From Drupal to WordPress the Ultimate Guide

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FROM DRUPAL TO WORDPRESS-THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
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DRUPAL TO WORDPRESS-THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
FROM DRUPAL TO WORDPRESS-THE ULTIMATE GUIDEWith
the unmatched popularity of WordPress because of
its ease of use and flexibility it offers due to
the numerous themes and plugins that come with
it, more and more people have moved or are moving
their website from Drupal to WordPress. While
its quite easy to decide whether you want to
migrate your Drupal website to WordPress, the
actual process is not that simple. This article
discusses how to smoothly switch your website to
WordPress irrespective of how complex your
existing website might be.
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Moving Content to WordPress

• Once you have installed WordPress and have the
  theme ready.
• All the pages, posts, users, categories, tags,
  etc., needs to be migrated to your new site.
• Drupal is a more flexible content management
  system than WordPress.

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Content Types and Fields

• With the use of the standard CKK module it
  becomes quite simple.
• With the use of the standard CKK module it
  becomes quite simple and uncomplicated to create
  custom types and fields in Drupal.
• In both the methods, the custom field values have
  to be first retrieved from Drupal.

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URL Mapping

• Compared to WordPress, the URL structure allowed
  in Drupal is more flexible.
• Unlike WordPress, it can be defined at the node
  level.
• It is, therefore, difficult to maintain the same
  URL while cloning the posts and pages.

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Users and Roles

• In a Drupal website you can define an unlimited
  number of roles.
• Also, user profiles in Drupal can be as long as
  you want it to be.
• If you wish to go over to the default WordPress
  information field.

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Multilingual Support

• Drupal has a standard module to create
  multilingual websites.
• Though WordPress doesnt have any standard
  feature to create multilingual websites.
• There are several plugins to strengthen its
  multilingual competencies.

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