Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 Migration: Navigate the Upgrade Path
Drupal 7 reached end-of-life, but migration doesn't have to be painful. We guide organizations through complex Drupal upgrades with proven methodologies, transparent communication, and realistic timelines, backed by 18+ years of Drupal migration experience.
Comprehensive Planning
Thorough content audit, custom module evaluation, and risk assessment before touching production. Detailed migration roadmap with realistic timelines.
Content Preservation
Migrate your content, taxonomy, users, and files with data integrity. Handle edge cases, resolve conflicts, and validate completeness.
Custom Module Modernization
Evaluate custom code for Drupal 10 compatibility. Refactor, replace, or rebuild custom functionality using modern best practices.
Minimal Disruption
Staged migration approach that keeps your current site running until cutover. Thorough testing and rollback planning for risk mitigation.
The Drupal 7 End-of-Life Reality
Drupal 7 served organizations well for over a decade, but continued use poses increasing security risks, compatibility issues, and technical debt. Modern Drupal 10 offers significant improvements: better editor experience, improved performance, enhanced security, and a sustainable upgrade path forward. But getting from Drupal 7 to 10 requires more than clicking an update button.
Unlike point releases, Drupal 7 to 10 migration is essentially a rebuild. Content must be migrated, themes reimplemented, custom modules refactored or replaced, and workflows reconsidered. This presents both challenges and opportunities, the chance to address long standing pain points and modernize your entire web platform.
Our Drupal Migration Process
- Discovery & Assessment: Complete audit of your Drupal 7 site including content inventory, module analysis, custom code review, and integration mapping
- Migration Strategy: Detailed plan covering architecture decisions, module replacements, content migration approach, and cutover strategy
- Development Environment: Setup of Drupal 10 instance, theme development, module configuration, and custom functionality implementation
- Content Migration: Automated migration of content, taxonomy, users, and files with validation and error handling
- Testing & QA: Comprehensive testing of migrated content, functionality, integrations, and user workflows
- Training & Handoff: Editor training on Drupal 10 improvements, documentation of changes, and post-launch support
Common Migration Challenges We Solve
Every Drupal 7 site is unique, but migration challenges follow patterns: custom modules built years ago by developers long gone, complex view configurations that no one fully understands, integrations with third-party services that may have changed APIs, and content structures that evolved organically but lack coherent information architecture.
We approach these challenges systematically. Custom modules get evaluated for business value; some can be replaced by contributed modules, others need refactoring, and occasionally the functionality is no longer necessary. Views get rebuilt using modern Drupal 10 patterns. Integrations get updated or reimplemented. Content structures get rationalized based on current needs, not historical accidents.
Beyond Basic Migration
Smart organizations use Drupal migration as an opportunity for broader improvements. This is the ideal time to implement a design system, improve accessibility, optimize performance, modernize editorial workflows, and establish better governance. We help you identify these opportunities during discovery so your migration investment delivers maximum value.
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Let's discuss how we can help modernize your web presence and deliver measurable results for your organization.