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Reasons to Migrate Your Website from Drupal to WordPress

Technologies are constantly advancing, meaning its old versions become outdated and insecure. To keep up with the ever-evolving digital landscape, it is crucial to monitor digital trends and update software regularly. Choosing a robust and reliable Content Management System (CMS) for your website is crucial for business success. The website’s functionality, performance, and user experience directly depend on the choice of CMS.

Over time, it is common for one software to surpass another in capabilities, meaning that it’s time to migrate your website from one Content Management System to another. While the idea of website migration might sound challenging and complex at first, it is a standard and flawless process in the world of web development.

As of 2025, Drupal and WordPress CMSs are leading the market. While both platforms offer their own set of advantages and disadvantages, there are situations where migrating the Drupal site to WordPress could be a more beneficial solution. Today, Drupfan experts explain when and why the migration from Drupal to WordPress is recommended. Stay tuned!

By Joe Black - 6 minutes - 15 May 2025
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Drupal 7 End of Life

Drupal 7 has officially reached its end of life on January 5, 2025. This means Drupal 7 is no longer supported after January 5, 2025. The EOL applies to the cessation of the core, security, and module updates, as well as bug fixes and release of the new features. Thus, any site that will be still running on the outdated Drupal 7 version will become a target of cyber attacks, facing numerous security and data leak risks. What’s more, such websites will encounter compatibility issues when integrating newer versions of web services into the platform. Such discrepancies will significantly decrease the operational capabilities and impact the user experience in a bad manner, resulting in a loss of audience engagement, poor sales, diminished trust, and a degradation in the overall website effectiveness. Therefore, it becomes essential for business owners whose websites are built on Drupal 7 to consider migrating to an equally robust CMS, such as WordPress. WordPress can do everything Drupal is capable of but remains a more user-friendly choice.

Learn about pitfalls of staying on Drupal 7 after its end-of-life in our recent blog post.

More Reasons to Migrate a Website from Drupal to WordPress

If unsupported Drupal 7 isn't enough to convince you to migrate your website to WordPress, let's explore some other key reasons why making the switch to WordPress could be beneficial for your business.

  • Ease of Use: WordPress is a more user-friendly CMS and can be operated even by a user with zero coding skills.
  • Diverse Plugin Ecosystem: WordPress offers an extensive library of plugins to fulfill any use case or requirement.
  • Pre-built Themes: unlike Drupal which requires custom styling, WordPress provides a wide array of themes for websites across industries that can be further customized to be compliant with your brand’s identity.

What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of WordPress?

WordPress is an open-source CMS launched two decades ago — in 2003 — which currently powers 43% of the web. WordPress is a choice of global enterprises worldwide, including but not limited to TechCrunch, TED Blog, and the New York Times Company. WordPress is a highly customizable and flexible CMS that offers 30,000+ themes and 55,000+ plugins for creating unique digital experiences.

Advantages of the WordPress CMS:

  • Numerous free themes and plugins for web development;
  • Provides eCommerce functionality;
  • Mobile-friendly;
  • SEO-friendly;
  • Cost-effective;
  • Accessible.

Disadvantages of the WordPress CMS:

  • Includes premium (paid) themes and plugins for more unique digital experiences;
  • Frequent updates are required.

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Service Overview: Migrating Your Website from Drupal to WordPress

Let’s take a brief overview of the WordPress migration services from Drupfan.

01 - Planning the scope

Before starting any migration processes, the team at Drupfan thoroughly analyzes the old site to design a new data structure for all the content, determine equivalents for recreating functionality on WordPress, as well as create a scheme of dependencies.

02 - Website backup

Before the beginning of any migration process, we also manually create a full backup of your website (data, files, and code). Thus, in case of an emergency, we’ll be able to quickly restore the missing data or the whole website.

03 - Transfer

We smoothly move your website from Drupal to WordPress with zero downtime. During the migration process, our experts test and double-check the website’s functionality, content relationships, and users’ info. Don’t worry: not even a piece of information will be lost.

04 - Set up & Testing

We configure all settings and thoroughly retest your new website for any errors or bugs. High-quality service is our priority. We never leave any vulnerabilities or bugs in the production environment.

Hire Drupfan Web Developers for WordPress Migration Services

Migrating a Drupal website to WordPress might be an efficient and strategic business step that not only offers various advantages for the enhancement of your digital presence but also helps your business to adapt to the evolving digital landscape. When you opt to migrate from Drupal to WordPress, you get an improved user experience, higher engagement, and access to the vast array of plugins and themes for extending website functionality.

Drupfan specialists possess extensive expertise in WordPress development and are available for businesses worldwide to implement the entire step-by-step WordPress migration process from Drupal. Contact us today to request a free quote on your project.