Drupal to WordPress migration

  • Mark

    (@skilettings)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I had a website running Drupal on another host, so copied all the page text, URL, title and description with the intention of moving to a new host running WordPress. The plan being that I would replicate the same URLs in wordpress with the same content, titles and description.

    During the 1-click install WordPress forced me to install to a subfolder, but let me place the blog on the homepage. I don’t have a blog on the site, so created a number of pages. The problem is that they all show the subfolder and editing the permalink for the page won’t let me remove the reference to the subfolder.

    I ended up messing the site up completely by deleting subfolder from the permalink settings, but I’ve already reinstalled twice, so don’t mind doing it again.

    Can anyone help?

    Thanks,

    Mark

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  • Jordi Cabot

    (@softmodeling)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Is it impossible to create the WP site in the root folder instead of in a subfolder?

    Regardeless of this, it’s not always possible to clone the Drupal URL structure in WordPress (Drupal allows more complex options than the predefined URL patterns possible in wordpress) but this should not be the goal. Your goal should be that all people accessing the site using the old Drupal URLs are redirected to the corresponding WordPress ones. As long as you use 301 redirections for doing this your SEO will not be affected (either using the redirection plug-in or directly in the .htaccess file if you cannot avoid installing the WP site in a subfolder).

    And if you would like to have professional help you can always check: http://migratetowp.com

    Christi Nickerson

    (@christini)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Skilettings,

    softmodeling is correct on the use of 301 redirects, that is the best way to let visitors and search engines know your pages have moved.

    I’m curious about WordPress not installing to the main document root folder. Make sure you didn’t install WordPress twice or accidentally install something else into that folder. The automated install scripts can be pretty picky, something as simple as an .htaccess file already in the directory can prevent you from installing into the document root. If all else fails, contact your web host and ask theme to take a look at it for you.

    Hope this helps!

    James-P

    (@james-p)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve converted my Drupal to WordPress a few days ago, and I was thinking about my Drupal pages status in Google, that’s hard to handle redirection for each Drupal page.
    I scoured the internet for conversion of these and, in the end, opted to use gConverter LLC services. And wow! what they did? they kept all my new WordPress post’s URLs exact the same 🙂 I was shocked, perfect solution! This means that google and other search engines will find my new WordPress posts without even redirecting, this is the most important think to save site’s Google page rank.
    For the price, this servise is a godsend! This guys are really professionals, all Drupal content types, taxonomies, users … was migrated to WordPress perfectly.

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