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!
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.
“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
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.
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.
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.
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.
From my email to T.
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
Here are the sessions that I got to attend - lots of new information and lots of learning for me to do!
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.
