Your theme is going to be the area with the least support for automation in your migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9. This will not only help gain buy-in from all parties, it will provide a roadmap for your migration and a way to validate it. We highly recommend a content modeling exercise that maps your current data model in Drupal 7 to a proposed data model in Drupal 8/9. It is important to plan your migration path before starting with your migration. Again, contrib results may vary if your using complex fields/child entities and if you have any custom data structures, well, that's going to be a custom migration as well! For example, if you want to take advantage of Layout Builder for your landing pages, your content model/entity structure is going to need to change pretty dramatically.ĭrupal 8/9's core migrate module comes with Drupal 7 source plugins which allow developers to easily connect to Drupal 7's data model and map the content to Drupal 8. This as-is migration path works great for very simple use cases, but it likely limits your ability to take advantage of new features/content authoring tools built in Drupal 8. Support for contrib module upgrades vary, but these can be developed if required. There are tools to migrate your core entity structures such as Content Types, Taxonomies, etc. Migration tools are awesome and leading up the pack is the Migration module which has a ton of great work to support a Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9 migration of your data model. Content modeling should be discussed and your team should put together a migration plan before you get started. Drupal 8 has incorporated some awesome updates into core and content authoring was a key core initiative. When upgrading from Drupal 7, it is also important to think about improvements to the content authoring experience. Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 are built on the same framework and the only difference Migration Tools and As-is Migrations
List out all of the contributed modules you use:.Today, we want to share the questionnaire we use with our clients to help them decide which path to take.
#SEVEN DRUPAL HOSTING UPGRADE#
With the new upgrade paths between the major versions of Drupal, contrib adoption of Drupal 9 is significantly faster than previous versions. How do I determine if I should migrate to Drupal 8 or Drupal 9? The good news is that the upgrade from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 has a clean path, and does not require a migration. First, let's tackle the question "Should I migrate to Drupal 8 or Drupal 9?" The answer to this question is: It depends! This is really going to depend on your website and it's unique requirements. Great, so now that we have that out of the way, lets talk about the migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9. Drupal 7 Paid Extended Support: November 2025+.Drupal 7 End of Life: November 2022 (Extended due to COVID-19).Let's start out with some key dates/information:
As you probably know by now, there is no clean upgrade path from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and you are coming to a point where upgrading is a necessity to keep your website and your business protected. Today we are going to talk about the upgrade (migration) from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9.
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