By Zapekanski on

Bros, I didn't get any answers from my friends, so I beg your pardon in advance if I ask stupid questions.

There a site running on GetSimple, this is a CMS to manage content on sites. The site is mine. It was made to collect Free Bitcoins (hope I am posting this link right, I am absolutely new to this, so if you need it like a common link, it looks like bitcoinpaw.com). The author of it is my friend but currently he is out of time and I need some changes to be made.

I've read that Drupal is kinda pretty diverse and fast-working CMS and I decided to migrate from my old one to Drupal. Can you name some tools for newbies for these purposes? I mean quick migration, like user-oriented and all, cause I am a complete newb. Please give advice if there are any. I want to migrate to the 8th version. Thanks in advance.

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john_b commented

You have the Feeds module and the Migrate module. The Migrate module is included in Drupal 8 core. It requires a little coding to use it. There are many tutorials for Drupal Migrate which you can find with Google. Drupal 8 is not ready for use on a production site (really!).

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Chasen commented

In reality, you're probably not going to find a simple "one-click" style solution - you're talking about migrating data from a system to a new system with completely different database schema and processes. Unless someone's prebuilt a solution, you'll have to do some heavy lifting yourself.

As John_B mentioned, there's framework modules you can use to import data structures but you'll need to write code to tell the system how to translate XYZ data from system A to XYZ data to system B - basically you need a translator and that's you.

Regarding D8, please take note that while it may be available soon™ it could take weeks, months or even longer for all the related contributed modules to update as well, so you may want to consider D7 which is very mature and stable, including all the modules you're likely to want to use.