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Worried about the future of your Drupal 7 website? With Drupal 7 reaching end-of-life in January 2025, many site owners and developers are facing a tough decision: migrate to a new version of Drupal or to a new platform altogether, or risk running an unsupported site.

Mauricio Dinarte

Migration How-To: #16

So far we have migrated three entity types: content types, taxonomy vocabularies, and paragraphs. It is very common that fields are attached to those, and other entities, to collect and display data. Field migrations can be tricky. For one, it is a multi-step process that requires, at a minimum, four different migrations.

Mauricio Dinarte

Migrations How-To: #15

In the previous article, we began migrating configuration from Drupal 7 example site to our Drupal 10 instance, specifically content types. In today's article, we will continue with two more D7 entities: taxonomy vocabularies and field collections. The latter will be imported as Paragraphs in Drupal 10. Along the way, we will review the content model and the migration plan. This will help us determine what parts of the migration should be automated and what...

Mauricio Dinarte

Migration How-to: #14

This step-by-step series has covered a lot of ground on planning and preparing for a Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 migration. Today, we start putting that knowledge into practice by automatically migrating content types. First, we will execute a migration to pull all content types in Drupal 7. Then, we will customize the migration to remove unnecessary content types. Finally, we will learn how a separate node title label migration also affects content type configuration...

Michael Meyers

Tag1 Team Talk

Join us as Andrei Mateescu demonstrates the Workspaces module's powerful capabilities for enterprise-level Drupal sites. Discover how the module allows preview and management of extensive content changes and integrates with core functionalities like translations and Layout Builder. Although currently labeled experimental, Workspaces is already in use in production environments and will become a stable part of Drupal Core.

Mauricio Dinarte

Migration How-to: #13

Our last article explored the syntax and structure of migration files. Today, we are diving deeper into the most important part of a migration: the process pipeline. This determines how source data will be processed and transformed to match the expected destination structure. We will learn how to configure and chain process plugins, how to set subfields and deltas for multi-value fields, and to work with source constants and pseudo-fields.

Mauricio Dinarte

Migration How-to: #12

In the previous article, we saw what a migration file looks like. We made some changes without going too deep into explaining the syntax or structure of the file. Today, we are exploring the language in which migration files are written and the different sections it contains.

Mauricio Dinarte

Migration How-to: #11

Previously, we explored generating migrations using the Migrate Upgrade module and managing them with Migrate Plus. Today, we cover migration plugins from Drupal Core. The two main methods differ in file patterns, locations, and change detection. Learn how to organize your code effectively and customize your approach for optimal results. This article is packed with practical tips and insights to make your migration smoother and more efficient. Get ahead of the curve – read our...

Jeremy Andrews

At the beginning of May, over a thousand people converged on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, for four days packed with announcements, learning opportunities, and comradery with the larger Drupal community. Among the many attendees, twenty-eight members of the Tag1 Team joined sessions, discussions, and led three impactful presentations – including the introduction of Gander as part of the Initiatives Keynote. Now that our team has slept off the jetlag and unpacked their...

Mauricio Dinarte

Migration How-to: #10

In the previous article we performed an automated migration via the administration interface with tools provided by Drupal core out of the box. This gave us the opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the different modules that assist with the task, settings that affect the migration, and the results when there are no customizations in place.