Upgrading to Drupal 8: Benefits and Gotchas
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The document outlines the benefits and challenges of upgrading to Drupal 8, highlighting features such as improved content authoring, user interface enhancements, and performance gains. It discusses potential issues including the need for object-oriented programming knowledge and the transition of contributed modules. The upgrade process involves creating a new site, migrating content, and utilizing various tools for testing and deployment.
Upgrading to Drupal 8: Benefits and Gotchas
- 1. UPGADING TO DRUPAL 8: BENEFITS AND GOTCHAS evolvingweb.ca @evolvingweb
- 2. Drupal Consulting, Development, and Training evolvingweb.ca Suzanne Dergacheva, Co-founder @suzanne_kennedy
- 4. • DrupalCon New Orleans • Projects Managers - May 9 • Ottawa • D8 Introduction - April 20 • D8 Theming - April 21-22 • D7 in 5 Days - June 6-10 • Atlanta • D8 Introduction - May 16 • D8 Theming - May 17 • Chicago • D8 Introduction - May 18 • D8 Theming - May 19-20 • Calgary • D8 in 5 Days - May 30 to June 3 • Montreal • D8 Introduction at DrupalNorth - June 16 evolvingweb.ca/training/upcoming
- 5. Benefits of Drupal 8
- 7. Node Edit Page Layout
- 10. Quick Edit Tool
- 14. Adding Fields
- 15. Translation UI
- 19. Install in another Language
- 20. Multilingual Modules in Core
- 21. Consistent Translation of Content and Configuration • Content Entities: • Menu items • Nodes • Blocks • Taxonomy Terms • Users • Config Entities: • Vocabularies • Content Types • Block types • Menus • Views You’ll see translate links next to everything:
- 23. More Field Types! in Core
- 24. New Field Types
- 25. Contact forms in Core!
- 31. Panels & Context? • Context has an alpha release • Panels isn’t ready yet • …coming soon!
- 32. Views in Core
- 33. Views in Core
- 34. Views Plugin Modules • Views Slideshow is ready, also Jssor • Many other plugins aren’t ready yet
- 36. Accessibility
- 37. Accessibility Improvements • WAI-ARIA • HTML5 • Alt tags required by default • More accessible CKEditor • Labels can be visually hidden Series of blog posts on openconcept.ca
- 38. Gotcha: Users Can Still Add Inaccessible Content
- 39. Speed
- 40. Performance Improvements • CSS and JavaScript aggregation turned on by default • No Javascript is loaded for anonymous users by default • Entity cache module is now in core • Cache tags allow for much more granular cache clearing when updates are made • No more overlay module
- 42. Gotchas • Drupal 8 core is bigger than Drupal 7, but can be faster with caching • Still use Memcache and Varnish as part of your deployment • You have to add a local settings file to turn off caching and aggregation on dev
- 43. Under the Hood
- 44. Configuration Management Dev LiveTest Configuration Files and Content
- 45. Front-End Improvements • Twig templating system • Libraries for loading CSS/JS • Twig debug • New core themes to extend: Stable and Classy
- 46. Back-End Improvements • Based on Symphony • Object Oriented Programming • EntityInterface provides consistent handling of translation of content and configuration • Developer tools! • Drupal Console • Drupal Module Upgrader • PHP Storm (everyone’s using it for D8)
- 47. Gotchas • Drupal 8 requires PHP 5.5.9 or higher • You have to learn object-oriented programming • The code for themes and modules (especially modules) has changed significantly • Many contributed modules haven’t been upgraded yet
- 48. Contrib
- 49. Are You Using Contributed Modules? https://evolvingweb.ca/blog/choosing-modules-and-themes-for-drupal-8
- 50. Are You Using a Distribution?
- 53. Our Upgrade Process • Create the new Drupal 8 site • Install modules, configure the site • Migrate content from Drupal 7 site (blog posts) • Migrate new content from a Drupal 8 content staging site • Testing & Deployment https://youtu.be/9WG5l2dBeDc
- 54. Drupal 8 Migrate Drupal 6 or 7 Drupal 8 Content & Config https://www.drupal.org/node/2257723
- 55. Migrate Gotchas • There won’t be a migration path for everything • You might run into problems with multilingual content • You can customize what you want to migrate using the Migrate Manifest module • You’ll have more flexibility using the drush commands than the UI
- 56. Required Customizations • Migration of multilingual content entities • Copy only the files needed • Migration for paths and redirects • Added HTTP Auth to migrate • Import .po files to only import our new custom translations
- 57. Upgrade Tools • Scripted the build process • Site Diff for testing: github.com/evolvingweb/ sitediff • Behat for integration testing • Docker for deployment http://2016.midcamp.org/session/test-driven-drupal-upgrades
- 58. • DrupalCon New Orleans • Projects Managers - May 9 • Ottawa • D8 Introduction - April 20 • D8 Theming - April 21-22 • D7 in 5 Days - June 6-10 • Atlanta • D8 Introduction - May 16 • D8 Theming - May 17 • Chicago • D8 Introduction - May 18 • D8 Theming - May 19-20 • Calgary • D8 in 5 Days - May 30 to June 3 • Montreal • D8 Introduction at DrupalNorth - June 16 evolvingweb.ca/training/upcoming
- 59. Questions?