Float Solutions

Drupal 7 → Drupal 11 migrations that keep your SEO, content, and sanity intact.

New Zealand-based Drupal specialists helping businesses migrate legacy Drupal 7 sites to Drupal 11 with a disciplined, testable approach: data parity, file migration, URL alias preservation, and custom feature porting.

We also leverage AI-assisted tooling to speed up analysis and reduce busywork — backed by 25 years of web development experience to validate decisions, catch edge cases, and keep production changes safe.

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Content + Users + Files + Aliases Custom module porting Drupal 7 is end-of-life (community security ended Jan 2025)

What “done” looks like

A migration you can verify.

Data parity

Counts match (nodes/users/files)

SEO continuity

URL aliases migrated

Custom features

Rebuilt cleanly

Cutover

Planned + safe

Send your Drupal 7 URL and must-keep features, and we’ll respond with a clear migration path.

Migration process

Predictable, testable, repeatable.

1

Discovery & risk map

Inventory content types, modules, custom code, and unknowns. Identify risk and a real plan.

2

Build Drupal 11 target

Composer build, config management, environments, deployment workflow.

3

Migrate + customise

Run migrations, then add custom migrations for edge cases and legacy tables.

4

Verify

Count parity, spot checks, and critical user journeys. Turn findings into a punch list.

5

SEO continuity

Preserve URL aliases where possible and implement redirects where structure changes.

6

Port custom features

Rebuild modules using modern patterns (services, plugins, config) and keep behaviour intact.

7

Cutover

Final content sync plan, maintenance window, caching/monitoring, rollback plan.

8

Stabilise & speed up

Hardening, performance tuning, caching strategy, backups, logs, automation.

Proof

Example results from a real D7→D11 migration (YIT).

YIT migration outcomes

We treat migrations as verifiable engineering: counts, parity, and critical paths.

Nodes migrated

60,936 (100%)

Users migrated

787 (100%)

URL aliases migrated

62,061 (100%)

Files migrated

11,080 (~11GB)

# Typical migration checkpoints (example) drush migrate:status --group=migrate_drupal_7 drush migrate:import upgrade_d7_user drush migrate:import upgrade_d7_node --execute-dependencies drush migrate:import upgrade_d7_file drush migrate:import upgrade_d7_url_alias # Verify counts drush sql:query "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM node;" drush sql:query "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users_field_data WHERE uid > 0;" drush sql:query "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM file_managed;" drush sql:query "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM path_alias;"

Numbers shown here are an example; we’ll replace with your site’s verification results.

FAQ

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Will you preserve my URLs and rankings?
Yes—either by migrating URL aliases directly, or via a structured redirect strategy if URL architecture changes.
What about files and images?
Files are treated as first-class: path configuration, file entities, and real render checks in the UI.
Do you convert custom Drupal 7 modules?
Yes—custom modules usually need rebuilds using services, dependency injection, plugins, and config. We port behaviour, not just code.
What do you mean by “AI-assisted”?
We use AI to accelerate planning, code reading, refactoring, and documentation — but everything is reviewed and tested by an experienced developer. You get speed without gambling on unverified changes.
Can you handle servers too?
Yes—Nginx/PHP-FPM, DB tuning, Redis/Varnish, TLS, backups, monitoring, and deploy pipelines.

Want a clear migration plan you can verify?

Send your Drupal 7 URL and must-keep features. We’ll reply with a clear path.