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Now, it's time for easy upgrades in Drupal

Posted by Ferdinand on February 18, 2022 | Comments
Drupal 8 reached its end-of-life on November 2, 2021. We started upgrading our Drupal 8 sites in October 2021 and by the end of November all our Drupal 8 sites were upgraded to Drupal 9. It did not feel like we were moving in between major versions, we didn't have to rebuild the sites or any of such. We experienced the new Drupal easy upgrades and we love it!

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We completed our first Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 upgrade

Posted by Ferdinand on January 23, 2021 | Comments
We just upgraded one of our Drupal 7 websites to Drupal 8 in our first major version migration experience. It was a friendly and seamless experience. We did not need any extra tool other than the migration tools in Drupal core. We migrated the content with the tools, created a new Drupal 8 theme, recreated the views (views are not migrated) and that was it!

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How to use 'drush' instead of 'vendor/bin/drush' to call Drush - cool Drupal tip

Posted by Ferdinand on October 31, 2020 | Comments
With Drupal adopting the use of Composer to manage code as from Drupal 8 upwards, this has also affected the installation of Drush. Now all you need is to run a single Composer command to install it. Composer installs Drush inside the 'vendor' directory and makes it available at vendor/bin/drush, but you want to use the traditional drush command and not vendor/bin/drush. What are ways you can achieve this? Check in and get the info.

How to change managing Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 sites from manual to Composer-based

Posted by Ferdinand on July 28, 2020 | Comments
As from version 8, Drupal recommends using Composer to manage dependencies. This has thrown off users who are not comfortable working in the command line. But using Composer to manage packages in Drupal is not explicitly required, it is only a recommendation. You can still manage Drupal version 8 and upwards just the way you managed version 7 being downloading and installing from tarball or installing with Softaculous - these methods are still valid with Drupal. But what if you started manually and now you want to switch over to Composer? Hop on the link and get the info on this.

Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020 as scheduled

Posted by Ferdinand on June 26, 2020 | Comments
Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020 as scheduled. This is the first major version release of Drupal that 'the big deal about it, is that it is not a big deal' because of the easy version 8 to 9 upgrade. 8 to 9 is the easiest Drupal upgrade in a decade and there is a commitment to easy upgrades going forward so Drupal will not replatform again. Get in and get the info.

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How about headless Drupal, I mean decoupled Drupal?

Posted by Ferdinand on February 29, 2020 | Comments
Since 1989 when Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the Web has spun off so immense and never-seen-before level of collaboration, invention and creativity. The Web has progressed from the early days of static websites (Web 1.0) to the time of interactive dynamic content (Web 2.0) which saw the emergence of CMSes. Now at Web 3.0, we are beginning to hear about headless CMS. What are these and how is Drupal keeping up with the new developments? Hop in and get the info.

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Drupal 9 is coming this June

Posted by Ferdinand on January 24, 2020 | Comments
Drupal 9 is scheduled to be released June 3, 2020, less than 5 months from now! What will the upgrade experience be like? How does this major version change differ from the past ones? How about Drupal 7 and 8? Hop in and get the info.

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How to install Drupal 10 with Composer in cPanel 'public_html' folder

Posted by Ferdinand on December 31, 2019 | Comments
Drupal 8 and above recommends using Composer to manage Drupal sites. From initiating projects, installing Drupal core, contributed modules and themes; to updating and managing them, Composer is recommended (but not required). Learn how to install Drupal 10 in cPanel 'public_html' folder using the new recommended template? As an aside, Drupal 10 is giving back power to site builders in many ways so they do not have to worry about Composer if they do not want to use it.

The new things in Drupal 8

Posted by Ferdinand on December 31, 2019 | Comments
Drupal 8 is the newest version of the Drupal CMS released in 2015. With the release came major changes in Drupal, it is a complete rewrite and lots of things changed (for the better). Drupal has been known for being so brave to break things in order to make giant leaps forward. So with version 8, the amazing and all-time successful Drupal 7 was broken (one would think this was unimaginable), I mean who will break such a successful CMS like Drupal 7 and what better product could you possibly make? But Drupal 8 has proven to be superior indeed, something better than Drupal 7, amazing!

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