Drupal 7 Approaching End of Life and Merging Two Brands
Note: this project was completed prior to Drupal’s announcement that Drupal 7 would be extended through November 2023
Drupal 7 will be over a decade old in November 2022. The internet was a very different place when D7 was released. Newer versions of Drupal, like D9, are built on top of Symfony, which will make future migrations easier. They use more modern object oriented programming or OOP.
People have started to notice certain flaws as Drupal 7 has gotten older, like how server intensive it is. New versions of Drupal are built for the way people access content today. Migrating out of D7 is a lot of work, but by migrating, you hopefully will get a CMS that better serves you and your users’ needs.
BJE LA approached 95Visual with a Drupal 7 website that was expected to reach End of Life in November 2022. The previous web provider they had worked with was no longer supporting Drupal and could not assist them in migrating to Drupal 9, so leadership chose to upgrade to D9 with a website rebuild. As part of the upgrade/rebuild process BJE decided to redesign the site as well.
95Visual has helped many other clients just like BJE migrate from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 or Drupal 9. For more detail on the migration check out this blog post by James our Sr. DevOps.