Thursday, April 22, 7-9pm EST
Online meeting details below
For our April meetup we'll look at a case study of of a Drupal 7 to 9 migration. 420Intel.ca is a news aggregate site for the cannabis industry. The existing site is an older Drupal 7 site, with a lot of unused configuration. The site is actively updated with multiple content items added daily.
Our challenge for this project was to:
- Find out what parts of the site we want to keep and migrate only those parts
- Manage an ongoing migration while merging new content for the new site with ongoing new content from the old site
- Incorporate a CDN for new and existing images
During this presentation you will see:
- A basic content-only migration from Drupal 7 to 9
- How to migrate just the parts of the site we want to keep (most nodes, taxonomy, user accounts ) and not the things we don't (blocks, menus etc.).
- Using migration groups to prevent configuration from being overridden when updating the migration (e.g. field settings).
- Migrating images from Drupal 7 Media to Drupal 9 Media Entities
- How to add new content during the migration for staging without conflicting with the ongoing migration (i.e. using the same nid)
Bonus:
- Our experience using a pre-built theme
- How to set up a CDN using Cloudfront + S3 for migrated images (this was tricky)
Presenter: Megan McDermott, Senior Front-End Developer at Woolwich Web Works
Online Meeting Details
This meeting will be held online using Big Blue Button. Big Blue Button does not require any client-side software and has been tested on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Thanks to Paul Nijjar for setting this up for us.
Link: https://webconference.kwlug.org/b/pau-gy9-fdg
Access code: 437443
Cross-posted to: Meetup