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    From Drupal Simplenews to WordPress Newsletter
    Our latest feature to cover even more aspects in your Drupal to WordPress migration is the migration of your newsletters and newsletter subscribers (created in Drupal using the Simplenews module) than …
    The most important reason to move to WordPress
    People choose wordpress for a variety of reasons (availability of a specific theme or plug-in they need, possibility of starting with a free hosted version of their blog, popularity of WP in the commu …
    WordPress links of the week (8/May/12)
    Our (curated) list of WordPress related links we enjoyed this week/s (and we hope you will do too!): – WPFunction.me : Say what you need and immediately get a code excerpt to integrate in your WP site …
    Don’t leave your (Drupal) polls behind when moving to WordPress
    We are now offering the migration of your Drupal polls to WordPress, using the popular WP-Polls plug-in on the WP side. When selecting this feature, your polls’ questions, set of possible answers and …
    We’re now giving you the chance of requesting a free test migration!
    Read about our test migrations, completely free of charge. Use this risk-free opportunity to see why you should trust your migration project to us! If you liked this post and want to follow all our la …
    More than 100.000 users converted from Drupal to WordPress!
    During the latest update of our migration counter we just realized we have crossed the 100.000 migrated users milestone (plus half a million posts, 300.000 comments, etc). And remember that the migrat …
    RR: Separating the content editing and publishing processes (by Martin Fowler)
    Today’s recommended reading is Martin Fowler’s latest post EditingPublishingSeparation defending the idea of separating the content editing and the publishing processes since “data access patterns for …
    WordPress links of the week (24/Apr/12)
    Our (curated) list of WordPress related links enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Do you like the theme of a site? Check what theme is that – Plug-in to Automatically Organize Your Post …
    Whatever CMS you choose, make sure to avoid a vendor lock-in
    Needless to say, I recommend WordPress as the CMS to choose in (almost) all situations but there are plenty of other good options out there that may perfectly fit your needs as well. There is really o …
    WordPress links of the week (9/Apr/12)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – A recap of some of the best new themes in wordpress.org – Bulk page creator. Nice plug-in to create the same set …
    Nice phpmyadmin tutorial to export/import your data
    Many of our customers are not database exports so they usually need some help to export/import the database data we need to perform the migration to WordPress. Obviously, we can help with that as part …
    WordPress links of the week (26/Mar/12)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – What the GPL Licence used by WordPress Means – Everything you can do in Drupal, you can do it in WP too (so no re …
    Check our new testimonials
    More happy clients have left a testimonial to convince you that we are the best solution for your migration to wordpress needs. Ivan says “When we decided to migrate our site from Drupal to WordPress, …
    Remember to block search engines in your test wordpress site!
    When accessing the wordpress test sites (being build as part of a conversion from Drupal or others to wordpress) of my clients, one thing I always check is whether they have set the Privacy settings o …
    WordPress links of the week (7/Mar/12)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Don’t Blame the CMS, Blame the Theme Designer – Benchmark (with real tests!) to compare all main cache plug-ins f …
    Dear plug-in developer don’t mess with my WP tables (thanks!)
    Every time a plug-in developer modifies a core WordPress table a kitten dies. A non-standard set of core WP tables (by core I refer to the ones that wordpress creates during the installation) is the …
    Converting RavenNuke to WordPress
    We have successfully completed our first RavenNuke migration to WordPress (including comments, categories, tags, comments, post, pages and users). For those that don’t know it, RavenNuke is a fork of …
    WordPress links of the week (24/Feb/12)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – How to make money with wordpress – WP Remote: An Amazing Free Service for Monitoring and Managing your Sites – Sl …
    One million elements migrated to WordPress !!
    We are very very happy to announce that this week we hit the 1M mark. As of today, we can already say that our customers have trusted us with the migration of more than one million elements (we count …
    Instructions for a core Drupal to WordPress migration in Spanish
    We have now published a spanish version of our core migration instructions to port your site from Drupal over to WordPress. This Spanish version has been published in the well-known site for all Span …
    List of wordpress plug-ins installed in this site
    If case you were wondering which wordpress plugins are we using in this site, this is our list of active plug-ins: – Google Analytics: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpres …
    WordPress links of the week (8/Feb/12)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!), this time focusing on plug-in development: – How to Create Your Own Super Simple WordPress Plugins – How Commercial …
    CMSMigrations is now WPMigrations in twitter
    Continuing our strong commitment to the WordPress platform, we have changed the name of our twitter account. Now CMSMigrations becomes WPMigrations. This is more than just a name change, this shows ou …
    Increasing maximum upload file size in WordPress
    If you have troubles uploading files in your WordPress site (e.g. when adding Media files or when trying to import a .sql file resulting from our migration) due to a small maximum upload file size val …
    Import your Disqus comments in WordPress
    Disqus is a comment platform that several of our clients were using in Drupal to store the comments of their blogs. Until now, these comments were not migrated when moving over to WordPress for the s …
    WordPress links of the week (18/Jan/12)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Theme-Check: Test Your WordPress Theme Against Best Practices http://ow.ly/8lEEq – The WordPress Theme Developer’ …
    Pro Bono work – Ghana for children
    As part of our pro bono initiative, the Ghana Women and Children association (a group of volunteers who are committed to ongoing fundraising efforts and making a difference in the lives of women/child …
    Reasons why drishtikone.com moved from Drupal to WordPress
    In this post, Desh explains why he decided to move his site from Drupal to WordPress . Among the very valid reasons he mentions we find: – Upgrade process, often and difficult in Drupal – Less Drupal …
    Check our new testimonials
    Thanks to Desh and Alberto for their new testimonials about our services including very kind words as “I would not have been able to even imagine such a quick turnaround at very reasonable price” and …
    WordPress links of the week (5/Jan/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Some recommended wordpress tutorials – Useful wordpress hacks and snippets – Curious, a command line interface fo …
    End of the year recap: More than half million posts migrated from Drupal to WordPress
    Now that we are closing the year, it’s time to update our migration counter and see how things have gone since we started this company, half a year ago. In short, it´s been a hell of a ride, you just …
    Best New Year´s resolution – Drop your custom CMS and go WordPress
    Make yourself a favor and do something really useful for your company next year: Drop your custom CMS and Go WordPress! (well, moving to other popular CMSs like Drupal would also be a step forward but …
    WordPress links of the week (22/Dec/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – How fast is new WordPress 3.3? Find out in this benchmark comparing last 4 WordPress versions – 11 Quick tips for …
    More details on our probono offer for NGO/Non-profits
    Since some of you have asked about that, we have now added a new support post clarifying our special prices and probono work for non-governmental / non-profit organizations. Hope you find it interesti …
    Pro Bono work – Esperanzabipolar.org/
    As part of our probono initiative (contact us for details) we have assisted in the migration from Blogger to wordpress of the new site for Esperanza Bipolar , a Spanish website about the bipolar disor …
    Two new testimonials of happy clients
    Today we got two new testimonials regarding our migration services, including very kind words like “I would highly recommend their drupal to wordpress migration service to anyone anyday.” Thanks Nicol …
    WordPress links of the week (4/Dec/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Warming up for WordPress 3.3: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.3 – WP PaintBrush, a new and free (met …
    2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report
    You can now read the 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report confirming once again that WordPress is the leader CMS in the market. If you want to know why is that, this other article How WordPress To …
    Using %postname% for permalinks not an efficiency problem anymore
    As part of our strategy for a SEO friendly migration we mostly use %postname% as permalink structure for the wordpress posts. This was known to cause some efficiency issues in very large sites but for …
    WordPress links of the week (21/Nov/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – WordPress crosses 60 million blogs – Battle of the plugins: vote for your favorite plugins – Not confirmed but co …
    List of Drupal tables storing your site content
    One of the typical questions I get when people try to export themselves their Drupal database during a migration process is which Drupal tables are relevant (this list is for Drupal 5 and 6, contact u …
    WordPress links of the week (9/Nov/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – A litte bit of wordpress fanart (some crazy wordpress fans out there!) – Nice Syntax Highlighting Editor for WP c …
    Updated migration counter: over 600.000 elements migrated to WordPress
    At the end of October, we have already migrated to WordPress 270.000 blog posts and pages, 115.000 comments, 170.000 categories and tags , and 57.000 users !!! In total, more than 600.000 elements hav …
    From Drupal forums to bbPress in WordPress
    We´ve recently completed the first Drupal forum to migration to the recent bbPress 2.0 plugin. After working with other forum-like plugins for wordpress (like Mingle Forum, the one we use in our own s …
    WordPress links of the week (27/Oct/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Is there still room for propietary CMSs vendors? given the huge popularity of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla,… via @ …
    Go WordPress featured in WPTavern
    Our migration services have been recently featured in the popular wptavern site. Thanks a lot Jeffro for your nice words!!! If you liked this post and want to follow all our latest wordpress news ple …
    From Yola to WordPress
    Yola is an interesting service to create and host web sites targeting mainly web novices: “our easy-to-use tools will help you make a website that’s professional and looks great… create and post you …
    More than 100 people “like” our facebook page
    Join all the people that are following our “Go WordPress” news in Facebook by “liking” our Facebook page. Thanks to all of our followers for their support!!! To follow all our latest wordpress news pl …
    WordPress links of the week (11/Oct/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Noprofeed.org: “wordpress bloggers do you help us?” …
    Great tool to test your regular expressions
    One of the most important aspects in a successful migration to wordpress is making sure that the migration is SEO-friendly so that you don’t lose all your “SEO investment”. The key element is ensuring …
    WordPress links of the week (02/10/11)
    Some WordPress related links that I enjoyed this week (and I hope you will do too!): – Drupal, WordPress and Joomla CMS market shares in Europe: Interesting study of the percentage of Drupal, Wordpres …
    Updated migration counter: over 400.000 elements migrated to WordPress
    At the end of September, we have already migrated to WordPress 230.000 blog posts and pages, 30.000 comments, 130.000 categories and tags , and 15.000 users !!! In total, more than 400.000 elements ha …
    Merge/consolidate categories and tags
    One of the most typical errors of Drupal users is the endless duplication of categories/tags used to classify and organize posts. It looks like, depending on the Drupal module they use to categorize p …
    Largest migration so far
    We recently finished what has been the largest migration so far: more than 100000 posts, 6000 users and 60000 categories! After a long and thorough preparation, the actual migration was completed in ” …
    Go WordPress featured in WebLatam
    For the Spanish readers, Go WordPress migration services has been featured in the weblatam portal. Take a look and get your discount! If you liked this post and want to follow all our latest wordpress …
    Examples of large sites running WordPress – WordPress Answers
    Always interesting to know what large sites out there use WordPress (remember, WordPress is not just a personal blogging platform anymore!!). See this link for some pointers. If you liked this post an …
    New Testimonial – Ben May
    Ben May has been kind enough to provide a testimonial regarding his Drupal to WordPress migration we just did for him. Take a look! If you liked this post and want to follow all our latest wordpress n …
    Incremental migrations
    We are now offering the possibility of performing an incremental migration. You could perform an initial migration, use this first data set to test and adapt your new site (e.g. tuning the theme or do …
    New Testimonial – Howard Owens
    Howard Owens has just written a blog post where he explains his experience with this go wordpress service. He says:¨…  two days ago I discovered almost by accident a service offered by Jordi Cabot, …
    Give your brand the online presence it deserves
    We are sure that you are fully aware of the importance of being online in this global economy, regardless your business targets the local market or the international one. To maximize the benefit of yo …

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