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Migrations costs for D7 EOL
March 15, 2022

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

Notes from Backdrop Live March 2022
March 14, 2022

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

 

Drupal 7 End-of-Life date will be re-evaluated annually
February 23, 2022

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.   

D7 to BackdropCMS migration on Pantheon: WebUI+SFTP option
February 2, 2022

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.