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Migrating to Drupal from Wordpress
July 24, 2013, 12:05:04 pm
I've got a general idea as to what needs to be moved and what doesn't when moving from Wordpress to Drupal, but before I get started I'd like to know if anybody has a particular list of things for me to make sure I do.

Is there, also, a resource somewhere with a comparison between the two CMSs and where their particular versions of CiviCRM are different?

I don't want to spend too much time on this move, so I'm trying to prepare.

Thoughts? Hints? Ideas?

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Re: Migrating to Drupal from Wordpress
July 24, 2013, 12:29:45 pm
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http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC43/Migrating+from+Drupal+to+WordPress
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Re: Migrating to Drupal from Wordpress
July 24, 2013, 06:33:23 pm
"Backoffice" functionality is really identical in all 3 CMS's (it's the same codebase). There are differences in how you expose CiviCRM pages to 'the public' (i.e. event registration, online contributions etc.) - an example of which is covered in this section of the book: http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/contributions/setup/

From an implementation point of view, Drupal + CiviCRM opens up new possibilities using Webform+CiviCRM for more complex public forms as well as Views + CiviCRM.
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Re: Migrating to Drupal from Wordpress
July 26, 2013, 11:52:36 am
So, the backend isn't really any different? Is that what you're saying?

It seems like it would have to be.

I just, of course, realized, that I'm also looking at 2 different versions of Civicrm. THAT is where I'm having problems.

I suppose I should just install the previous version of Civicrm in the new location and migrate and then upgrade. Does that make sense?

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Re: Migrating to Drupal from Wordpress
July 26, 2013, 04:51:41 pm
I think that makes sense.
RE: looking different, the CMS themes will make things look quite a bit different AND Drupal back-end does include some optional 'blocks' (if you're using a multi-column theme) for Recently Viewed, Quick Add and a Create ... button.
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