Major Version Upgrades for Drupal, WordPress & Joomla

De-risked upgrades with staged testing, compatibility checks and a clear rollback plan

Upgrade safely — protect stability, SEO and your authoring experience.

When it’s time to move to a major release — Drupal 11, Joomla 5 or WordPress 6.x — our process reduces risk and avoids surprises. We audit compatibility, plan changes, test in staging and validate business-critical journeys before production. If anything misbehaves, we roll back fast.

We support organisations Australia-wide and work comfortably with internal teams and hosting vendors.

How we decrease the risk with major upgrades

  • Discovery & compatibility audit

    Inventory themes/templates, plugins/modules/extensions, PHP/DB versions and hosting constraints. Identify blockers and replacements.

  • Plan & prepare

    Define scope, sequencing and rollback. Create staging with environment parity and backups/snapshots.

  • Upgrade & remediate

    Upgrade core, update/replace extensions, resolve deprecations, fix theme compatibility and adjust configs.

  • Test what matters

    Functional smoke tests, forms/integrations, accessibility checks and performance (Core Web Vitals) validation.

  • UAT & content sign-off

    Stakeholder walkthroughs, known-issues log and acceptance criteria. Train authors on any UI changes.

  • Go-live & ongoing support

    Post go-live we can continue to support your digital assets

What’s included

Extension compatibility

Audit plugins/modules/extensions; update or replace with supported, secure alternatives.

Theme/template updates

Resolve breaking changes, deprecated APIs and styling regressions.

Security & backups

Pre upgrade backups/snapshots, and a documented rollback plan.

Testing & validation

Smoke tests, forms, search, auth, integrations; accessibility and performance checks.

Author training

Short sessions and guidance covering any editor/UX changes introduced by the new version.

Post-launch monitoring

Issue triage, hotfixes and a follow-up release to polish edge cases.

Platforms we upgrade

Drupal, Joomla and WordPress across a range of hosting environments.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will there be downtime?

We plan a deployment window and use staging-first rollouts. With backups and a rollback plan, any interruption is minimised.

What about plugin/module compatibility?

We audit everything first, replacing unsupported extensions with safe, maintained options and documenting changes.

Can you coordinate with our vendor/IT team?

Yes — we collaborate with hosting providers and in-house teams, sharing a clear runbook and test evidence.

How do you protect SEO and analytics?

We validate sitemaps, robots, schema and tracking before go-live and re-check after release.

What about accessibility and performance?

We re-test key templates for WCAG alignment and Core Web Vitals to avoid regressions.

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