Vegane Gesellschaft Österreich: AI-assisted Drupal 7 to 11 relaunch on mossbo Cloud

Requirements. As a non-profit, vegan.at needed a relaunch that was affordable, that preserved a decade of content and search rankings, and that left the team with a site they could run themselves without technical overhead. The content model was rebuilt around the organisation's actual work: articles, recipes, events and the restaurant directory, each with its own editing experience.

Approach. Four things set this project apart from a conventional migration.

• AI-assisted design. The VGÖ's in-house designer provided the branding, colours, typography and logo, and gave feedback on the result. The design itself was generated with Claude Design on top of the mossbo Cloud kickstart component set. One feedback round was enough to land the prototype as working HTML and Vue, which then became the reference every page was built against.
• AI-assisted migration under human gates. Content and pages were both migrated by AI agents, with a human giving direction and approving every visual outcome. Content was extracted from the Drupal 7 database by deterministic, agent-written scripts into Drupal core's default_content format: 970 articles, 1,012 recipes and 6,458 media records, with 2,820 raw ingredient terms consolidated into a vocabulary of 923. The page migration ran as 48 tickets over 15 calendar days, all of them implemented by coding agents. The method has since been generalised into a reusable set of agent skills.
• AI-assisted implementation. The agents also took over the Drupal configuration and supported the design implementation in the Nuxt frontend. No custom backend code was needed: the mossbo architecture separates platform and project, and the project consists of configuration and frontend components.
• Canvas-based overview pages. Section, topic and campaign pages were fixed templates on the old site. They are now Drupal Canvas pages: editors compose them from reusable components and see them as visitors will. The client manages them without a developer.

Two more pieces were rebuilt for the association to run on its own. The nationwide restaurant finder is a Nuxt component placed on a Canvas page, with free-text, place and radius search, facets and a map, and shareable filtered views. Recipe search and site search run on the OpenSearch server that mossbo Cloud provides, through Search API and Views. Of roughly 60 Drupal 7 forms, about 50 near-identical requests became one content type; the rest, from magazine orders to feedback surveys with Likert scales, the VGÖ rebuilt in Webform itself. Webform conditionals and AJAX uploads now work in the decoupled setup thanks to library support added to the Custom Elements module.

Goals and how they were measured.

1. Get off Drupal 7: the site runs Drupal 11.4 and went live on 27 August 2026, with updates and security patches automated by mossbo Cloud.
2. Preserve ten years of content and rankings: around 2,173 pages were migrated, the old URLs redirect, the entry redirect went from two hops to one, and Google Search Console accepted the new sitemap on the day of the switch.
3. An editorial interface that needs little technical knowledge: editors compose overview and campaign pages in Canvas and work in forms built around articles, recipes and events.
4. Remove the maintenance burden: GDPR-compliant hosting with the data centre in Germany, a CDN, monitoring, and all updates including Drupal major version upgrades handled by the platform.
5. Accessibility: self-audited against WCAG 2.2 AA on 14 pages at three viewports, axe-core plus manual keyboard, focus, contrast and zoom checks; the accessibility statement names the remaining shortcomings and was delivered with the launch.
6. Speed: more than six times faster. Google's crawl statistics show the average response time falling from roughly 900 milliseconds to around 130 on the day of the switch.
7. A cost a charitable association can carry: a small team with AI-assisted workflows shortened time to delivery, which saved the client time and cost.

A result nobody set as a goal: the old site shipped no structured data. The new one emits Schema.org markup, and by 3 September Search Console reported 1,153 valid breadcrumb items, 529 valid recipe items and 3 event items, with zero errors.

Client voice.

Mit der Neuentwicklung von vegan.at haben wir unsere historisch gewachsene Drupal-7-Website in eine moderne, leistungsfähige und zukunftssichere Plattform überführt. Das neue System ermöglicht es uns, Inhalte wie Artikel, Rezepte und Veranstaltungen deutlich flexibler und effizienter zu verwalten. Besonders wertvoll ist für uns, dass Betrieb, Monitoring und Sicherheitsupdates in einer Managed-Cloud-Lösung gebündelt sind. Dadurch kann sich unser Team stärker auf die redaktionelle Arbeit konzentrieren und vegan.at kontinuierlich weiterentwickeln.

Fabian Plank, Informationstechnik, Vegane Gesellschaft Österreich

In English: with the redevelopment of vegan.at we moved our historically grown Drupal 7 website to a modern, powerful and future-proof platform. The new system lets us manage content such as articles, recipes and events far more flexibly and efficiently. What we value most is that operations, monitoring and security updates are bundled in a managed cloud solution, so our team can concentrate on editorial work and keep developing vegan.at.

The full case study, including the before-and-after comparison, the migration figures per content type and the verification of every number, is on drunomics.com in English and German.