Case Study: How AAlogics Successfully Migrated GDCE from WordPress to Drupal
Problem
GDCE (Global Data Center Engineering), a Japan-based organization, was operating on an outdated WordPress website that hadn’t been updated in over a decade. As their digital requirements grew, the site faced issues like slow performance, frequent security issues and limited flexibility—especially in handling multilingual content. The old design and structure no longer aligned with their global brand image or modern user expectations. To support future growth and deliver a faster, more secure and scalable experience, Global DCE decided to migrate to a more advanced platform—Drupal 10.5.
AAlogics stepped in to completely migrate the GDCE website from WordPress to Drupal 10.5, delivering a faster, more secure and modern digital experience.
Challenges
Migrating a website from WordPress to Drupal is a complex process that involves technical, operational and strategic challenges. AAlogics encountered the following hurdles during the GDCE migration:
- Data Migration Complexity: Transferring thousands of posts, media files and custom taxonomies while preserving SEO structure and content relationships.
- Multilingual Content Integration: Implementing multilingual support for GDCE’s global audience required precise configuration to ensure content accessibility and SEO performance across languages.
- User Experience Consistency: Ensuring that the look and feel remained intuitive while upgrading to a more powerful backend.
- Performance Optimization: Ensuring the new Drupal site outperformed the WordPress site in terms of speed and scalability required meticulous planning and execution.
- Multilingual Content Handling: GDCE’s site was built with content in multiple languages. The client requested a full content conversion into English to standardize global communication.
Our Solution
AAlogics conducted a full audit of GDCE (Global Data Center Engineering) WordPress site, created custom migration scripts to transfer media and users to Drupal 10.5, rebuilt custom features using Drupal modules, enhanced security with enterprise-grade Drupal tools, optimized SEO with clean URLs, redirects and schema markup and fine-tuned performance through caching, image optimization and database improvements resulting in a secure, scalable and future ready platform.
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Our Approach
Features Developed
- Simplified Content Management: with intuitive workflows and better content relationships
- Customization & Flexibility: From content types to workflows, Drupal offers unmatched flexibility.
- Custom Drupal Theme Development: Built a visually appealing, responsive theme tailored to GDCE’s brand, ensuring fast load times and mobile optimization for improved user experience and SEO rankings.
Why Drupal
Switching to Drupal 10.5 provided GDCE with a range of enterprise-grade benefits over WordPress:
- 🔐 Improved Security: Drupal’s strong core and community-backed modules provide exceptional security and role-based access control.
- ⚡ Superior Performance: With its decoupled architecture and caching capabilities, Drupal significantly outperformed the old WordPress setup.
- 🔌 Scalable & Modular: The platform is highly customizable, supporting ongoing expansion and innovation without performance issues.
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