This presentation will discuss the Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS upgrade process for two Stanford University web applications: Stanford On & Off-Campus Learning opportunities (solo.stanford.edu) and Stanford Seed Funding (seedfunding.stanford.edu). The presentation will cover the decision making process that led the product and developer teams to choose a Backdrop CMS upgrade over rebuild options, and will broadly outline the process for estimating and performing the ~550 hour upgrade.
The case study will showcase the success of a Backdrop CMS upgrade for highly complex Drupal 7 web applications, and will aim to provide a starting point and loose methodology for product and technical teams considering similar projects.
It is our hope that the ongoing success of Stanford University's two Backdrop CMS platforms and a brief outline of the process that led to these upgrades will help other teams tackle similar projects with confidence — and realize similar benefits as opposed to far more expensive and involved platform rebuild options.
- All skill levels
- Beginner
- Experienced
- Website Architects (no code)
- Developers (yes code)
Recent comments
We started thread on Zulip and hope to come up with the plan of how to move forward in next couple of weeks....
I am very interested in this topic and hope that we can get it recorded some day. @argiepiano is such a great...
Does someone have time to test the new Single Sign On module and give us a demo? It was only release a day or two...
I don't think I'll be able to attend this session, but I'm very interested in Backstop visual regression testing...
That's one of the maintainers of the backstop generator module, I'll try to be there!