissions, or multilingual needs | Custom source plugins, taxonomy and media mapping, editor role design, redirect map |
| Legacy or proprietary CMS to Drupal | Vendor lock-in, no upgrade path, unsupported stack | Database extraction, CSV/JSON/XML source pipelines, content normalization, integration rebuild |
| Drupal to WordPress | Smaller team, simpler authoring requirements | Content export and transformation, block and template mapping, redirect map, editor training |
The last row matters more than most agencies admit. We are not Drupal-only advocates. When a team's real need is a lighter authoring experience, our Custom WordPress Development Agency team handles the move off Drupal with the same audit, mapping, and cutover discipline we apply in the other direction.
How Much Do Drupal Migration Services Cost?
Cost is scoped after the content and data audit, because the variables that drive effort are specific to your site. The main ones are the number of content types and custom fields, the volume and cleanliness of media assets, the number of third-party integrations, whether the theme is rebuilt or ported, and how much content is being consolidated or retired along the way.
A site with a handful of content types and no integrations is a fundamentally different project than a multi-site platform with SSO, a CRM connection, and fifteen years of archived content. We do not quote a package tier before we know which one you have. Talk With a Drupal Migration Expert and you will get a scoped estimate delivered with the migration plan, so you can see exactly what drives the number.
How We Keep Migrations Auditable
Migrations generate a lot of state: trial run results, validation deltas, redirect coverage, and error logs across multiple environments. We use our delivery system, our internal delivery infrastructure, to keep those runs connected and reviewable, so every trial migration leaves a comparable record instead of a screenshot in a Slack thread. That gives your team an auditable trail of what moved, what did not, and what changed between runs. You can read more about how we build that infrastructure on the O8 Intelligence hub.
For teams modernizing more than the CMS, migration is often the entry point to a larger platform conversation, including how conversational search and machine-readable content affect site architecture, which our AI Web Development Agency team handles alongside the migration build.
Handoff, Training, and What Happens After Launch
A migration is not finished when DNS resolves. It is finished when your content team can publish confidently on the new platform without filing a ticket. That is why editor documentation and a live training session are deliverables, not add-ons.
We tailor that training to the roles that actually touch the site: authors, reviewers, and administrators each get workflows that match their permissions. Teams that want deeper enablement across platforms often move into our Highly Customized Training for WordPress, Drupal, and HubSpot CMS program after launch.
Our Drupal work spans healthcare, higher education, and industrial B2B, including Ecumen, Consulting Radiologists, Baker University, the University of Minnesota, MedSource Labs, Vector Magnetics, and past work for HelpSystems (now Fortra). Those environments come with compliance requirements, sensitive user data, and content teams who cannot afford a publishing freeze. We plan migrations around those constraints because we have run them inside those constraints for 15+ years.
