As Drupal 7 nears the end of its lifecycle, I started a little project to migrate from D7 to D10.
Through the month of November 2023, I got back up to speed on Drupal, migrated my old site and started to add content that I had notes on from 2019-2023.
As I dug into the tutorials on how to migtate data and reviewed what might actually be of relevance to me or someone else, I dropped a bunch.
To learn Drupal 10, I setup a site on Pantheon so I could easily build up and tear down prototypes till I found the right set of modules for my needs.
I then used the good old copy and paste method. First, I created a view in the old site that could export in CSV the basics of title, tags, date created. Then for each of the 100 or so entries if it made the cut of moving to the Drupal 10 round, would simply get recreated in the new site. It took a few days to do, but I’m retired and it was raining.
The new site has all the new cool media features in D10. So I moved my image library via SFTP and then relinked images and slideshows.
On the backend, I had to take Ubuntu through a few LTS upgrades (from 18 to 24). Mostly that worked but there’s alwasy a bunch of fixes to packages that need to be made. So, I got a few days of fixes in and re-learned apt commands. And so it goes.