For Plone alternatives, content migration must preserve publication controls as well as pages.
- Export a connected section with images, relationships, metadata, and translations.
- Recreate draft, review, publication, and archive states with the correct roles.
- Verify search, navigation, accessibility, and old URL redirects.
- Compare revision history, content APIs, deployment, and security update process.
- Ask editors to publish one real article in the trial system.
A visually similar site can still lose approval gates or private content boundaries. Test both with separate accounts before a public cutover.