Migration guides
CMS migration guides
Straight answers on the moves people actually make. What content genuinely carries over, what has to be rebuilt from scratch whatever the vendor implied, roughly how long it takes, and how to come out the other side still findable. Each guide pairs with a scan of your own site, because your migration is not the one in the guide.
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Heading somewhere specific? We have destination guides for moving to WordPress and going headless, plus what to look for in hosting once the platform is settled.
Where CMS teams are moving
Line density shows how common each move is, hover a platform to trace its migrations. Weights are industry-informed estimates, not exact migration counts.
Migration case studies
Real moves with the names taken off. What broke, what held, and what it took to keep the traffic through cutover.
- Drupal → WordPressDrupal to WordPress: Lessons from FleetNet America's Move
- Sitecore → ContentfulSitecore to Contentful Migration: A Composite Case Study
- Drupal → ContentfulDrupal to Contentful Migration: A Grounded Case Study
- Adobe Experience Manager → OptimizelyAEM to Optimizely Migration: An Anonymized Composite Study
- Adobe Experience Manager → DrupalAdobe Experience Manager to Drupal: Migration Case Study
- WordPress → ContentfulWordPress to Contentful Migration: A Composite Case Study
- WordPress → ShopifyWordPress to Shopify: A Composite Migration Case Study
- Squarespace → WordPressSquarespace to WordPress: A Composite Migration Case Study
- WordPress → WordPressWordPress to WordPress: A Composite Replatform Case Study
- Sitecore → Sitecore XM CloudSitecore to XM Cloud: A Composite Migration Case Study
- WordPress → SanityWordPress to Sanity: A Composite Migration Case Study
- Drupal → WordPressDrupal to WordPress: A Composite Migration Case Study
- Adobe Experience Manager → ContentfulAEM to Contentful: A Composite Migration Case Study
- Sitecore → OptimizelySitecore to Optimizely Migration: A Composite Case Study
Migrating to a headless CMS
A headless CMS separates content from presentation: you get a content API and build the front end yourself (React/Next.js, Vue/Nuxt, or Astro). Teams move to headless for omnichannel delivery, faster sites, and a composable stack — but it’s a re-platform, not a port. The full guide covers every headless platform (Contentful, Sanity, Storyblok, Strapi and more), the static-site frameworks that render them, what changes, costs, and FAQs.
Read the headless CMS migration guide →Compatibility matrix
Every path we cover, on one grid. Find your current CMS along the side, your next platform along the top, and the arrow where they meet takes you to that guide.
| from ↓to → | WordPress | Drupal | Optimizely | Contentful | Contentstack | Sanity | Storyblok | Sitecore XM Cloud | Webflow | WooCommerce |
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| Liferay DXP | → | |||||||||
| Sitecore | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | |||
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| Drupal | → | → | ||||||||
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| Joomla | → | |||||||||
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| Wix | → | |||||||||
| Shopify | → |
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