Updated Most of the 7.x stuff - still getting errors

  • Posted on: 10 December 2022
  • By: Jay Oyster

OK, I've updated about 20 different modules in the Drupal instance, including Chaos, Views, Media, Calendar, iCal, Five Star, and a bunch more, including attempts to update the Adaptive Theme. That latter doesn't seem to be 'taking'.

Anyway, I'm creating backups and working on doing the migration to v9 of Drupal. Unfortuanately, my understanding is that I need to do that through a copy/paste type deal. So I have to stand up a whole new instance at v9, and then migrate the content from the v7 to the v9 site. And then I'll have to fix everything that that breaks, which I expect to be a lot of stuff.

The big thing I'm going to miss is that I finally got the editing environment the way I like it. The Wysiwyg module and the various media and bulk media and photo upload and edit tools work great.  (Well, the bulk photo situation is not great, but editing individual stories is just the way I want it.) Hopefully the pain of going through this, and getting many of those 'add-ons' rolled into the core of Drupal will make stuff like bulk photo uploads work much better. We shall see.

So I've done a backup of the site itself using an updated version of the Backup and Migrate module (the most nail-bitey of the module updates I've done so far, but it seems to have worked.)  But now I need to log into the server itself and do my database backup. (sigh) Every time I do this, I have to re-learn it, since I only do it about once a year.

...I better get to it.

Part 2: Updated the footer to change copyright from 2020 to 2022. (It's in a Block. easy to edit. I had forgotten I'd fixed that to make it easier to get to.)

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