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Migrate from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico with precision & ease

A seamless, customizable migration solution for moving your Drupal data with perfect fidelity and minimal disruption.

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Last updated November 2026

COMPLETE COVERAGE

Intelligent Human-Verified Data Mapping

Our migration engineer precisely maps every data point from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico, ensuring perfect continuity for your customer support operations.

Drupal
Xperience by Kentico
Node (Content)
Pages (Web Pages)
Content Type (Node Type)
Content Types (Page Types)
User
Custom Module Data (Object Instances)
Taxonomy Term
Taxonomy Tags
Taxonomy Vocabulary
Taxonomies (Tag Groups)
Media
Media Library Files
File
Media Library Files
Role
Roles
Webform
Form Definitions
Webform Submission
Custom Module Data (Object Instances)
Paragraph
Content Items
Redirect
Custom Module / Redirect Handler / IIS/Web.config Rules
Path Alias
Web Page Items
Menu
Custom Module Data (Object Instances)

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CUSTOM MIGRATION

Fully customizable engineer-led migration

Tailor your migration from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico exactly to your needs with our flexible customization options. Our experts will configure the perfect migration plan for your business.

Migration Filters

Publication Status

Filter by published, draft, scheduled, or archived content

Section/Category

Select specific sections, categories, or collections to migrate

Language & Locale

Migrate specific language versions or localized content only

Time Range

Migrate content created or updated within a specific period

Data Types

Posts & Pages

Articles, pages, and custom post types with full body and metadata

Media & Attachments

Images, videos, PDFs, and downloadable assets with references

Taxonomies & Menus

Categories, tags, custom taxonomies, and navigation menus

Templates & Redirects

Page templates, custom fields, and URL redirect rules

ZERO DOWNTIME

Your timeline. Our engineers.

A dedicated engineer runs your migration, planned around your schedule and your data.

No babysitting a wizard. Avoid debugging errors yourself.

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Speed

The migration timeline depends on both our turnaround time and yours.

We can complete a migration in under a day when the accounts are connected and the sample migration is approved promptly.

Background Sync

We also support migrating the newest records first, so you can go live faster while the rest of the data is synced in the background.

Data Volume Impact

Larger data volumes may require longer migration windows.

Continuous Operation

Weekend migrations minimize disruption to your customer service operations.

MIGRATION TIMELINE

Your Drupal to Xperience by Kentico migration, step by step

See how long your migration will take from start to finish. Drag the slider to estimate based on your data volume.

How many records are you migrating?

<10K 50K 100K 250K 500K 1M 2M 5M 10M+
Checklist ~3 days
Sample 1 day
Review ~2 days
Full 2 days
Delta 1 day
Your team ClonePartner

Estimated total

~9 business days

1

Migration Checklist

1 day · ClonePartner ~2 days · Your team

We prepare the optimal data mapping as a shareable spreadsheet. Your team reviews, approves, and adds any customizations.

2

Sample Migration

1 day · ClonePartner

We run a test migration with a representative sample of your data to verify mapping accuracy and identify any potential issues before the full run.

3

Review & Approve

~2 days · Your team

Your team reviews the sample migration results, confirms data accuracy and mapping, and gives the go-ahead for the full migration.

4

Full Migration

2 days · ClonePartner

We execute the complete migration of all your data to your new Xperience by Kentico, with real-time progress tracking and comprehensive logging.

5

Delta Migration

1 day · ClonePartner

We capture and transfer any new data that was added or updated during the main migration to ensure no data is lost. This final sync keeps everything current.

Related Guides

Pros and cons of different migration options

Choosing the right approach is key because migrating from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico isn't just about moving data – it's about protecting your content, SEO, and reader experience.

Feature / Criteria ClonePartner Automated Tools CSV Import In-house migration
Custom Scripting for complex data ✓ Engineers build & maintain ✗ No ⚠ Manual ✓ Yes – but costly
Sandbox & Pilot Migrations ✓ Full sandbox + pilot plans ⚠ Limited ✗ No ⚠ Often Informal
Manual validation & reconciliation ✓ Automated + manual QA ✗ No ✓ Yes (Manual) ✓ Heavy manual effort
Backup & rollback plan ✓ Robust procedures ✗ No ✗ No ⚠ Often incomplete
Handles automation and integrations ✓ Full support ⚠ Partial ✗ No ⚠ Possible but fragmented
Post-migration engineer support ✓ Dedicated engineers ✗ No ✗ No ⚠ Limited support
Adaptable to API changes ✓ Proactive adaptation ✗ No ⚠ Manual fixes ⚠ Slower response
Turnaround / timeline predictability ✓ Predictable timelines ⚠ Fast but brittle ⚠ Slow and manual ⚠ Often slower
Data Security & Compliance ✓ High – enterprise grade ⚠ Medium (depends) ⚠ Low (manual) ⚠ Hidden gaps common
Pricing predictability ✓ Transparent & fixed ⚠ Low (per-job) ⚠ Low (manual hours) ⚠ High/variable OPEX
End-to-end project management ✓ Full E2E delivery & PM ✗ No ✗ No ⚠ Often partial
Business impact & opportunity cost ✓ No diversion of staff ✗ No ✗ No ⚠ Diverts engineering

What does an Engineer-led migration mean anyway?

Speed & Accuracy: Our Blended Method

We blend automation (smart scripts, bulk APIs) with human expertise for speed without risk. Our engineers manually check every mapping, validation, and exception.

You get:

  1. Speed of automation for bulk record migration
  2. Precision of engineers verifying integrity and business logic
  3. Pilot migrations and sandbox testing to catch issues early
  4. Real-time validation reports and rollback readiness
Result: 50x faster migrations than manual imports — with near-zero error rates.

Handling the Tricky Tech and API Details

The Drupal and Xperience by Kentico APIs each behave differently, which is where our engineers shine. We build custom logic to handle the data quirks where generic tools typically break.

We handcraft API logic for:

  1. Field mapping and transformation
  2. Pagination, rate-limit handling, and throttling
  3. Preserving content relationships, media, and revision history
  4. Syncing custom fields, taxonomies, and templates without breaking structure
Our scripts: Natively retry failed calls, re-queue large attachments, and ensure data parity.

No Guesswork

We don't just promise smooth migrations—we measure and prove them. Every client receives a Migration Validation Report with all metrics.

Typical results across projects:

  1. 100% record-count parity between your Drupal data and Xperience by Kentico
  2. Zero downtime during staged cutovers
  3. 99.9% attachment integrity (verified via checksum)
  4. Full automation and preservation of all business rules
Our standard: Includes full SEO and redirect preservation and 30 days of engineer-assigned support post go-live.

We Adapt to Your Setup (Not the Other Way Around)

No two teams configure Drupal or Xperience by Kentico exactly the same way—with unique content models and data. We customize every migration script to fit your exact workflow, taxonomies, and templates.

Our engineers adapt for:

  1. Custom fields, content types, and workflows
  2. Multi-site or multi-language setups
  3. Historical imports and partial (date-based) migrations
  4. Integration re-mapping for search, analytics, or forms tools
The promise: If your data doesn't fit a standard template, we build one just for you.

Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance

Your customer data is precious. Our migration process maintains the highest standards of security and regulatory compliance.

SOC 2 Type II

Independently audited compliance with rigorous security standards

ISO 27001

Certified information security management system

GDPR

Full compliance with EU data protection regulations

HIPAA

Certified for handling protected health information

AES-256 Encryption

Bank-grade encryption for all stored credentials

Latest TLS

Secure transfer protocol for all data in transit

Role-Based Access

We follow role-based access control for every migration project

Scheduled Deletion

Automatic data purging after migration completion

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about migrating from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico. Can't find what you're looking for? Talk to our team.

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Drupal → Xperience by Kentico

5 questions
What happens to Drupal users and passwords during the migration?
Drupal user accounts cannot be moved to Xperience by Kentico as a native user object; they are instead stored as custom module object instances, so a custom module must be defined in XbK before migration begins. More critically, Drupal password hashes cannot be exported or re-imported in any usable form, and XbK does not accept hashed passwords via its Management API. Every user will need to reset their password after the migration; ClonePartner migrates all other profile fields but cannot carry credentials across.
How are Drupal Paragraphs handled in Xperience by Kentico, and will any data be lost?
Paragraphs do not have a direct equivalent in XbK and are mapped as reusable content items via a workaround. Because Drupal paragraph entities are tightly coupled to their parent nodes, they must be extracted and imported in the correct relational order (parent node first, then the paragraph content items) before the references can be re-linked. Field types from contributed Paragraph modules may not serialize correctly if the corresponding Drupal module is absent from the export environment, so we confirm module availability during scoping to avoid silent data loss.
How are Drupal redirects migrated when Xperience by Kentico has no built-in redirect module?
XbK has no native redirect management UI equivalent to Drupal's Redirect module, so redirects require one of three approaches depending on how the team wants to manage them going forward. The most common path is exporting all rows from Drupal's redirect table (source path, destination path, status code) and converting them into IIS URL Rewrite rules in web.config or CDN-level rules in Cloudflare or Azure Front Door, no XbK customization needed and no runtime overhead. If editors need to manage redirects inside the CMS admin after launch, we can seed a custom XbK module object with SourcePath, TargetPath, StatusCode, and IsActive fields paired with ASP.NET Core middleware that intercepts requests before they reach the CMS router. ClonePartner migrates the redirect data; which approach is used depends on decisions your development team makes during the wider replatform project.
Which Drupal API does ClonePartner use to read content, and what version or module do we need?
ClonePartner reads content through Drupal's JSON:API, which is included in Drupal core from version 8.7 onward and requires no additional module installation for that range. All JSON:API read operations require an authenticated user with appropriate permissions; anonymous read access is not sufficient for a full migration. Structural configuration entities (content types, field definitions, and Views) are not reliably portable via JSON:API and are best handled through Drupal's config sync YAML export; ClonePartner accounts for this split during scoping. If your site uses contributed modules with custom field types, those modules must be present and enabled in the source environment for fields to serialize correctly.
Will migrated pages and content items be live in Xperience by Kentico immediately after import?
No. XbK defaults all imported content items to Draft state; nothing is publicly visible until a publish action is triggered. ClonePartner can trigger the publish call via the Management API as part of the migration run for items that were published in Drupal, but this must be agreed during scoping. Additionally, URL aliases from Drupal are carried over as path settings on the web page item level, so canonical URLs should be verified in XbK after import to confirm they resolved correctly.

Before you start

4 questions
Do I need professional help for this migration?
Yes. Professional help ensures proper field mapping and preservation of relationships between records. Our engineer-led approach catches edge cases that automated tools miss.
Does ClonePartner provide guidance before committing?
Yes. We provide a free consultation and assessment. We'll review your data structure, discuss your requirements, and provide a detailed migration plan and fixed-price quote before you commit to anything.
Do you use an off-the-shelf tool to migrate from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico, or is this built for our data?
It is built for your data. Each migration is a set of custom scripts written for your data model, not a generic import tool. That is also why we start with a sample migration: you see your own records in Xperience by Kentico before the full migration is committed.
Can we see a sample of our Drupal data migrated to Xperience by Kentico before the full migration runs?
Yes. We run a sample migration on your own data first, so you can review how your records look in Xperience by Kentico before the full migration goes ahead. We run validation scripts to confirm the record counts match your source, and you check the sample against your source records; if a field is missing or mapped wrong, or anything else needs adjusting, we fix it in the migration scripts and re-run the sample as many times as you need. The full migration only runs after you've approved the sample. On projects delivered in phases, each phase gets its own sample migration for you to approve.

Data & mapping

7 questions
Will original ownership, authorship and created dates be preserved?
Yes. Created-time metadata is carried across, and ownership and authorship are carried across where the original users are set up in Xperience by Kentico. Where Xperience by Kentico cannot store one of them natively, it is kept as embedded metadata on the migrated record.
If the new system can't natively support an old record type, what are my options?
We handle it case by case. While mapping your data, we identify every record type without a direct counterpart in Xperience by Kentico, review sample records from it and propose how it can be represented, based on what Xperience by Kentico supports: map it to the closest native object, create a custom field or object, fold it into the parent record as text or a note, attach it as a file, or keep it in a read-only archive. You choose the approach, we write the migration scripts to place the data there, so it comes across in the form you choose instead of being left behind, and you see how it looks in a sample migration before we run the full set.
We've built custom modules and integrations on Drupal. Can you migrate their content to Xperience by Kentico?
We migrate the content and data your custom modules hold, as long as it can be read from Drupal programmatically. Every migration we run is written as custom code for that project rather than pushed through an off-the-shelf tool, so unusual module data is not a blocker. During scoping we review each custom module and integration with you and agree how it will be handled before any work is committed.
Will the migration set off automations or send emails or notifications to customers, our team or anyone else?
No. Before the sample or full migration starts, we confirm with you that nothing in Xperience by Kentico will send messages about the migrated data: we import with notifications switched off wherever Xperience by Kentico allows it, and either pause any automation that could send them for the migration window or give it a condition, such as a suppression tag, that skips migrated records, which lets your live automations keep running for new records. We only proceed once you have confirmed it. If you want anyone told about the move, that message is sent separately, once the migrated data has been checked.
Can you migrate data that Xperience by Kentico can't take in through an API?
In many cases, yes. Where something can't be written through an API, we recreate it through Xperience by Kentico's user interface where the interface allows it, and where that work is repetitive we script and automate it. We tell you up front which items are handled this way, because recreating them through the interface can add time to the schedule.
What happens if Xperience by Kentico requires fields our Drupal data doesn't have?
We check the destination for required fields your source data cannot fill and bring each one to you before those records are migrated. Together we agree how each one is handled, such as a mapping from an existing field, a default value, or, where Xperience by Kentico lets that field be made optional, setting it to not required for the migration so you can make it required again once the migration is complete. The migration then runs with that rule applied, so no records are rejected or left behind.
Can you change our URL structure when we move from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico, such as moving a blog or docs from a subdomain onto our main domain?
Yes, where Xperience by Kentico and your site's front end support the structure you want. Each page is created in Xperience by Kentico by the migration, so it can be given its new address, for example a blog moved from a subdomain to a path on your main domain, and you get a map of every old URL to its new one so redirects can be set up from the old addresses wherever they are served.

Timeline & downtime

2 questions
How long does the Drupal to Xperience by Kentico migration take?
Most migrations complete within 1–5 business days, depending on data volume and complexity; very large migrations, such as several hundred thousand records, take longer. We provide a detailed timeline after the initial assessment and can often complete small migrations in under 24 hours.
Will there be downtime when migrating from Drupal to Xperience by Kentico?
No. Our migration process is designed for zero downtime. Drupal stays fully operational throughout: the bulk migration runs in the background and the cutover is fast, so there is no disruption to your live business operations.

Security & access

1 question
Can we whitelist a single IP instead of opening our network to your migration tool?
Yes. All migration traffic runs through a centralized system using one fixed IP, which your IT team can whitelist instead of opening broader network access.

Pricing

1 question
Is migration pricing a flat fee, or does it scale with data volume?
It's a flat fee with no hidden costs. The price we agree with you for your scope is the price you pay, and small variances in the final volume, a bit more or less, are included.

After go-live

5 questions
How do I validate that everything migrated correctly?
Every client receives a Migration Validation Report with comprehensive metrics including record-count comparison, attachment integrity verification via checksum, and full audit logs of the migration run, showing every record created, skipped or failed. If any item didn't come across, the report names each one, the specific reason, and how to bring it across if you want it there. We also offer unlimited sample migrations, so you can check your data before the full migration runs.
What support do you provide after the migration goes live?
At ClonePartner, we consider ourselves your partners in this journey. We take full accountability for your migration's success. Once your migration goes live, we provide 30 days of comprehensive post-migration support as standard, and longer support, such as 60 or 90 days, can be agreed for your project. During this period, we help with anything related to your migrated data, so your migration is a complete success.
Will we get a migration report and a mapping sheet linking old record IDs to new ones?
Yes. We provide a comprehensive migration report along with an ID-mapping sheet that links each old Drupal record ID to its new ID in Xperience by Kentico. This ensures full traceability, simplifies post-migration verification, and helps your team validate that records have been migrated accurately.
After migration, do I contact ClonePartner or the platform's own support if something looks wrong?
ClonePartner is the contact for anything about the migrated data itself. Questions about the platform itself, such as how its features and settings work, go to the platform's own support or to whoever administers it for you.
Will our existing Drupal page URLs and links keep working after we move to Xperience by Kentico?
They can, through redirects and link rewriting. Links between your own pages are updated to point at their new URLs as part of the migration, and the files and images your pages use are re-hosted on Xperience by Kentico, wherever it can host them, with their links rewritten. For every old URL we give you a map to its new address, so redirects can be set up where your site is served and old bookmarks, search results and external links open the right page.

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Attention to Detail

We meticulously handle every aspect of your migration, ensuring no data is lost during transfer and mapping every field correctly between platforms.

Custom Solutions

Every business is unique. We tailor your migration strategy to match your specific requirements, workflows, and data structures.

Security & Compliance

Your customer data is handled with enterprise-grade security protocols, ensuring compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and industry standards.