Migrating to Drupal 7
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- Learn how to import content and data into your Drupal 7 site from other websites, content management systems, and databases
- Upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 and migrate your CCK based content into the Drupal 7 fields based framework
- Use modules that will automate the import and migration process including the Feeds and Migrate modules.
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 158 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : December 2012
ISBN : 178216054X
ISBN 13 : 9781782160540
Author(s) : Trevor James
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Drupal, Open Source
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Preparing Drupal for Content Migration
Chapter 2: Starting a Migration Path
Chapter 3: Creating a Feeds Importer
Chapter 4: Feeds Tampers
Chapter 5: Maintaining a Migration Path
Chapter 6: Packaging Content Types and Feeds Importers
Chapter 7: Migration Using the Migrate Module
Chapter 8: Migrating Content from Earlier Drupal Versions
Chapter 9: Migrating from WordPress
Index
- Chapter 1: Preparing Drupal for Content Migration
- Preparing for migration
- Required core modules
- Required contributed modules
- The Administration Menu module
- Chaos Tool Suite (CTools)
- Views
- Job Scheduler
- Features
- Installing the Feeds module
- Installing the Feeds Tamper module
- Other import module considerations
- Prepping your existing data for migration
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Starting a Migration Path
- Creating a content type
- Planning for the content type fields
- Additional contributed modules needed
- The Location module
- The Location Feeds module
- The Link module
- Adding fields to the content type
- The Location and text fields
- Adding a Location field
- Integer fields
- Term references
- Adding a vocabulary
- Adding the term reference field
- Node references
- Installing the References module
- Adding the node reference field
- Testing our content types
- Testing the node reference field
- Changing the display formatter on the node reference field
- Testing the term reference field
- Content type summary
- Migrating images and files
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Creating a Feeds Importer
- Creating a feeds importer
- Exporting, cloning, and deleting importers
- Importer configuration
- Basic settings
- Fetcher
- Parser
- Processor
- Mapping your importer
- Adding a source and target
- Running an import process
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Feeds Tampers
- Using the Feeds Tamper module
- Adding a tamper plugin
- Running the import with the tamper plugin
- Testing the tamper plugin results
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Maintaining a Migration Path
- Updating imports
- Cloning importers
- The cloning process
- Running the import update
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Packaging Content Types and Feeds Importers
- Features
- Building a content type feature
- Creating and enabling the feature
- The custom feature module
- Overriding your feature
- The Diff module
- Reviewing the override
- Recreating the feature
- Reverting features
- The Feed Importer feature
- Migrating your feature to another Drupal site
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Migration Using the Migrate Module
- Migrate module installation and configuration
- Installing Migrate
- Configuring Migrate
- Viewing a specific migration mapping
- Running the migration
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Migrating Content from Earlier Drupal Versions
- Upgrading Drupal 6 to 7
- Upgrade Status and Upgrade Assist
- Upgrading Drupal core
- Migrating Drupal 6 CCK fields and content to Drupal 7
- Upgrading your contributed modules
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Migrating from WordPress
- Migrating content from WordPress to Drupal
- Installing and configuring WordPress Migrate
- WordPress Migrate configuration
- Exporting a WXR file from WordPress
- Summary
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Mastering migrations using the Feeds module will be the next invaluable tutorial before you get a closer look at the Migrate module’s powerful features. You’ll then upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 and use helper modules to help run the upgrade faster and with less hassle. This book will then take you through the process of migrating CCK-based Drupal 6 fields to Drupal 7 using the Content Migrate module.
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Written in a friendly and engaging style with practical tutorials and step-by-step examples which show you how to easily migrate your Drupal 6 or WordPress site to Drupal 7.
"Migrating to Drupal 7" is for anyone interested in how to move content from an existing website into the Drupal content management system. Both novice and advanced Drupal users will gain practical hands-on knowledge in how to migrate content into Drupal using this book. You will become experts in using the Feeds module to migrate content, and in packaging your code using Features.
