Drupal to WordPress Migration · Derby
Drupal to WordPress Migration in Derby
Moving Derby organisations from Drupal to WordPress, where the difficulty is that Drupal models content more richly than WordPress does by default. Content types with structured fields, taxonomies and relationships have to be recreated rather than imported — and flattening them carelessly loses the structure that made the site maintainable.
Why this comes up
The problem
Content is held in eight custom types with structured fields, and the import produced eight hundred generic pages.
What you get
What we deliver
- Content types mapped to post types and fields before any import runs
- Taxonomies and relationships preserved rather than flattened into tags
- Views recreated as queries or archive templates in the new site
- Users and roles migrated with permissions reviewed, not copied blindly
- URL aliases mapped, since Drupal paths rarely match WordPress conventions
- Media migrated with references rewritten to point at the new library
Want this scoped for your business in Derby?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what drupal to wordpress migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Derby
East Midlands
Derby is an engineering city — aerospace, rail and automotive supply chains — so the work here skews toward integration with existing plant systems, quality and compliance workflows, and reporting that has to stand up to audit.
Most work here involves connecting shop-floor and plant systems to reporting the rest of the business can actually read, plus quality and compliance workflows that have to survive an audit.
Sectors we work with in Derby
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Aerospace
- Rail Engineering
- Automotive
- Logistics
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- WordPress
- Drupal
- PHP
- MySQL
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Public sector
- Education
- Charities
- Healthcare
- Membership organisations
Why us
Why Derby businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Drupal to WordPress Migration in Derby — common questions
- Why is the content model the hard part?
- Because Drupal's is more expressive. Content types with defined fields and relationships between entities are ordinary there and require deliberate construction in WordPress — so an import that ignores the model produces pages with all the text and none of the structure.
- What replaces Views?
- Custom queries or archive templates. Views generate listings from content criteria, and WordPress has no equivalent interface, so each listing on the old site needs identifying and rebuilding — this is routinely underestimated because the pages look simple.
- Should we move at all?
- Where the site's requirements are editorial and the difficulty is finding Drupal developers, frequently yes. Where the value sits in structured content, workflow and permissions, Drupal may be doing something WordPress would need considerable work to reproduce.
- How are URLs handled?
- By exporting the alias list and mapping it. Drupal sites often carry carefully maintained paths accumulated over years, and these rarely match what WordPress produces naturally — so the redirect map is built from the actual aliases rather than generated from titles.
- Do you work with businesses across Derbyshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout East Midlands, including Derby and the surrounding Derbyshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Derby businesses do you usually work with?
- Most work here involves connecting shop-floor and plant systems to reporting the rest of the business can actually read, plus quality and compliance workflows that have to survive an audit. Beyond that we work across Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace, Rail Engineering, Automotive and Logistics.
- Do you cover the areas around Derby?
- Yes — we work throughout East Midlands, including Nottingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Birmingham. Derby is an urban area of roughly 260,000+, and we take on work across the wider Derbyshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Drupal to WordPress Migration in Derby
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise