Migration guide
Can you migrate Drupal to WordPress?
Last updated: · By the Replatform Radar team — specialists in pre-migration CMS content audits
Yes — Drupal to WordPress is one of the highest-volume CMS migrations, driven largely by Drupal 7's end-of-life and the pull of simpler authoring and maintenance. But it is a content-model translation, not a copy: Drupal's entities and typed fields are richer than vanilla WordPress, so the real work is deciding how much structure to preserve and rebuilding what WordPress lacks natively — Views, contributed modules, and multilingual.
Drupal is built around entities and fields: content types (bundles) with strongly-typed fields (field_*), entity references between them, and taxonomy vocabularies. WordPress's native model is comparatively flat — posts and pages plus loosely-typed post meta, categories and tags. The core decision is how much of Drupal's structure to preserve: each content type typically becomes a Custom Post Type (CPT), and each structured field is rebuilt with Advanced Custom Fields (or Pods/Toolset) rather than dumped into the post body.
The second reality is that Drupal's content model is usually richer than vanilla WordPress, so a chunk of the work is rebuilding what WordPress lacks natively. The clearest example is Views — Drupal's UI for every listing, archive, and filtered block. WordPress has no built-in equivalent, so each View is re-implemented with WP_Query and custom templates, or approximated with a plugin (Toolset Blocks, Query Wrangler, GravityView). Twig theming and contributed modules (Webform, Paragraphs, Rules, Commerce) likewise have no drop-in counterparts.
So an automated tool moves the data but not the behavior. Plugins like FG Drupal to WordPress reliably migrate nodes, taxonomies, users, comments, and media, but content types with many custom fields, listings, multilingual structure, and URL/redirect logic still need mapping, configuration, and often custom scripting. A realistic project audits the Drupal structure, decides what to keep, models the CPT/field/taxonomy equivalents, migrates data, rebuilds listings and templates, and preserves URLs via redirects.
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FAQ
Drupal to WordPress: frequently asked questions
Can you migrate a Drupal site to WordPress?
Yes. Content, users, comments, taxonomies, and media migrate well with tools like FG Drupal to WordPress plus WP-CLI or custom scripts for scale. What does not migrate automatically is behavior — Views, custom-module logic, and Twig templates are rebuilt, not copied.
Is it hard to move from Drupal to WordPress?
The data move is straightforward; the hard part is the model gap. Because Drupal's structured fields, entity references, Views, and multilingual model are richer than vanilla WordPress, effort scales with how much structure you preserve and how many listings and modules you rebuild — not with page count alone.
What happens to my Drupal Views?
Nothing transfers automatically — WordPress has no Views equivalent. Each View is re-created with WP_Query and custom templates, or approximated with a plugin. This is often the largest single work item in the migration.
Will my URLs and SEO survive?
They can, but only with deliberate work: baseline every URL/title/meta first, match WordPress permalinks to old Pathauto aliases where possible, and 301-redirect everything else without chains. Expect some short-term ranking fluctuation even with perfect redirects; sloppy redirect maps cause large, slow-to-recover losses.
Further reading
- Drupal — official site
- WordPress — official site
- Google Search Central — site moves with URL changes (how to preserve SEO during a migration)
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