Migration vs. Recreation of Content: Lessons Learned From Our Enterprise Clients Replatforming

When replatforming from a legacy CMS to Webiny, one of the earliest and the hardest decisions you will face is whether to migrate existing content or start over and recreate it all from scratch. This is not just a technical debate. It’s a decision that will affect your architecture, your timelines, and your teams. Having helped enterprises to migrate from WordPress, Drupal and Adobe Experience Manager to Webiny, we’ve learned first-hand that the answer isn’t always obvious and there is no one-size-fits-all approach, but hopefully in this article, we can share some learnings with you that can help you on your journey with Webiny.