D7 Soft Landing

Live from DrupalCon - Migrating D7 site on Pantheon to BackdropCMS on Pantheon

admin — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:39:59 +0000

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!

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Growing list of websites that we migrated to Backdrop

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:55:54 +0000

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

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D7 Soft Landing

Join the Migration Movement

admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:28:31 +0000

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.

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D7 Soft Landing Initiative: Sharpening migration tools, part 2

admin — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:30:47 +0000

Last year we spent time on sharpening audit tools - audit is the first step of any migration. This year BackdropCMS community released a new version of the D2B module. Take advantage of our automated migration tool for a fraction of the agency price. Check out our demo and get in touch for more details.

Link to module https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/d2b_migrate Video currently does not have audio or subtitles.

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Drupal 7 to BackdropCMS Migration for SiteBuilders

admin — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 01:34:02 +0000

Upgrading from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS involves migrating your website's content, configuration, and theme from the Drupal 7 platform to Backdrop CMS. Backdrop CMS is a fork of Drupal 7 that provides a more user-friendly and streamlined interface while retaining much of Drupal's functionality. I was doing a workshop on upgrade at the Backdrop Community meeting on July 20 as a port of D7 Soft Landing initiative.

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July series of BackdropCMS workshops aimed at educating and empowering users

admin — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:26:55 +0000

Drupal 7, a popular content management system that has served as the backbone for countless websites over the years has announced EOL in Jan 2025. With the official end of life for Drupal 7 fast approaching, the community-driven CMS alternative, BackdropCMS, has stepped up to support users through a series of workshops designed to ease the transition and help them migrate to a more sustainable solution.

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D7 to Backdrop migration resources

admin — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:43:30 +0000

From my email to T.

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Migrations costs for D7 EOL

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:00:33 +0000

While the Drupal security team has announced they are pushing back Drupal 7 EOL until November 1, 2023, that will come sooner than we think. This is not the time to be building new sites or new features on existing Drupal 7 sites. We can all use this extra time to thoughtfully migrate our sites into a CMS that will be supported long term.

So what does it take to migrate your site from Drupal 7 to a supported CMS on budget and on schedule? The first question is always: how much is this going to cost?

Here are some links to hosting services that we provide to our customers

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Notes from Backdrop Live March 2022

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:26:24 +0000

Here are the sessions that I got to attend - lots of new information and lots of learning for me to do!

https://events.backdropcms.org/sessions/showcase-americas-best-bootfitters
https://events.backdropcms.org/sessions/upgrading-to-backdrop-cms-from-drupal-7
https://events.backdropcms.org/sessions/stanford-joins-the-backdrop-community

Notes

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D7 Soft Landing

Drupal 7 End-of-Life date will be re-evaluated annually

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:21:52 +0000

Today announcement came out:

Therefore, we are announcing that moving forward, the scheduled Drupal 7 End-of-Life date will be re-evaluated annually. As of today, we are extending the end-of-life by one year to November 1, 2023.

Shows respect for a huge community that cannot afford to move to D9.

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D7 to BackdropCMS migration on Pantheon: WebUI+SFTP option

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 04:37:26 +0000

This blog post is based on instructions from various sources and shows step by step how we are moving D7 to Backdrop CMS within Pantheon hosting using WebUI+SFTP option. There are many other ways to do that, but this one works best for our team.

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