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A CMS migration should improve more than the platform.

A migration is a chance to improve content, information architecture, accessibility, governance, and editorial workflows rather than recreate an aging website in a new system.

We plan migration, consolidation, and modernization around the actual systems, content, destination readiness, access, tooling, and institutional review process. That includes projects moving between CMS platforms, consolidating within a shared system, or improving an existing environment without replacing it.

How we plan and deliver migrations.

  1. Discovery, constraints & migration planning

    Source and destination systems, content volume, integrations, analytics, governance, access, tooling, institutional dates, and approval responsibilities assessed before the migration approach is defined.

  2. Content assessment & ownership

    Content reviewed to determine what moves, changes, combines, or retires, with owners, destinations, and unresolved decisions documented.

  3. Information architecture & content mapping

    Navigation, page relationships, content types, fields, and component needs mapped for the destination platform instead of preserving accumulated structural problems.

  4. Destination platform readiness

    Approved templates, components, workflows, permissions, integrations, and accessibility requirements confirmed before content begins moving.

  5. Migration execution & redirects

    Automated, assisted, and manual work selected according to the actual systems and available access, then organized into reviewable stages with redirect mapping for important URLs.

  6. Quality assurance, launch & editor readiness

    Structured review for content accuracy, accessibility, missing assets, links, redirects, permissions, analytics, and editorial readiness before launch.

Three decisions that shape the migration plan.

The migration method and schedule follow the actual content, systems, access, destination readiness, and institutional approval process.

  1. Decide what should move

    Ownership, accuracy, duplication, performance, and future value determine what migrates, changes, combines, or retires.

  2. Confirm what the destination supports

    Content models, components, permissions, integrations, and accessibility requirements must be ready before content begins moving.

  3. Choose the method after discovery

    Automated, assisted, and manual work are selected according to source structure, available exports, access, tooling, and review needs.

Platforms we migrate, modernize, and support.

  • Drupal

    Destination planning, content mapping, component alignment, redirects, validation, and editor preparation for new or centrally managed Drupal environments.

  • WordPress

    Migrations into or between WordPress environments, including content restructuring, theme or block alignment, media, redirects, and editorial workflows.

  • Cascade CMS

    Content inventory, export assessment, cleanup, mapping, ongoing support, and transition planning for institutions moving from or remaining in Cascade CMS.

  • Other CMS environments

    Custom, proprietary, and legacy platforms assessed for content access, export options, dependencies, integration needs, and a practical migration or modernization path.

A migration has to work across content and platform teams

The people who own the content and the teams responsible for the platform may have different priorities, authority, and review responsibilities. The migration plan has to account for both.

We coordinate the work around approved themes and components, central content models, permissions, accessibility, brand and security requirements, content freezes, and launch checkpoints. Questions about unsupported content, component gaps, integrations, redirects, and who approves what are surfaced before they become late-stage blockers.

The migration method comes after discovery

Automation can be valuable when source content is structured, exports are available, destination models are stable, and access supports repeatable imports. It is not automatically the safest or fastest approach for every website.

We define the balance of automated, assisted, and manual work after reviewing the actual systems, content patterns, tooling, and approval process. Scope and schedule follow that decision, not the other way around.

Plan the migration around what needs to improve.

Share the systems, content scope, constraints, and outcome you are working toward. We can assess the environment and define a practical path for migration, consolidation, or modernization.

Discuss a migration