The vendor is required to provide to lead the migration of its existing Drupal 10 websites to WordPress.
- The migration will include approximately 6,550 pages from geneseo.edu and 450 pages from the scene magazine website, which is WordPress -based and hosted on wordpress.com.
- The migrated site will largely retain the structure of our existing Drupal site, with targeted design updates to typography, color, and high-traffic pages. WordPress will enable more flexible and iterative improvements post-migration.
- College staff will lead the design and configuration of the WordPress site architecture, including theme setup, custom post types, templates, and content layout structures.
- Content migration requirements
• Accurately migrate all content, media, and metadata from the current Drupal 10 website to the new WordPress environment.
• Content must be structured using WordPress native block editor to ensure flexible, reusable layouts and enable ongoing content management by non-technical users.
• Preserve all taxonomy relationships, metadata, internal associations, and SEO-relevant attributes, including meta titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, and image alt text.
• Maintain independent navigation for subsites and migrate existing menu hierarchies. see the user permissions section for more information.
• Migrate and preserve all existing 301 redirects associated with Drupal content.
• No URL changes are planned for pages transitioning directly from Drupal. pages migrated from the WordPress -based scene magazine site (~450 pages) will require new 301 redirects to reflect updated URLs.
• Ensure general functional parity with Drupal content types by mapping them to the WordPress content model defined by college staff or vendor-recommended structures.
- Content types to migrate
• Basic pages
• Advanced pages (with paragraphs)
• Faculty pages
• Academic program pages
• Department news
• News articles
• Research briefs
• Scene magazine pages (WordPress)
• Scene magazine posts (WordPress)
- Performance optimization
• Migrate and optimize images.
• Enqueue assets properly; remove redundant code.
• Implement caching, compression, and load performance strategies.
• Provide a post-migration core web vitals report and recommendations.
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 20, 2025