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How I upgraded Budts.be to Drupal7. Part2

Date
2012-06-06 23:27
Tags
#drupal, #github, #inuits-planet, #opensource, #planet-drupal
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This is the second part of a series on how I upgraded my website from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. The sources for my website are freely available on my github account.

Automating as much as possible

When I started working on the new version of the site, I did not only want to be able to install the site from scratch. I also wanted the one-time upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 to be as smooth as possible. However, the life of a website doesn't stop once the initial deploy (or 're-deploy' in this case), is done. In fact, it only begins at that point. You will need to keep the site updated with new functionality and, more importantly, with security updates. Sadly, this deployment and updating is often an afterthought, or not done at all …

How I upgraded Budts.be to Drupal7. Part1

Date
2012-06-03 23:09
Tags
#drupal, #planet-drupal, #inuits-planet, #opensource, #github
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This is the first part of a series I plan to write on how I upgraded this site to Drupal 7. I have made all the sources available on my github account, as it can serve as an example on how to do Drupal development without database dumps. These are the parts I plan to write:

You can find the sources here: https://github.com/teranex/budts.be

Introduction

Nearly 1,5 years ago I decided that I wanted to migrate my Wordpress blog and two other custom sites into a single Drupal based website. At that time Drupal 7 was not yet final (or just a few days, can't remember exactly) and was not yet really in a usable state for a regular site without too much difficulties. So I went with Drupal 6 and I decided …