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Drupal 11 Upgrade Gotchas - Slick Carousel

Even as a seasoned Drupal developer, when upgrading a Drupal 10.x site to Drupal 11.x you can still encounter a number of weird issues with some older legacy code on the site, which had previously (unbeknownst to you) relied on functionality that has now changed in some way,…Read article →

Migrating cropped images

One of our big Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 migration projects included bringing across image cropping functionality and data on a longstanding client's website. This site had used the Imagefield Crop module, but that was only for Drupal 7. We set up Image Widget Crop for the new site,…Read article →

Allow editors to use HTML attributes by default

Drupal provides an excellent sanitisation system to filter the HTML content that editors might create. Think of it like a series of traffic cops that filter different vehicles into different lanes. Some content is allowed through to its destination, some has to be transformed…Read article →

Migrating Drupal 7 Files into Drupal 8 / 9 Media entities

This article assumes a basic knowledge of the building of custom modules, the Drupal 8 / 9 Migration system, and the processes behind creating customised migrations from a previous version of Drupal.Read article →

Upgrading your website to Drupal 8 or 9

Update: Since writing this article the EOL of Drupal 7 has been extended from November 2021 until November 2022.Read article →

Drupal 7, 8 and 9 - When to Migrate

Anyone familiar with the Drupal core development lifecycle will know that presently the Drupal community supports two major versions at any one time: the current major release and its immediate predecessor. This means that at ComputerMinds we are currently helping our clients…Read article →

Rebranding ComputerMinds - Part 6: Migration

I volunteered to carry out the migration for the new ComputerMinds site as migration was one of the very few areas of Drupal that I hadn’t delved into thus far. With Drupal 8 becoming more and more popular, now was a great opportunity to learn the migration ropes. Luckily,…Read article →