Drupal to WordPress Migration · Reading
Drupal to WordPress Migration in Reading
Moving Reading 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 Reading?
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 Reading
South East
Reading anchors the Thames Valley technology corridor, and local firms are often part of large enterprise supply chains where security review and integration standards are set by someone else.
Work here usually has to satisfy someone else's security and integration standards, because clients sit inside larger enterprise supply chains.
Sectors we work with in Reading
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Financial Services
- Professional Services
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 Reading 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 Reading — 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 Berkshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South East, including Reading and the surrounding Berkshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Reading businesses do you usually work with?
- Work here usually has to satisfy someone else's security and integration standards, because clients sit inside larger enterprise supply chains. Beyond that we work across Technology, Telecommunications, Financial Services and Professional Services.
- Do you cover the areas around Reading?
- Yes — we work throughout South East, including Oxford, London, Milton Keynes, Southampton. Reading is an urban area of roughly 340,000+, and we take on work across the wider Berkshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Drupal to WordPress Migration in Reading
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