Move your Drupal site
to a headless stack.
We move Drupal sites onto DatoCMS or Storyblok.Your URL aliases stay intact, your multilingual content carries over, and the paragraph-type sprawl gets normalized on the way through. If you are on Drupal 7, you are facing a rebuild either way. This one ends somewhere that does not schedule the next.
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Drupal worked. For a different era.
Drupal solved problems that mattered ten years ago. Structured content, fine-grained permissions, multilingual at scale. It still solves them, and the upgrade story has genuinely improved. Going from Drupal 10 to 11 is a Composer command and a dependency audit. The split runs between versions. Drupal 7 lost support on 5 January 2025, and Drupal's documentation says plainly that an update cannot be applied to an existing 6 or 7 site, only migrated into a new one. If that is where you are, the rebuild you were quoted is real. The open question is what you rebuild onto. This is one path through our wider headless migration practice. We run the same playbook for teams leaving TYPO3 and WordPress.
Drupal 7 offers no update path at all. Drupal's own guide says the content has to be migrated into a new site. That is a rebuild, whatever the quote calls it.
Drupal 10 hits end of life in December 2026 and Drupal 12 ships that same week. Staying supported means budgeting for a major version every couple of years, indefinitely.
Paragraph types proliferated and now nobody knows which one to use for what.
Custom modules were written by people who left the agency three contracts ago.
Multi-site setups share a codebase that nobody dares touch.
Routine page changes still route through a developer because the admin was locked down years ago and nobody in-house was ever trained back into it.
The Reality
Most Drupal sites are not stuck because the content is complex. They are stuck because the tooling has aged around the content. Replatforming separates the two.
What Survives the Move
Your structured content comes along.
Drupal's strength is structured content, and that is the part worth preserving. Nodes, taxonomy, translations, aliases all carry over. The migration only changes the platform. The content model your editors already know stays in place.
Your content
every node, every revision history that matters, every taxonomy term. Exported through JSON:API or a direct database read.
Your URL aliases
Pathauto patterns, manual aliases, redirect module entries. All of it gets mapped before launch.
Your taxonomy
vocabularies, hierarchies, and term references translate into structured fields in the new CMS.
Your multilingual content
language-aware nodes and translations move into native multi-locale content with proper hreflang.
Your media library
files and images move to a CDN with proper derivatives. The image styles you set up in Drupal's Image module, and any Responsive Image breakpoint mappings layered on them, come across as CDN transforms.
What Changes
The platform layer goes away.
Most of what makes a Drupal site hard to maintain is platform plumbing. Views, custom modules, the Field UI, cron jobs. They go away. What replaces them is built around how editors and developers actually want to work.
Paragraphs
become a small set of well-defined blocks. We normalize the sprawl rather than copying it. Your editors stop guessing which paragraph type to pick.
Views
are replaced by API queries on the frontend. Editors still get filtered listings, but the configuration lives next to the page that uses it.
Custom modules
either get rebuilt as API endpoints, replaced by features built into the new CMS, or dropped if nobody uses them anymore.
The admin
is gone. There is no Field UI to configure, no Configuration Manager to sync, and no module list to audit. Editors get a CMS designed for editors.
PHP, the database, and cron
go away. Drupal runs on MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite, and after the move you maintain none of them. The new site is static or server-rendered, served from a CDN.
How It Works
The migration process
Audit and content model
We export the database and walk through every content type, every paragraph type, every Views configuration, every custom module. Then we design the content model around what your editors and visitors actually use. You approve the model before development starts.
Migrate, normalize, rebuild
We export content through JSON:API or read the database directly, depending on the version and the schema. Paragraph sprawl is normalized into a smaller block set. The frontend is built in Astro, with content models in DatoCMS or Storyblok. Multilingual content is mapped to native multi-locale fields with hreflang in place from day one.
Cutover and 30 days of watching
We launch on a low-traffic window, swap DNS, and monitor Search Console, Analytics, and Core Web Vitals for 30 days. Drupal stays running as a fallback during the watch window. Multi-site setups cut over per site on a schedule we agree up front.
A note on multi-site
Multi-site is usually two problems pretending to be one.
Half the sites share content models and visual identity. Half of them really do not. We separate them at the audit stage. The ones that belong together get a single content space with regional variants. The ones that do not get clean splits with their own pipelines.
Start with an auditPricing
Fixed price, no scope creep
Drupal migrations vary in scope more than most. A 100-page corporate site with three languages and a clean install is one thing. A multi-site setup with a decade of custom modules is another. The ranges below are where typical projects land. Once we scope yours, you get a fixed quote.
Full audit of your Drupal install, modules, and content
Content model rebuilt and paragraph sprawl normalized
URL alias map covering Pathauto and manual aliases
Content migration through JSON:API or direct database read
Frontend in Astro, CMS in DatoCMS or Storyblok
Multilingual with hreflang from day one
30 days of post-launch monitoring
Same team stays accountable for the system
Performance and uptime monitored continuously
Content and component changes handled monthly
All prices are net, excluding applicable VAT.
Who This Is For
Who this is for
This works well if you
Run a Drupal 7 site and the upgrade quote came back as a rebuild anyway
Run a Drupal 10 site heading for its 9 December 2026 end of life, or a Drupal 9 site that lost support back in 2023, and want off the major-version cycle
Manage a multi-site Drupal install and want to consolidate or split it cleanly
Have large content volumes and need a content model that does not collapse under its own paragraph types
Want editors to stop filing developer tickets for routine page changes
Need a fixed-price migration with a clear scope, not a time-and-materials open-ended project
This is not a fit if you
Run a government or regulated site with hard requirements that depend on Drupal-specific modules. Talk to us first
Use Drupal as a data hub with custom backend logic that needs to stay on Drupal. The frontend can still go headless, scope is different
Have a small Drupal site where the cost of migration outweighs the gain
Are not sure yet what the right move is. Start with a Headless Audit
Need a new build from scratch with no legacy content. See Headless Website