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  • Migrate WordPress to Drupal

    As I discovered that my web server has been getting too many xmlrpc.php requests. It is about time that I need to take action to tighten the security of my site. Most of the leading hosting providers recommend to disable call to xmlrpc.php file.

    I have decided to:

    In this article, I will share the migration work. I have used Drupal in the past and managed to install it without any issues.

    Migration Plan

    Here is the plan of work:

    • identify the contents need to be migrated
    • export all contents from the current site (source)
    • install and configure Drupal (target)
    • prepare target site by installing and enabling following modules
      • ctools
      • migrate
      • migrate plus
      • wordpress migrate
    • field mapping
      • create a spreadsheet, listing out all the fields from the source
      • manually map out the fields
      • create content type (target)
      • create Categories taxonomy
    • data manipulation
      • check exported file and change site URL accordingly
      • hard code internal links
      • file migrations – /wp-contents -> /site/default/files
    • execute migration
    • test
    drupal modules for migration
    blog post content
    Result after migration
    broadoakdata.uk contents migrated to a drupla site

    Final thoughts

    Migration was completed as expected. I have chosen default look and feel for Drupal site. I could have used article content type for WordPress post type instead of creating a new content type.

    Following modules were installed:

    • https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/ctools-4.0.4.tar.gz
    • https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/migrate_plus-6.0.1.tar.gz
    • https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/wordpress_migrate-8.x-3.0-alpha6.tar.gz
    • https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/migrate_tools-6.0.2.tar.gz

    Taking precautions against denial of service attack

    • Update .htaccess file at root folder with the following directives:
    <Files "xmlrpc.php">
  Require all denied
</Files>
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
    • Change WP admin login with the plugin Rename wp-login.php .