Moving our Company Site to Drupal 8: Break the Ice!
pixelite
jorgediazhav
In this presentation, we'll describe the process of moving our company website to a brand new Drupal 8 site created from scratch. The presentation will cover the overall upgrade process that could be applicable to any Drupal 7 to 8 upgrade. We'll discuss challenges that we faced, and some unique solutions that we developed along the way.
This session will be presented from a site builder's perspective, but we'll also discuss our high-level approach to migration and theming challenges. If you're a site builder undertaking a Drupal 7 to 8 upgrade project, you'll be able to learn from our mistakes and gain insight into some potential solutions
We'll focus on the following topics:
- Migration vs. rebuilding
- Mapping information architecture from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
- Using a staging site as a source for content migration
- Selecting Drupal 8 contrib modules
- Configuration of layout vs. theming
- Building on the Bootstrap base theme
- Multilingual site building challenges