So You Have To Migrate Your Site: A No-Stress Guide to Migration API
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As many of us know, migrating your site to Drupal 8 includes not only refactoring your code, but also porting your content and making sure that the way the content is presented, searched, or structured remains functional in Drupal 8.
As a seasoned developer with a lot of sites to migrate, I needed a tool that would allow me to not only move content from older versions of Drupal to Drupal 8, but also to import it from third party vendors. Having it made it to through the seemingly untamed wilderness of the Migration API, I’m here to share my learnings and understandings on the inner-workings of it. Join me as I share the knowledge I learned along the way and what I know now— it should prove helpful to anyone embarking on the same trek and help you ensure no part of your content is ever lost when upgrading your Drupal core.
What you will learn:
1. How Migration API flow works
2. How to create a Node migration script that includes entities
3. How to control the migration process
4. How to proceed next and how best to use Migration API