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title: "Drupal to Statamic migration case study - Spacestar Digital"
description: "A component-driven Statamic website for a national later-living operator, with 1,112 properties and 131 articles moved across from Drupal 9."
url: https://spacestar.digital/cases/inspired-villages/
generatedAt: 2026-11-12T10:48:31.350Z
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# Inspired Villages: Drupal to Statamic migration

A component-driven Statamic website for a national later-living operator, with 1,112 properties and 131 articles moved across from Drupal 9.

Client

Inspired Villages

Year

2026

Services

[Statamic development](https://spacestar.digital/services/statamic-development/), [Laravel development](https://spacestar.digital/services/laravel-development/), [Support and hosting](https://spacestar.digital/services/support-and-hosting/)

Partner

Apogee Creative

![The Inspired Villages home page with a film of one of their villages beneath a navy navigation bar](https://spacestar.digital/_astro/home@2x.Cislxq1x_Z2eC9Fs.jpg)

## The problem

Inspired Villages builds and runs retirement villages. Their website was on Drupal 9, and it held a lot of content: every property for sale or rent, plus a library of articles. They wanted a new site that their marketing team could change without a developer, with their existing content carried across.

## What we built

We built the new site in Statamic on Laravel, with Tailwind for styling and Alpine for the interactive parts. Pages are assembled from around 35 components in a page builder, so editors can lay out a page themselves, and each village can take one of four colour themes. A village map uses MapLibre.

The content came across in two stages. The migration moved 1,112 properties and 131 articles from Drupal into Statamic. To keep pages quick we wrote a small set of custom tags for the heaviest lookups, and pages are served as static files.

![The Gifford Lea village page on the Inspired Villages site, in the village's own teal theme](https://spacestar.digital/_astro/village@2x.BRSxkP9u_xEcdE.jpg)

A village page in its own colour theme.

The site connects to the systems the business already uses: the Sherpa CRM, PageUp for recruitment and a digital sales tool, with Cloudflare Turnstile on the forms. There are eight enquiry forms in all. A read-only API, documented with OpenAPI, lets other systems read the property data.

We started with hosting on AWS, using containers and Terraform, and later moved it to Laravel Forge.

## What’s happened since

The site launched in 2026, and we’ve kept working on it with Apogee since.

## Who else was involved

We built this with Apogee Creative, who led design and UX. The client’s SEO and sales-tool partners worked alongside us, and we connect to their sales tool. We joined the stakeholder workshops alongside them.

If you’re planning a move off Drupal, our [Statamic development](https://spacestar.digital/services/statamic-development/) page explains what that involves, and [support and hosting](https://spacestar.digital/services/support-and-hosting/) covers looking after the site afterwards.