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We completed our first Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 upgrade

January 23, 2021 / By Ferdinand / Comments
Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 migration
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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Drupal

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

October 31, 2020 / By Ferdinand / Comments
Drush - command line shell for Drupal
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.
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Drupal
Utilities

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

July 28, 2020 / By Ferdinand / Comments
Converting from manual management of Drupal to Composer-based
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.
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Composer
Drupal

Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020 as scheduled

June 26, 2020 / By Ferdinand / Comments
Drupal 9 logo
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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Drupal

How about headless Drupal, I mean decoupled Drupal?

February 29, 2020 / By Ferdinand / Comments
Coupled vs decoupled Drupal
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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CMS
Drupal

Drupal 9 is coming this June

January 24, 2020 / By Ferdinand / Comments
The road to Drupal 9
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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Drupal
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