PADI × Axelerant · PADI-403 · Canonical reference
Every editorial element, one row each: what it does on the Consumer Blog, how the Pros Blog differs, and the Drupal 11 implementation for the padi.com merger (/blog + /pros-blog sections, headless Next.js front end). Incorporates the most recently confirmed IA decisions — where this matrix and the IA document differ, this matrix is current.
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | WP + PADI_Theme, 27 editorial plugins | WP + PADI_Pros (different theme), 26 plugins | One Drupal 11 install at padi.com, two sections (/blog, /pros-blog) with separate bundles per section; headless Next.js front end (JSON:API) |
| Scale | 12,057 posts · 50 pages · 182 videos · 31.7k media files | 14,791 posts · 67 pages · 24 orphaned downloads | Everything editorially meaningful migrates (see per-type rows) |
| Languages | 14 active (WPML, directory URLs) | 19 active — adds el, fi, pl, tr, es-eu | ✅ All languages installed — union of both sites' sets incl. the custom es-eu locale; default content language read per item from WPML (not assumed English). Missing-translation URL handling → Translations section |
| Front page | Static page 37072; hero = latest story | Static page 373803 | ✅ Section landings /blog + /pros-blog: home pages aliased to the section root, latest-articles listing embedded; hero via computed_hero over JSON:API |
| Archive page size | 6 posts/page | 9 posts/page | FE page[limit] per section — no admin knob (editors will ask) |
| Comments | Fully disabled (plugin) | Default-closed; 3 real legacy comments (+509 spam) | ✅ Decided: comments are not migrated; comment module stays uninstalled |
| Display ads (Google Ad Manager) | GPT slot /21864413585/blog.padi.com at the top of single posts (responsive size map, div-gpt-ad-*); skipped on front/archive/author-94/Japanese/promoted/amplified | None | FE logic; rules documented, no admin surface |
| Cache purging | Cloudflare purge on save + Clear-Cache admin page + disappearing-block timed purges | None visible | ✅ acquia_purge + purge (in project) — cache-tag invalidation on publish/unpublish; 🔧 FE revalidation webhook |
| Timezone / formats | America/LA · "j F, Y" | Same | ✅ Core regional settings |
| Audit trail | Activity Log plugin — every admin action | Same | 🔧 admin_audit_trail / event_log_track |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Articles | Full editorial set (Featured, Promoted/Amplified, Show-as-Updated, widgets injection) | Plain posts — none of the blog's ACF side-fields; own Show-as-Updated | ✅ Separate bundles: blog_article + pros_blog_article — shared field storage, bundle-scoped permissions, unambiguous "which section am I publishing into"; side-fields as booleans/fields; presave parity built |
| Pages | 50; hierarchical + 6 templates; Landing template reveals ACF hero fields | 67; plain pages | ✅ Separate bundles: blog_page + pros_blog_page (field-for-field clone). Migrate publish + private (private → archived); drafts skipped (8 blog + 1 pros). Triage: section landings → Views routes; home pages → aliased to /blog and /pros-blog with embedded latest View; obsolete duplicates dropped. ⚠️ WP template variants (FAQ/Landing/Full-width): need depends on design finalisation — designs not ready yet |
| Videos | CPT: classic-editor-only, REST-invisible, no revisions; embed lives in body | None | ✅ Decided: all videos migrate as blog_article — served at /blog/<slug>; old /video/<slug> URLs 301 to the new alias |
| PADI Widgets | CPT injected into posts by category/post-ID/language rules; drag-ordered | None | ✅ Decided: migrated as Drupal blocks (block_content: padi_widget); 🔧 FE visibility evaluation; ordering → weight field |
| Reusable blocks | 4 saved wp_block items | — | ❌ Not migrated — PADI Widgets are the only blocks that migrate |
| Forms | 5 CF7 opt-in forms | None (22 legacy Jetpack feedback) | ✅ Done: 5 webforms + prefapi handler + webform_rest; config translation pending per language set |
| Downloads | — | 24 Download Monitor items; plugin uninstalled (orphaned) | ⚠️ Keep/drop decision (absent from the IA doc inventory) |
| Excluded CPTs | tribe_events/venue, calp_event (stale 2014), wpzoom, page-builder leftovers, nav/oembed/ACF-definition infrastructure | ❌ Intentionally not migrated | |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordering flow ⭐ | Scheduled on top → published below → unscheduled drafts float by last edit (verified; stated PADI requirement) | Same (verified) | ⚠️🔧 Not default (sorts by last-updated only). Build: pinned "Scheduled" block above the list (config) or custom sort COALESCE(publish_on, changed) DESC (exact parity) |
| Columns | Title, languages, author, terms, date, Featured ✓, Future Action, Date Updated, thumbnail, Unlisted + 7 Yoast columns; per-user toggles | Similar minus Premium Yoast columns | Views: any field as column/filter — site-wide config, ❌ no per-user Screen Options |
| Status tabs | Live counts per status, per language | Same | Exposed filters without counts; one list across languages and both sections (filter by bundle); moderation_dashboard optional |
| Quick Edit | Inline row edit | Same | ❌ None — full node form only |
| Bulk actions | Fixed bulk-edit box + Trash | Same | ✅ Better: VBO — any field, any action |
| Trash | 30-day restore | Same | ❌ Delete is permanent — archived state covers soft-removal; training point |
| Editor choice | Block or classic per post | Same | ❌ One editor (CKEditor 5) |
| Clone | — | Duplicate Post (1-click clone) | 🔧 entity_clone |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canvas | Gutenberg, 136 block types, or classic TinyMCE | Classic-leaning + TinyMCE Advanced; MaxButtons shortcodes | One body field per article: CKEditor 5, single rich_blog text format with embed button; components inserted in-body via entity_embed + paragraphs_entity_embed; literal-text shortcodes dropped at migration |
| Component inventory | Bootstrap grid, carousels (6 uses), overlay card, Yoast FAQ/How-to/TOC, Instagram feed, VR view, theme shortcodes, 33 embed providers | Overlay (57 uses), latest-news, bootstrap set | 🔧 padi:* component set built once, shared by both sections (button covers [button]/[maxbutton]/wp:button; gallery, embed, video, columns, media-text, FAQ, tabs, trending-posts, dd-top-posts, dd-categories, facebook-video, instagram, vrview, carousel, overlay, latest-news, bs-container/row/column) |
| Disappearing Block | Time-windowed content, 242 occurrences + scheduled cache purges at both boundaries | — | 🔧 padi:disappearing-block component + scheduler-driven cache invalidation (scheduler replaces the WP purge cron) |
| Featured image | ~85% coverage; 550×347 hard crop | ~36% coverage | ✅ field_featured_image → media:image; image styles + focal_point |
| Featured checkbox | dd_is_featured → front-page Featured cards (verified) | ❌ None | ✅ Native promote flag; FE queries it |
| Show as Updated | ACF dd_updated_*, auto-set on first publish (verified) | Plain metabox, padi_updated_* keys | ✅ Fields + presave auto-init built; migration maps both key sets |
| Promoted / Amplified | ACF checkboxes → ad suppression + body class (verified) | ❌ None | Boolean fields + FE ad logic |
| Unlist post | 144 posts: hidden from listings/feeds/search, URL live, noindex | Same plugin active | 🔧 Flag field; FE excludes from listings/queries (indexing + sitemap handling → SEO section) |
| Scheduled actions | Future Actions: unpublish/draft/trash/category-change at date (15 armed) | 6 saved workflows, all inactive | 🔧 scheduler (publish_on/unpublish_on); category-change needs small custom cron |
| SEO metabox | Yoast Premium (keyphrase, Google preview, readability, AI, internal links, cornerstone) | Yoast free | field_meta_tags (metatag) + field_yoast_seo (focus keyword migrates; snippet preview + keyword analysis). ❌ Readability scores, internal-link suggestions, cornerstone/orphaned analysis have no Drupal equivalent — socialize with SEO team |
| Social share toggles | Sassy per-post disables | ❌ None | Sharing plugins not migrated; FE-owned share buttons (build scope) |
| Draft sharing | Public Post Preview (expiring URL, noindex) + Share a Draft | Share a Draft only | 🔧 FE tokenized preview route with noindex; ⚠️ scope for day one |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workflow states | Draft / Pending (label only, no enforcement) / Scheduled / Published / Private / Trash | Same | ✅ Defined (PADI-49): Draft → Initial Review → Translate → Final Review → Published → Archived — real gated transitions per role; 🔧 workflow config to land in repo |
| Status migration map | publish · draft · private · pending · future · auto-draft | ✅ publish→published · draft→draft · private→archived · pending→initial_review · future→draft + scheduler date · auto-draft skipped | |
| Scheduled publishing | Future-dated posts; wp-cron (+insurance plugin) | Same, no insurance | 🔧 scheduler (full Future-Actions mapping → Editor section) |
| Private / password | 325 private; password unused | 12 private pages | Private → archived at migration; password-protection dropped |
| Sticky | 1 sticky post | — | ✅ Native sticky flag (Featured checkbox → Editor section) |
| Revert workflow impact ⭐ | Restore changes content only — never status/date/slug/terms/thumbnail/Yoast; ACF values do roll back; undoable (verified) | Same core (verified); its Show-as-Updated does NOT roll back (plain metabox) | Revert restores all fields incl. published flag — can unpublish a live node (opposite of WP) ⚠️; with the workflow, reverts can require re-approval (a gate WP can't express) |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Migration | 4,187 revisions | 52,246 revisions | ✅ Decided: all WordPress revisions migrate as node revisions (no date window) |
| Storage | Unlimited | Unlimited | ✅ Unlimited default |
| Coverage | Title/body/excerpt + ACF values (editor saves) | Title/body/excerpt | ✅ Better: every field revisioned (terms, media, SEO included) |
| Compare UI | Slider timeline, side-by-side, restore | Same | Diff module (split/unified) — functional, less polished; no slider |
| Videos | No revisions at all (CPT lacks support) | n/a | ✅ Fixed by design — uniform revisions incl. migrated ex-videos |
| Autosave / locking | 60s autosave + browser recovery; core post lock w/ take-over | Same | 🔧 autosave_form + content_lock contrib |
| Per language | Each translation = own post = own revision stream | Same | ⚠️ One shared revision graph across translations — editor training point |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model | One post per language, linked by trid; groups often incomplete | Same model | One node, per-language field values (content_translation, "translations independent" mode — per-translation status, author, dates); migration collapses trid groups per source language read from WPML |
| Pipeline | Translation Dashboard batches → ATE or in-admin translators | Same | ✅ Decided: TMGMT required; translations managed through Crowdin (tmgmt_crowdin connector — 🔧 to add to composer); jobs pushed from Drupal, synced back as translations; workflow's Translate state marks content out at Crowdin |
| Translator experience | ATE: hosted side-by-side, MT prefill, TM, glossary | Same | Crowdin editor — comparable (TM, MT, glossary, QA checks, tasks/due dates) |
| Translator access | 10 per-language wp-admin roles (0 users hold them); 35 users carry the layered WPML translate capability | 46 users carry translate capability; no translator roles | ✅ Decided: no Drupal translator role — translators work only in Crowdin; review/publish of returned translations sits with content_manager / section editors |
| Priorities | Translation Priority taxonomy (Optional/Required/Not needed) | Same | ✅ Not migrated — Crowdin tasks/due dates replace it |
| Duplicate mode | Synced copies until "translate independently" | Same | ✅ Core language fallback covers it |
| Missing translation URL | WPML serves language fallback per config | Same | ✅ Decided: 301 to the source-language URL (keeps link equity) |
| UI strings / forms / menus | WPML String Translation + Menus Sync | Same | locale + config translation (webforms × languages is the largest surface); menu link labels translate in place |
| Localized slugs | Every translation owns its slug | Same | pathauto per language from translated titles + preserve migrated aliases |
| Translation memory | Years of ATE TM | Same | 🔧 Seed Crowdin TM from migrated translation pairs — don't start empty |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vocabularies | Categories 368 (hierarchical, default "Diving" auto-assigned) + Tags 8,959 (flat) | Categories 753 + Tags 7,088 | ✅ Decided: separate per-section vocabularies — blog categories/tags AND pros-blog categories/tags migrate independently. No cross-site merging or de-duplication. Hierarchy + term translations preserved; orphan terms dropped |
| Default category | "Diving" auto-assigned when none chosen | Own default | ✅ Presave default (same hook as primary-category default) |
| Primary category | Yoast picker (~9.6k posts) | Yoast picker | ✅ field_primary_category + presave default (built) |
| Term archives | /category/<slug>/, /tag/<slug>/ per site | Same | Per-section Views routes: /blog/category|tag/<slug>/ and /pros-blog/category|tag/<slug>/ (per language with prefix) |
| Term slug changes | No auto-redirect (manual) | Same | ✅ Better: pathauto + redirect auto-301 |
| Translation Priority taxonomy | WPML workflow metadata | Same | ✅ Not migrated (replaced by Crowdin tasks) |
| Category term 81 quirk | Hero fallback excludes "News & Events" | Same code excludes "TecRec" (same ID, different term) | ✅ Moot — the site-wide fallback hero is not carried over (empty authors get profile + message), so no exclusion rule is needed |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entity model | 542k attachment rows (31.7k unique files) — WPML duplicates per language | 446k rows (~20k unique files) | Adopted approach: per-language media entities retained where WP has translations (mirrors WPML); unique files transfer once (~52k files, WP resize derivatives skipped — Drupal regenerates). Alt/caption/description migrate from attachment fields |
| Bundles | Images (~99%), PDFs/Office (13k PDFs on pros), local video files, ZIPs | media: image · document · video_file · remote_video (future) · archive | |
| Library UX | Grid + list; year/month folders | Same | ✅ One shared Media Library across sections (no section silo); files under public://blogs/Y/M + public://pros-blogs/Y/M; DAM integration = phase-2 re-homing of file URIs (no re-migration) |
| Image sizes | thumbnail 200×200 · archive 550×347 · medium/large/core set | thumbnail 150×150 · archive 600×400 · hero 2000×720 (pros-only) | ~11 image styles: 8 shared + section-scoped variants for the two name collisions (blog_thumbnail/pros_thumbnail, blog_archive/pros_archive) + pros hero; focal_point replaces blind crops |
| Alt text | Optional, inconsistent | Same | ✅ Can be made required (a11y win) |
| SVG | Allowed (svg-support) | Same | 🔧 SVG media type + sanitization |
| Usage tracking | "Uploaded to" column only | Same | ✅ Better: entity_usage |
| Pixel editor | Built-in crop/rotate/scale | Same | ❌ No core equivalent; focal point + styles cover real cases |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menus | 8 menus, 1 location; items picked from content lists; WPML Menus Sync | Own menu set, same mechanics | menu_link_content (autocomplete links); labels translate in one menu; FE fetches by machine name (jsonapi_menu_items); nav_menu_item/wp_navigation rows not migrated as content |
| Widget areas | Sidebar, Footer 1–5, Mobile Language Chooser, Header Ad Block Code | Similar classic areas | FE components; reusable editorial content only via the padi_widget block bundle |
| Widget Logic | 2 live PHP rules (in_category(Americas), !language_is(en)) | Not active | Re-express in FE visibility logic |
| Customizer | Header/Background mods | Same + empty GA field | Gone — FE owns presentation |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 (target architecture) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Role set | 20 roles | 9 roles | ✅ Decided: administrator · blog_admin (above all blog/pros-blog roles) · content_editor (global: publish any section) · content_manager (publish/return/archive incl. translations) · blog_editor / blog_author · pros_blog_editor / pros_blog_author · authenticated. Bundle-scoped permissions come free from the split content types. 🔧 Role configs to land in repo (current content_editor config is author-grade and needs rework) |
| WP editor (69 / 91) | Edit + publish everything on their site | → blog_editor / pros_blog_editor per source site (union if on both) | |
| WP author + contributor (60 / 30) | Own drafts; contributors can't publish | → blog_author / pros_blog_author — draft + submit to Initial Review; no publish | |
| WP administrator (14 / 11) | Full control | → administrator | |
| Translators | translate capability layered on 35 users; per-language roles exist but hold 0 users | 46 layered; no translator roles | ✅ Decided: no Drupal translator role — translation happens in Crowdin; these users get Crowdin accounts (⚠️ any who also author content need an editorial role) |
| PADI Admin (Read Only) (8 / 7) | Theme-enforced read-only (wp_die on POST) | ✅ Decided: not migrated — Axelerant-internal accounts | |
| SEO Manager/Editor, Revisor, Event Contributor | Registered; zero users hold them | ❌ Skipped | |
| Subscribers + no-role users (1+40 / 5+25) | Read-only or legacy authors | → authenticated; no-role users additionally blocked (preserves bylines on migrated content) | |
| Deduplication | Same people hold accounts on both sites | Merge by email; blog username wins collisions; role set = union; authorship reassigned to the merged user; import users before content | |
| End users / members | ProfilePress stack | — | ✅ Out of scope — Cognito on FE |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| URL | /author/<slug>/ (per language) | Same | ✅ Decided: per-section routes — /blog/author/<slug> and /pros-blog/author/<slug> (+ language prefix); redirects map old author URLs per section |
| Layout | Hero (author's latest) → profile → listing 6/page (newest skipped into hero) | Hero only — archive.php lacks an is_author() branch (accident) | ✅ Built: full layout on both sections (deliberate upgrade for pros) — design per padi.duckdiver.net/author/elliotpelling/; hero banner = the author's latest published post |
| Language behavior | Per-language hero+listing; author with posts only in another language → fallback hero, profile hidden | Hero per language | Per-language; no published post in the viewed language → profile + graceful message (decided) |
| Author w/ no posts | 200 + site-latest fallback hero — never 404 for existing users (verified) | Same (verified) | ✅ Decided: show the author profile with a graceful message — no fallback hero, no 404 (improves on WP); unknown author → 404 comes free |
| Quirks | Author 43 avatar hidden; author 94 = no ads | — | Not reproduced; FE decisions |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| URL patterns | /<slug>/ at domain root; localized slugs per language | Same | padi.com/blog/<slug> · padi.com/pros-blog/<slug> · /<lang>/ prefix for non-English; pathauto per bundle+language; migrated localized aliases preserved |
| Domain move | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Old domains 301 at DNS/CDN edge to padi.com sections; in-Drupal redirect module handles path-level mapping incl. _wp_old_slug history |
| Redirect stores | Redirection: 6,137 (+regex +404 log) plus Yoast Premium auto-redirects | Redirection only | ⚠️ Decision needed: whether the WP redirect stores are migrated at all — not in scope by default. If yes: import + dedupe into redirect module, regex rules → Cloudflare edge (redirect core has no regex). Structural redirects (old domains/paths → new section URLs, slug history) are separate and remain in scope |
| Slug change behavior | Yoast Premium auto-redirect offer | Manual | ✅ Better: automatic 301 on alias change (nodes and terms) |
| 404 monitoring | Redirection 404 log | Same | ✅ redirect_404 |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta tags | Yoast per-post + templates | Same (free tier) | 3 layers: per-node field_meta_tags (migrated from _yoast_wpseo_*) → per-bundle token defaults (section branding: "| PADI Blog" vs "| PADI Pros") → global defaults. Metatag-v2 computed field feeds Next.js generateMetadata over JSON:API |
| Indexable pages | Published content, front, category/tag archives, author-with-posts (verified index,follow) | Same | FE emits robots from metatag data; parity per route type |
| Noindexed | Date archives, search, empty-author, format archives (verified) | Same | FE route rules replicate |
| Unlisted posts | noindex on page but still in XML sitemap (144; verified leak) | Same plugin | ✅ Fix: FE noindex + sitemap exclusion together |
| Per-post noindex overrides | 46 published posts (editor-set) | Same capability | 🔧 Migrate into per-node metatag values or they go indexable |
| OG/Twitter images | Yoast social tab; few explicit overrides (~14 / ~38) | Same | Only explicit overrides migrate; og:image falls back to featured image via tokens |
| Sitemaps | post/page/video/category/tag/author | Same minus video | 🔧 simple_sitemap per language; excludes drafts/in-review/archived; hreflang alternates via metatag + content_translation |
| Structured data | Yoast schema graph | Same | FE-composed JSON-LD (Article, WebPage/CollectionPage, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage from the FAQ component) from JSON:API fields; schema_metatag only if CMS-managed overrides are wanted |
| Yoast analysis | Premium: readability, link suggestions, cornerstone | Free: keyword analysis | field_yoast_seo: focus keyword migrates; keyword/snippet analysis in-form. ❌ No readability score in the Drupal module (verified) — editorial-process substitute recommended |
| robots.txt | Allow all + CCBot blocked | Allow all, no CCBot block | ⚠️ FE robots.txt — one deliberate AI-crawler policy for both sections |
| Element | blog.padi.com | pros-blog.padi.com | Drupal 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager | GTM-MQW3Z7 — theme hardcodes on 404+search; plugin configured (prod) | GTM-MQW3Z7 site-wide via plugin (verified) | 🔧 GTM lives entirely in the Next.js front end (no google_tag module); per-section GA properties inside the container; exclude/separate preview routes |
| Direct GA (gtag) | None — via GTM | Hardcoded gtag block with empty ID (no-op) | n/a — FE/GTM only |
| Click events | data-event attributes (Hero/Featured/Read Article) → gtag events | Same markup pattern | FE analytics events on equivalent components |
| A/B testing | VWO 262586 site-wide with anti-flicker | None | ⚠️ Decide VWO's future — nothing re-adds it by default |
| Facebook SDK | Site-wide | None | ⚠️ FE decision |
| Popularity counter | WP Popular Posts per-view logging (feeds trending) | Same | ⚠️ Popularity source for trending components (GA-based or custom counter) |
| Untracked areas | wp-admin; unpublished. Preview + unlisted URLs fire all trackers | Same | ✅ Opportunity: exclude preview from analytics cleanly |