Drupal 8.6.5 to WordPress | Midphase

  • cyiesla

    (@cyiesla)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hello all. I’m helping a new client change their current website over from the Drupal engine to WordPress. Midphase has an option built in to install WordPress and I’m hoping this will overwrite the file structure of Drupal. Is this correct?

    The web developer who had this site before me separated out the directories in a weird way and since Drupal requires manual updates to it’s core, some manipulation of the file structure was required. The result is that the file structure of this Drupal-built site is somewhat broken and won’t even display the web site as a result. The directories feel messy. We have all the content off-site and plan on rebuilding the new site with this content, so we’re not neccesarily trying to salvage the old file structure. In summary, my questions are:

    1) Will installing wordpress within Midphase (the hose) override the current Drupal file structure with it’s own (this is what I’m hoping)?

    2) Does anyone have any experience switching from Drupal to WordPress?

    3) If I need to rebuild the file directory from scratch, how would I go about doing that?

    Thanks to the community in advance!

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 4 months ago

    I did this once, D6 to WordPress. I found some scripts that created a WordPress database from the Drupal one. It sort of worked the 2nd time. 🙂

    Don’t try to do this in place — the file structures are completely different. Work in a staging area.

    Were I to do it again (and it would involve vast sums of cash and threats on my life), I’d export the drupal site into CSV or XML files and use a plugin like wpallimport.com to populate an otherwise empty WordPress site. Note that you cannot convert a Drupal theme — you’re going to have to work with a WP theme, either one you download or build yourself.

    Once you have it in WordPress, you can use WP-based tools to do the final cleanups and then move the site into production.

    Good luck.

    Thread Starter cyiesla

    (@cyiesla)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for your reply! I’ll look into that plugin. Do you know if just straight installing wordpress through Midphase will overwrite the old drupal file structure or do I need to replace everything manually?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 4 months ago

    I don’t know what “midphase” is or what it does.

    I would build a clean, empty WP site then attempt to move over the uploads and export/import the database. Then spend a lot of time trying to get the functionality right and have it look good with a functional theme.

    Thread Starter cyiesla

    (@cyiesla)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Midphase is the hosting service my client uses (I hadn’t heard of it either until this project). They have the option to install WP on our site already and I was curious if anyone had ever done that before when moving from an existing engine (like drupal). Between drupal and Midphase, there are alot of unknowns for me, so I’m trying to do my due diligence and research thoroughly before I start shuffling databases around. As far as the workflow you’ve described outside of that in your replies – it seems quite sound 🙂

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