Updating Your Website to Drupal 7

Upgrading Your Website to Drupal 7 Jacob Singh Erik Webb Matt Ackley Principal Engineer Technical Consultant Marketing Acquia Acquia Acquia @jacobsingh @erikwebb @mbackleyThursday, February 3, 2011

Upcoming Webinars Thursday February 10th 1pm Eastern Time, 12 pm UTC –OpenPublish Webinar: Work ow for Editors Register Today - http://acquia.com/webinarsThursday, February 3, 2011

Upcoming Training Events - February & March 2011 http://training.acquia.com/events March 1-3, Geneva, Switzerland February 7 - 9, Manchester, UK – Drupal in a Day – Drupal in a Day – Site Building with Drupal – Site Building with Drupal March 7-9, Edinburgh, Scotland February 23-25, Leuven, Belgium – Drupal in a Day – Drupal Module Development – Site Building with Drupal Throughout February - March in Victoria, March 21-24, Washington DC Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal – Drupal in a Day Canada – Site Building with Drupal – Drupal in a Day March 29-31, Paris, France – Site Building with Drupal – Drupal in a Day – Theming and Module Development – Site Building with Drupal Register for Drupal Training in your areaThursday, February 3, 2011

Introduction Jacob Singh –Principal Engineer, Acquia Erik Webb –Technical Consultant, AcquiaThursday, February 3, 2011

Introduction What are the new features worth upgrading for? What is the status of D7 in the wild? What you need to know to decide if you should upgradeThursday, February 3, 2011

What’s new?Thursday, February 3, 2011

Built in content elds system Site owners Easier to create exible content More exible for integrations Developers Standardized method to enhance content types Applicable to all entities, not just nodes.Thursday, February 3, 2011

Vastly improved user experience Site owners More consistent interfaces Lower barrier to Drupal 7 adoption Developers Updated jQuery and jQuery UI Drupal 6 re-usable widgets Less time training users documentingThursday, February 3, 2011

More database support Developers Open database API ORM layer Site owners Support for enterprise- standard DB’s (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL)Thursday, February 3, 2011

More scalable than ever Site owners Support for enterprise- sized infrastructures from normal Drupal SOFTWARE package Developers Support for Varnish, CDNs, etc Pluggable storage to allow noSQL object cachesThursday, February 3, 2011

Automated code testing Site owners Continuous bug testing to eliminate regressions, rock-solid bug-free* software Developers Built-in feature testing framework More stable coreThursday, February 3, 2011

More powerful installation pro les Site owners Greater ability to implement foundations that can be re-used for many diﬀerent clients Developers Easier-to-build distributions for rapid developmentThursday, February 3, 2011

More on what’s new http://acquia.com/resources/webinars/drupal-7-top-40-core- modules-and-what-they-mean-you http://drupal.org/drupal-7-released Slides with links will http://drupal.org/about/new-in-drupal-7 be published at: http://www.slideshare.net/ AcquiaInc http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7 http://www.drupalgardens.com/ http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/more-than-50- drupal-modules-moved-into-drupal-7Thursday, February 3, 2011

Drupal 7 is readyThursday, February 3, 2011

Sites running Drupal 7 today http://drupalgardens.com –Running 35k+ Drupal 7 sites and more every day http://examiner.com –Very large news site http://chicagopublicmedia.org/ –Portal for public media in Chicago Thousands more at –http://groups.drupal.org/node/113489Thursday, February 3, 2011

15+ books on Drupal 7Thursday, February 3, 2011

Reasons to upgrade now Great new features New development happening on 7 –Module developers will be adding new features to D7 so your site is getting more out of date as time goes on. Ride the wave –There is a lot of focus on upgrades now. If you’re building new functionality in 6, you will have to rebuild / upgrade it later.Thursday, February 3, 2011

Upgrading your site (the condensed version)Thursday, February 3, 2011

Assessment What modules am I using in D6? Which modules have been moved to core? What modules have D7 upgrades? What about my custom code?Thursday, February 3, 2011

Update statusThursday, February 3, 2011

Good start, but not enough.Thursday, February 3, 2011

Building an upgrade path Custom upgrade paths for modules Eﬀort to re-write custom code or port –Coder module Some modules don’t need an upgrade path Coder moduleThursday, February 3, 2011

Next steps You want to upgrade to D7 Estimate the work required to upgrade Develop an upgrade plan Identify the resources you’ll need to complete itThursday, February 3, 2011

Training @ DrupalCon - March 7th Upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7 Conduct upgrades of sites, identify pitfalls and gotchas Instructor Team: – Erik Webb - Professional Services, The Inspector – Jacob Singh - Engineer in Drupal Gardens, Mr. Media – Joshua Brauer - Client Advisor, Dr. Deployment Price: $450 http://chicago2011.drupal.org/training/upgrading-drupal-6-7Thursday, February 3, 2011

Training @ DrupalCon - March 7th Upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7 How to plan for your upgrade What are the tools to help you succeed The current state of major modules and the tricks to upgrade them cleanly The upgrade procedure - how to minimize downtime and risk Rebuilding vs upgrading Buy the training pass when you buy your DrupalCon ticket. Already registered? You can add training to your ticket purchase.Thursday, February 3, 2011

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