Migrate to Drupal
Metadrop delivers expert Drupal migration services for mid-to-large organizations moving from WordPress, Sitecore, Liferay, SharePoint, or any custom CMS to Drupal, preserving content fidelity, SEO equity, and integrations throughout.
EU-based Drupal Silver Certified experts review your current platform and return a written migration plan within 5 business days.
Why organizations migrate to Drupal
Enterprise scalability comes without licensing fees. Drupal handles multilingual, multi-site, and high-traffic architectures that proprietary CMSs charge premium license tiers for, making the economics compelling at scale.
Security and compliance are built in. Structured permissions, granular access control, GDPR-aligned audit trails, and a mature security team releasing patches within hours of a CVE reduce the risk surface that typically accompanies proprietary platforms.
Data sovereignty and vendor independence are core to the open-source model. Your data stays on infrastructure you control, in jurisdictions you choose, with no SaaS provider imposing data residency or retention policies.
- Total cost reduction: organizations migrating from Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, or SharePoint eliminate five- and six-figure annual licensing costs while gaining a more capable platform.
- Future-proof architecture: open standards, API-first capabilities, and a global contributor community mean Drupal keeps pace with headless, AI-assisted, and composable digital strategies.
- Proven at scale: Metadrop has migrated platforms for clients including Saint-Gobain, Save the Children, Solvay, and Syensqo across 50+ countries and 30+ languages.
Migrating content from other systems with Migrate API
Platforms we migrate from
- WordPress to Drupal: structured content migration using the Drupal Migrate API; all posts, media, taxonomy, users, and URL aliases migrated with redirect maps preserved.
- Sitecore to Drupal: content schema mapping, component library translation, and integration re-architecture for CRM-connected enterprise sites.
- Liferay to Drupal: portal content and intranet structures migrated preserving role-based access controls and workflow configurations.
- SharePoint to Drupal: document libraries, page content, and user directories migrated; editorial workflows and approval processes rebuilt as Drupal Workflows.
- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to Drupal: dam asset transfer, page hierarchy migration, and personalization rule mapping.
- Joomla, HubSpot, and custom-built platforms: source-agnostic extraction using ETL pipelines and custom Migrate API source plugins for non-standard data structures.
- Drupal version migrations (D6/D7 to D10/D11): handled as a distinct Drupal upgrade service; see that page if your source is already Drupal.
How Drupal migration works: our 5-phase process
Phase 1: Discovery and strategic decisions
Every migration is an opportunity to carry forward what works, retire what does not, and upgrade capabilities. Metadrop works with your team to decide jointly what content migrates, what is archived, and which features are rebuilt using contrib modules or custom code. These decisions are locked in Phase 1 so scope changes in later phases are minimized.
- Full content inventory: page count, content types, media assets, taxonomy structures, user accounts, and third-party data sources catalogued; each item tagged migrate / archive / rebuild.
- Source schema analysis: field-by-field mapping from source CMS to target Drupal content model; transformation rules and data gaps identified before any code is written.
- Risk assessment: integrations, redirects, SEO signals, and compliance requirements reviewed; timeline and effort estimate delivered as a written migration plan.
Phase 2: Migration architecture and staging
- Migrate API plugin development: custom source, process, and destination plugins written for your specific data shapes; no off-the-shelf assumptions.
- Destination content model setup: Drupal content types, fields, paragraphs, taxonomies, media types, and views configured to match the agreed information architecture.
- Staging environment runs: iterative migration runs on a staging copy of the source data; output validated against acceptance criteria before production is touched.
Phase 3: QA and pre-production validation
- Content completeness checks: every migrated record verified against the source. Counts, field values, metadata, media references, and taxonomy assignments are confirmed using the content_first and entity_mesh modules to query Drupal data integrity at entity level.
- Redirect and SEO validation: 301 redirect maps crawled with Screaming Frog; broken links, redirect chains, missing canonical tags, and absent hreflang entries flagged and resolved before the production run.
- Metadata integrity: metatags, OG tags, page titles, structured data, and XML sitemap entries validated against source; any gap treated as a blocker.
- Acceptance sign-off: stakeholder review of QA report; no production migration proceeds until all blockers are cleared.
Phase 4: Production migration and go-live
- Zero-downtime execution: production migration is scheduled and scripted; rollback procedures are in place before the cutover window opens.
- Content integrity validation: automated counts and spot-checks confirm every record, media asset, and URL alias migrated correctly; diff reports provided.
- Redirect deployment: 301 redirect maps activated to preserve SEO equity and prevent broken links for users and search engines.
Phase 5: Post-migration stabilization
- Smoke tests and regression checks run against all critical user journeys in the first 24 hours.
- Integration verification: SSO, CRM, analytics, payment, and search integrations confirmed end-to-end.
- Handover and editorial training for content teams on the new Drupal editorial interface.
Save the Children
Large NGOs face the same challenges as companies or administrations of their size do. Their website must be part of the solution.
Solvay
Corporate site of Solvay Group, a big chemical company.
Balnearios de España
The client needed to quickly undertake a migration to Drupal 8 and a new theme. Metadrop put its best tools at the disposal of this project.