Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 Migration Workshop

Course Description

This course will cover how to move your content and configuration into Drupal 9. Whether you’re coming from Drupal 6 or 7, or another platform, you’ll learn how to migrate your content into Drupal, the overall process of mapping functionality to Drupal 9, and how migrations fit into the overall process of building out your Drupal 9 site.

The course takes Drupal 10 readiness into account, so you’ll also be ready for Drupal 10’s release or to migrate directly to Drupal 10, depending on the timing of your migration project.

Learning Objectives  

You'll come away with knowledge of:   

1. How to plan and execute your migration project

• Examples from similar migration projects: challenges, workflows, and best practices
• Differences between Drupal 7 and 9 from a migration perspective
• Technical requirements for hosting a Drupal 9 website
• Setting up your migration environment and command line tools for migrations (Composer, Drush)

2. Upgrading Modules to Drupal 9

• Selecting which modules require upgrade, which to remove, and which are no longer needed in Drupal 9
• Tools for upgrading modules automatically
• Checklist for upgrading your modules to Drupal 9, including modules without upgrade paths

3. Writing a Migration

• Overview of Migrate API, migration tools and best practices
• Overview of Migration plugins
• Mapping your fields from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9
• Example migrations involving nodes, taxonomies, and Paragraphs.
• Debugging migrations
• Troubleshooting issues during migration from Drupal 7 to 9 - tools and techniques