The article delves into the challenges of migrating content between different editorial solutions within the Drupal ecosystem and explores the importance of comprehensive review methods.
The checklist covers various aspects, including evaluating the current website, planning the migration strategy, data migration, module and theme compatibility, content audit, SEO considerations, testing, and post-migration tasks.
Drupal 10 offers enhanced security features and ongoing support, ensuring the protection of sensitive government data. It also provides improved performance and scalability.
The article introduces NixOS and its advantages for managing a Drupal website. It explains the concept of NixOS profiles and how they can be used to create a reproducible environment for hosting Drupal.
The blog post highlights the use of the Entity Field API, which provides a standardized way to work with field values and simplifies the process of accessing and manipulating them.
The blog post also emphasizes the efforts involved in the migration process. The team at Drupalize.me worked diligently to update their custom modules, themes, and other components to be compatible with Drupal 9.
Irina Zaks conducted a session on ‘Providing a Soft Landing for Drupal 7 Site Owners.’ Irina had earlier launched the ‘Drupal 7 Soft Landing Initiative’ which is focused on helping these Drupal 7 site owners move forward by providing them with the tools and resources they need to get off of Drupal 7.
Drupal 10 offers an improved composable architecture, scalability, performance, and security, while being easily upgradable across major updates. However, upgrading may be hampered by missing resources, the complexity of modern technology, or missing functionality due to not yet updated modules.
Compared to Drupal 7, the view and facets in Drupal 9 is slightly different. This resulted in slightly different URLs being used when the user filters the search results. But the search engines that had indexed the older URLs from Drupal 7 site regularly crawl the search page using the older links.
While migrating to a higher version of Drupal, it is crucial to focus on the continuity of SEO migration and to plan dedicated strategies to avoid losing all the work done on SEO-optimized content.