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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, Laravel development, Support and hosting
Partner
Apogee Creative
The Inspired Villages home page with a film of one of their villages beneath a navy navigation bar

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
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 page explains what that involves, and support and hosting covers looking after the site afterwards.