A Quick Migration of WordPress to Drupal 8

I recently discussed a DIRECT workflow for migrating WordPress to Drupal 8.  

That process assumes you want to install WordPress on your local computer. But, remember that WordPress, being a CMS like Drupal, also requires Apache, mySQL and PHP.  Below I'll show you how to get that local WordPress environment setup.  BUT, the thought of setting up a new development environment for Wordpress might make you cringe, especially if you love Drupal the way I do.  If so, skip that part, you really don...


Migrate Organic Groups Membership

In a previous blog, we discussed Function1’s latest Drupal project: migrating a Jive system running on PostgreSQL database to Drupal.  The target Drupal site was using the Organic Groups module to organize content (the usual node types: blog, story, page, discussion, etc.) in Spaces (the Organic Group lingo for a “Group”). In migrating content to Drupal we used the migrate module. Adding space/group memberships was a...


Jive to Drupal Migration

Recently, Function1 was engaged to perform a Jive migration project to Drupal 7 and specifically the Open Atrium 2.0 distribution since Jive is a communication and collaboration platform. As a team, we are familiar with Open Atrium and have used it few times on multiple projects and know its different content types. The challenge was in grabbing the data from the PostgreSQL database, which had close to 300 tables, and formulating the data source to map to the target Open Atrium content types.

In performing the migration, we extended the Drupal Migrate...


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