Migrate to Drupal or upgrade your existing Drupal website. We handle content migration, module compatibility, performance optimization, and secure deployments with minimal downtime.
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Our software engineers will examine the existing software solution and technology stack to advance it with Drupal and execute the migration to newer frameworks, ensuring high performance and quality.
To unlock new value from your software, we review its infrastructure, rewrite or rebuild its modules and functionality, ensuring accurate and rapid optimization to preserve your product's power.
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Drupal migration services help businesses and digital teams move a website’s content, structure, users, and SEO signals into Drupal — or upgrade between Drupal versions — with minimal risk and downtime. Unlike a “quick import” that often moves only basic content, a proper migration is a controlled engineering process: you audit what exists, map data and relationships, migrate in iterations, validate results, and launch with SEO and tracking intact.
At Alpina Tech, we deliver Drupal website migration for agencies, product teams, and enterprise organizations that can’t afford broken content, lost traffic, or weeks of post-launch cleanup. Whether you need a Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 migration, a WordPress to Drupal migration, or a complex platform consolidation, we approach it as a predictable project with clear scope, measurable quality checks, and a roadmap you can trust.
Drupal migration services are the end-to-end process of moving a website or digital platform into Drupal (or between Drupal versions) while preserving business-critical functionality and content integrity.
A real migration is more than transferring pages:
It preserves data relationships (content types, taxonomy, authorship, translations, references).
It protects SEO equity (URLs, redirects, metadata, structured data, indexability).
It maintains governance and access (users & roles, permissions, editorial workflows).
It reduces operational risk (repeatable runs, validation, QA, rollbacks).
A basic import typically brings over flat content (like titles and body text). In contrast, Drupal content migration treats your site as a structured system:
Data mapping defines how each legacy element becomes a Drupal entity or field.
Content types and fields are rebuilt with future scalability in mind.
Taxonomy and references remain connected (categories, tags, related content, embedded assets).
Multilingual content is migrated correctly (languages, translations, language fallbacks).
SEO-safe Drupal migration ensures search engines don’t interpret the launch as a brand-new site.
Business value is straightforward: faster delivery, fewer regressions, more stable rankings, and a Drupal foundation that’s easier to evolve.
A reliable Drupal website migration follows a structured lifecycle. The goal is repeatability: you should be able to migrate, verify, adjust, and migrate again until everything is correct.
We start by understanding what must be migrated and what should be retired:
Content inventory (pages, articles, products, landing pages, media)
Existing content types, fields, and taxonomy structures
Users & roles, editorial workflows, permissions model
Multilingual setup and translation completeness
SEO footprint (URL patterns, redirects, metadata, indexation state)
Integrations and dependencies (CRM, search, DAM, analytics, custom APIs)
Legacy systems and data sources (custom CMS, databases, third-party tools)
Deliverable: a migration scope with risks, assumptions, and priorities.
Data mapping translates legacy content into Drupal’s structure:
Define target content types and field schemas
Map legacy fields to Drupal fields (including transformations and normalization)
Map taxonomy terms, vocabularies, and hierarchical relationships
Map authorship, users & roles, and content ownership
Identify edge cases: missing references, inconsistent formats, invalid HTML, outdated embeds
Deliverable: a mapping document and migration plan aligned with your Drupal architecture.
Migration should not be “one big bang.” We run migrations in stages:
Start with a representative subset (pilot)
Validate results, fix mapping issues, rerun
Migrate remaining content in batches
Keep migrations idempotent (safe to rerun without duplications)
This approach reduces risk and makes QA meaningful, because you can compare outcomes between iterations.
Quality assurance is where migrations succeed or fail. We validate:
Content completeness (counts, sampling, critical paths)
Field accuracy (formats, dates, references, media links)
Taxonomy correctness (terms, hierarchies, tagging consistency)
User access control (roles, permissions, editorial flows)
Multilingual content integrity (language association, translated fields)
SEO signals (URLs, metadata, canonical behavior, indexability)
Performance (page speed, caching behavior, search indexing)
Deliverable: QA report and punch list with acceptance criteria.
A migration launch should be a coordinated release:
Freeze windows and content delta plan (what changes after the last migration run)
DNS / hosting readiness, environment parity
Redirect deployment and verification
Monitoring: logs, analytics, search console signals, crawl health
Post-launch stabilization plan
Deliverable: launch checklist and a rollback-ready release plan.
Drupal migration services typically cover far more than “pages.” A successful migration includes the full content model and the operational layer around it.
We migrate:
Content (pages, articles, products, landing pages)
Fields and structured data (custom fields, compound elements)
Taxonomies (categories, tags, vocabularies, hierarchies)
Media (images, documents, video references, alt text, captions)
Users & roles (accounts, permissions, authorship)
Multilingual content (translations, language metadata)
SEO data (URLs, metadata, canonical rules, schema where applicable)
If needed, we also handle:
Content references and entity relationships
Comments, revisions, moderation states
Menus and navigation structures
Redirect rules and legacy URL patterns
Drupal version upgrades are often the most demanding type of migration because Drupal has major architectural shifts between generations — especially from Drupal 6/7 to Drupal 10.
A Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 migration is not a “standard upgrade.” It’s a platform transition that usually involves:
Rebuilding the content model with modern Drupal best practices
Replacing legacy approaches with supported patterns (entities, fields, configuration management)
Re-implementing functionality from older modules that are deprecated or no longer available
Updating theming to modern front-end approaches (Twig-based themes, component-driven UI)
Key challenges typically include:
Legacy data inconsistencies and “historical” content edge cases
Custom modules that must be rewritten
Outdated taxonomy structures that no longer fit business needs
Performance bottlenecks caused by old architecture and storage patterns
Drupal 8 to Drupal 9/10 upgrades are often smoother, but still require careful planning:
Address deprecated APIs and dependencies
Update contributed modules and themes
Ensure compatibility with the target Drupal core
Validate performance, caching, and search behavior after the upgrade
A safe approach is to treat module replacement as a functional requirement, not a checkbox:
Identify what the module actually provides (business function)
Choose a supported alternative or implement a custom solution
Confirm content storage changes and configuration implications
QA the user experience and editorial workflows
SEO-safe Drupal migration protects organic traffic by ensuring search engines can interpret the new site as a stable continuation — not a different website.
If you can preserve URLs, you should. Stable URLs reduce reindexing risk and help maintain rankings.
We focus on:
Keeping URL patterns consistent where feasible
Preserving critical high-traffic URLs
Avoiding accidental changes caused by rewritten aliases or language prefixes
When URL preservation isn’t possible, 301 redirects are required:
Map old URLs to the most relevant new destinations
Avoid chains (old → intermediate → new)
Avoid blanket redirects to the homepage (bad for UX and SEO)
Validate redirects at scale (spot checks are not enough)
Migration must keep core SEO fields and signals aligned:
Title tags, meta descriptions
Canonical rules and duplicate handling
Open Graph / social metadata (when used)
Structured data (where applicable)
Robots directives and indexation controls
The biggest SEO failures usually come from:
Accidentally blocking crawlers (robots.txt or meta robots misconfig)
Launching with missing redirects
Broken canonical rules causing duplicate indexing
Large-scale 404s and soft 404s
Missing internal links and navigation changes that reduce crawl depth
To protect traffic, we recommend:
Pre-launch crawl comparison (old vs. staging)
Post-launch monitoring of index coverage and crawl errors
Rapid iteration window after go-live (fixes in days, not weeks)
Enterprise Drupal migration often involves more than content. It may include multiple systems, custom data models, and integration-heavy architectures.
We support complex scenarios such as:
When data volume grows, migration strategy matters:
Batch processing and staged migrations
Performance tuning for import operations
Validation using counts, sampling, and “golden record” checks
Operational readiness for search indexing and caching layers
Enterprise sites frequently store data beyond standard nodes:
Custom entities, relationships, and domain models
External data sources (ERP, PIM, DAM)
Business rules that must be preserved during transformation
Migrations often touch:
CRM and marketing automation (forms, lead routing)
Search platforms (Solr, Elasticsearch-based solutions)
SSO and identity providers
Analytics and event tracking
API consumers and partner integrations
For decoupled architectures, migration must align with API contracts:
Content modeling for API-first delivery
Consistent identifiers and references for frontend apps
Versioning and backward compatibility strategy
Validation through API responses, not only UI pages
Choosing a Drupal migration partner is less about promises and more about process maturity and engineering discipline.
With Alpina Tech you get:
Drupal expertise across content modeling, architecture, and platform engineering
A structured migration approach built around audit → mapping → iterative execution → QA → launch
An SEO mindset baked into the workflow (URLs, redirects, metadata, indexation controls)
Enterprise experience with complex data models, integrations, and scale constraints
Post-migration support for stabilization, monitoring, and ongoing improvements
We communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, keep documentation actionable, and define acceptance criteria early so the project doesn’t drift.
Drupal migration services make sense when your current platform creates technical or business drag — or introduces risk you can’t ignore.
Common triggers:
Outdated Drupal version (Drupal 6/7) with increasing maintenance cost
Performance issues caused by legacy architecture, heavy modules, or inefficient content structures
Security risks from unsupported core versions or outdated dependencies
Business scaling needs: multilingual expansion, more content types, improved governance, enterprise integrations
Platform consolidation: moving from WordPress or a custom CMS into a unified Drupal ecosystem
Replatforming initiatives: redesign, rebranding, headless transition, or new editorial workflows
If you’re unsure whether you need a full migration or an upgrade path, an initial assessment typically clarifies scope, risk, and ROI quickly.
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