Drupal Migration

Does your Drupal 7 site need to migrate? Get ready to move to Drupal 11

Is your site still running on Drupal 7? bluedrop.fr, a web agency specializing in Drupal, supports you from technical auditing to migration to a modern version of Drupal, with particular attention to your site's security, SEO, accessibility, and performance.

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Why migrate a Drupal 7 site?

Since January 5, 2025, Drupal 7 is no longer supported by the Drupal community and no longer receives official security updates. As a result, you are exposed to significant security risks. The end of life of Drupal 7 is an opportunity to move away from an obsolete technical foundation and move to Drupal 11 :

  • Secure your site  : Switch to an actively maintained version of Drupal and benefit from a secure technical foundation.
  • Reduce technical debt  : Identify modules and custom developments that have become unnecessary, obsolete, or difficult to maintain.
  • Upgrade your site  : Take advantage of the migration to improve UX, performance, accessibility, SEO, or the contributor experience.

Our support for your Drupal 7 migration

Migrating a Drupal 7 site is not simply a matter of performing an update. The gap between Drupal 7 and modern versions of Drupal requires analyzing the current setup, preparing data migration, reviewing certain features, and rebuilding the theme. Our role is to turn this technical complexity into a clear and manageable roadmap.

Migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 11: The Complete Guide

1. Technical audit

We map out your site: content, modules, custom developments, data, integrations, SEO, and infrastructure. Objective: to know exactly what needs to be kept, rebuilt, improved, or abandoned.

2. Define the strategy

We define the migration scope with you and the changes to be integrated into the new project.

3. Build the new site

We are rebuilding the Drupal foundation and the necessary features, relying as much as possible on native functionalities and compatible modules.

4. Migrate your data

We prepare and automate the migration of content, media, users, taxonomies, and other data necessary for the project. Intermediate migrations allow us to check data quality before going live.

5. Preserve your SEO

We anticipate URL changes, redirects, metadata, internal linking, and indexing. SEO is integrated into the project from the migration design stage, not checked at the last minute.

6. Test and deploy to production

We organize the final validation, functional and technical testing, then prepare the switch to the new site. The goal: a well-managed launch and a transition with minimal interruption.

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A Drupal 7 migration is also an opportunity to improve your site

Preserve and develop SEO

Take advantage of the migration to streamline the site's technical and editorial structure.

Facilitate administration

Provide editorial teams with simpler and better-suited tools for their needs.

Improve performance

Optimize the front-end, media, caching, and the various components of the site.

Improve the user experience

Simplify the user journeys and make the site more efficient on both desktop and mobile.

Enhance accessibility

Integrate accessibility requirements right from the design and development stages.

Reduce the environmental footprint

Integrate eco-design principles into the design and development of the new site.

The Drupal 7 migration of IRP AUTO: Technical migration, data transfer, and graphic redesign

IRP AUTO entrusted us with the migration of its public website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10, in a complex technical context and with a tight schedule. After a thorough audit, we rebuilt a new Drupal 10 instance and ensured the migration of content, users, files, and configurations. We also ported custom modules, restored the URLs, and integrated SEO requirements. The project also included rebuilding the theme in Twig, with a subtle graphic update without drastically changing the existing design. The content migration was automated to minimize data loss, then the site was tested and deployed in IRP AUTO's CI/CD environment.

Read the IRP Auto case study: Migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 11

IRP AUTO's feedback on migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10

All our customer feedback

"When we entrusted Bluedrop Agency with upgrading our public site from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10, it was far from a sure thing. In just a few months, the agency perfectly met this challenge which, beyond the technical aspects, required the automatic migration of most of our content and a graphical refresh that respected the existing look. Congratulations to the whole team for their attentiveness, availability, dedication, and their ability to offer us solutions!"

Samira Person User Project Manager, IRP Auto
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FAQ — Choosing an Agency to Migrate Your Drupal 7 Site

A Drupal 7 migration often involves specific modules, legacy developments, and a complex data structure. A specialized Drupal agency understands these issues and can anticipate the challenges related to migration.

Yes. Specific developments are analyzed one by one to determine whether they should be adapted, rebuilt, replaced, or abandoned.

No. A migration can be carried out with limited graphical changes. It can also be combined with a UX/UI redesign if that meets your objectives.

Yes. bluedrop.fr also offers services for maintenance, security, TMA and Drupal upgrades after going live.

A poorly prepared migration can indeed lead to a loss of visibility. We therefore incorporate SEO issues into the project preparation: URLs, redirects, content, metadata, linking, indexing, and post-launch monitoring.