ASU Fulton Schools Completes Phase One WordPress-to-Drupal Migration

Faculty and research lab websites in phase one of Arizona State University’s Fulton Schools migration have now been moved from WordPress into Drupal and Webspark. An updated Fulton Schools project notice says all sites had been successfully migrated by 31 August 2026. Site review and publication are still continuing, with several sites already launched and others being released as they become ready.

The university directed the transition as part of a wider move to a unified, secure and centrally managed web environment. Fulton Schools documentation describes Webspark as ASU's Drupal implementation for meeting university standards around design, accessibility and analytics. The migration schedule had been extended to 31 August after user testing of the first two batches required more time than originally planned.

Enterprise Technology, working with hosting provider Acquia, handles the technical migration and managed platform, while Fulton Schools Web Services reviews migrated sites and provides communication, training and support. Custom WordPress functionality is evaluated for alternatives or replacements in Drupal and Webspark, and migrated sites use Webspark's templates and components. Fulton Schools says it is contacting faculty individually as sites become ready for review and will continue publishing completed sites.

Enterprise Technology Web developers also manage Drupal upgrades, security releases and bug fixes for sites on the supported stacks, shifting platform maintenance away from individual site owners. Drupal configuration and versions can be shared across those stacks, while individual site databases, content and users remain separate. The arrangement gives ASU a common maintenance layer without combining the sites' underlying content and user data.