With D7 end-of-life coming on Jan 5, 2025, we were migrating all our sites off Drupal 7 starting Jan 1, 2024, carefully selecting platforms that were best fit for the needs of each organization. CPQCC, one of the sites we have supported since 2018, faced a challenge familiar to many organizations: modernizing on a tight budget.
Nota Bene
Presenting at DrupalGovCon: Budgeting for Drupal 7 End of Life
August 13, 2024
It was great to see you old friends and meet new friends - thank you, DrupalGovCon, for accepting my talk. In the session we talked about the options currently available for the 300,000 sites still on Drupal 7. We covered upgrading to Drupal 10, upgrading to BackdropCMS, using the Retrofit module, and exploring various options for Drupal Long Term Support (LTS).
Here are some key takeaways for those who attended the session
- Checklist of migration tasks
- Modules for auditing current site and for making migration smoother
- Site audit
- D10/11 Upgrade Status (upgrade_status)
- Backdrop CMS upgrade status (backdrop_upgrade_status)
Budgeting for Drupal 7 End of Life: presentation at GovCon
August 10, 2024
Aug 13 2024
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F09-4dqQ9cGkl0BnqyVBOKIzXzffcpawu4s9RQCPa8I/edit#slide=id.p1
In this session, we will review the options currently available for the 300,000 sites still on Drupal 7. We will cover upgrading to Drupal 10, upgrading to BackdropCMS, using the Retrofit module, and exploring various options for Drupal Long Term Support (LTS).
IEEE magazine publication Improving Velocity of Code Contributions in Open Source
June 4, 2024
It is very exciting to see our research on improving Open Source Contributions published in IEEE magazine
Improving Velocity of Code Contributions in Open Source
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10547075
Computer
2024-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2023.3327893
CONTRIBUTORS: Irina Zaks; Timothy Lehnen; Aaron Zaks
Embedding Views in Paragraphs and Views
May 21, 2024
What are options for embedding views inside fields and nodes?
CK5 editor - old features, new buttons
May 17, 2024
Out of the box CK5 editor has new ways of dealing with files and images, and can be configured differently in Backdrop and Drupal
Backdrop CMS out of the box
Live from DrupalCon - Migrating D7 site on Pantheon to BackdropCMS on Pantheon
May 8, 2024
This is live notes with Greg Andreson in Pantheon booth at DrupalCon 2024
Follow the Checklist and migrate your D7 site to BackdropCMS site with us in 1hour 14 min 03sec!
Stanford Webcamp: BackdropCMS in Higher Ed: Stanford and Penn State case studies
May 2, 2024
Learn how Higher Ed leverages power of Backdrop CMS for various use cases - from building new sites to upgrades from Drupal 7 before EOL. Topics include business case, selecting hosting platform, authentication, training for users and many other challenges.
The presentation will transition into open discussion about using Backdrop in Higher ed and non-profit space.
Growing list of websites that we migrated to Backdrop
April 23, 2024
Why did these teams selected to migrate to BackdropCMS? Because this CMS that combines power of Drupal with efficiency of Wordpress also can meet their budget.
- Direct upgrade from Drupal 7, not rebuild, thus preserving existing features of the site without major work
- Stakeholders were already trained in administration and would just need to learn about the improvements to what they know rather than a brand new system.
- Cost-effective upgrade process, theming and configuration.
“We have a fiduciary duty to our university. We take stewardship of funds and resources seriously. With Backdrop on Pantheon, we were able to save nearly half a million dollars!"
-Zach Chandler, Director, Research IT and Innovation at Stanford University
Join the Migration Movement
February 12, 2024
Ambitious Projects with Constrained Budgets: That is our daily job.
Drupal 7, a trusted and reliable CMS, is reaching its end-of-life on January 5, 2025. While it's served us well, it's time to embrace the future and explore new possibilities. As we prepare to bid farewell to the beloved version, Drupal 7 still supports over 350,000 sites.