The Migrate Module - Moving into your New Digs

Experience level: 
Intermediate
Session Track: 

Code and DevOps

This track is focused on developers and the back-end technologies to deal with today’s and future challenges. With the coming release of Drupal 8, as well as emerging Web technologies, preparation is essential. These sessions will help you learn how to deliver effective solutions to meet these needs.

Speaker(s): 
johnvenable

Nearly everyone nowadays has a website, so when you want to switch platforms, how do you get your old content into the new system? In Drupal, the most powerful way to move your it is the Migrate module. More like a framework than a module, Migrate gives you a great way to move content into Drupal. Migrate has a bit of a learning cliff, er, curve, but once you figure out it's approach, it can make moving a lot of content so much easier.

Fresh off of moving ~80,000 pieces of content from several different systems, I will share the tips, tricks, and caveats that will hopefully prevent you from going down the dark alleys I had to. Migrate is also in Drupal 8 so i hope to have some examples to get you started once D8 is released.