A Drupal 6 to 7 migration case study, covering content, users, user roles, Views, functionality and more, by Richard Carter of North East web design agency Peacock Carter. Originally held as part of Drupal North East in Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 30th November 2016 at Campus North.

1. Drupal 6 - 7
A case study of a Drupal 6 to 7
migration
@PeacockCarter

2. The history

3. A very old Drupal 6 site

4. Key features
“CPD” system for members
Online course/results
registration
Events
Jobs

5. Why migrate?

6. Drupal 6 EOL
24th February 2016

7. Newer theme

9. Wanted to extend online tools

10. Our plan
(Because everything goes to plan)

11. Website migration?
What could go wrong?!

12. Plan ahead!
- Research modules
- Discuss order to import
- Client content audit
(aka – what do you not still need?)
- Migrate
- Design & develop features
- Launch

13. Key points
- Legacy content
- “CPD” system for members
- Online course/results registration
- Events
- Content vital to their status

14. Migrate (d.o/project/migrate)
- Migrate users, roles, pages,
webforms
- Alex did this (sorry Alex!)

15. The outcome

16. Content migration
- Kind of worked for basic node
content and Views, too
- Some taxonomies missing
- File attachments

17. Views
- Import/export tools worked
really well!

18. Newer, responsive design

21. Pain points
- Content migration (expected!)
- Shear bulk of content,
especially files
- Legacy content vs responsive

22. Questions?
@PeacockCarter
hello@peacockcarter.com