IT news portal migrated from a highly customized Wordpress to Drupal 8
summary
Diginomica.com moves from a heavily customized WordPress to Drupal 8, merged two databases and unified users/media while refactoring a huge category tree into content types. Media uses core media plus iframe.ly for embeds; on-the-fly cropping is lost but image presets are enforced. Key engineering work ports Context to D8, patches Yoast, builds eight custom modules and keeps 49 contributed modules. Hosting uses Pantheon, CDN and APM; average page load and Lighthouse scores improve and organic search climbs 24% organic traffic increase with reduced search console errors from ~300 to 87.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30About the project
- 2:05Question
- 2:35Content structure
- 3:45Editorial UI
- 4:50Wordpress vs Drupal
- 5:20Navigation
- 5:35Single level navigation
- 6:30Image media handling
- 8:10Integrations
- 8:50Most important modules
- 9:32Performance
- 10:30Page load time
- 11:00SEO
- 12:00Results
- 12:20Statistics
- 13:52Summary
- 14:37Lessons learned
- 16:42Key takeaways
- 19:49Why we only use Drupal Admin UI
