Upgrading your site to Drupal 9? Check out these DrupalCon Global sessions!
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DrupalCon Global 2020 is in a couple weeks and there are a lot of amazing sessions. Hope you can make it! While preparing my own DrupalCon Global session, I reviewed the other sessions and made a list of ones you might want to watch to help you prepare for upgrading from Drupal 6 or 7 or 8 to Drupal 9.
In some cases, it was very hard to choose just one on a particular topic. For example, there are 3 great layout builder talks! So, while these are some of my top picks, don't forget to check out all the DrupalCon Global sessions and add your favorites to your schedule.
If you are upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 and don't need to make any website improvements, then you can focus on the Drupal 9 sessions. If you will be doing a redesign and/or upgrading from Drupal 6 or 7 to Drupal 9, check sessions for dreaming up your new site, planning your new site architecture, and implementing your new site.
Drupal 9 sessions
Everything you want to know about Drupal 9: the upgrade process from Drupal 6, 7, and 8, making upgrades faster with a new Acquia migration tool, the nitty gritty details on what makes Drupal 9 special, and new features coming in Drupal 9.1.
- Deep dive: state of Drupal 9
by Amber Himes Matz and Gábor Hojtsy - Drupal 9: New Initiatives for Drupal
by jerdavis - Bridging the migration gap from Drupal 7 to 9
by webchick - Getting ready for Drupal 9: Upgrading your module
by penyaskito - Preparing custom & contributed code for D9
by mikelutz - Preparing you & your site for Drupal 9
by Kristen Pol - The Drupal Initiatives mega-session
by Gábor Hojtsy
Dreaming up your new site
Discovery, design, and project management are critical for your web projects. These sessions cover how to manage your team, user stories and user experience work, and other important aspects of designing a great website.
- The "P" word: managing the people in your digital project
by tfish77 and rfanning - Getting discovery right: The foundation of project success
by Zoocha Will - What is user journey mapping and why should I care?
by chadhester - From squiggles to straight lines: Sketching discovery & UX work
by marsepstein - One usability step at a time: Improve your site with a UX audit
by alittledesign and BeckyCierpich - Accessible patterns from the ground up
by cehfisher
Planning your new site architecture
Drupal is a great framework for building the website you want by customizing to your needs. These sessions cover foundational features of the Drupal system: media, layout builder, components, admin tools, SEO, and migrations.
- Media in Drupal 8: everything you need to know
by phenaproxima - Page building showdown: Paragraphs vs. Layout builder
by drupalninja99 - An overview of Drupal 8 front-end component integration methods
by brianperry - Outstanding admin UX
by switzern and a3hill - SEO and Drupal: Designing and developing a search-friendly site
by dkadamus - Avoid a redesign train wreck: Get your content from point A to B
by lwinter
Implementing your new site
If you are new to Drupal 8 and 9, these sessions will help you understand how to work with composer, configuration management, and Twig as well as create custom modules and migrations.
- Moving to Composer: Converting an existing site
by greg.1.anderson and Mile23 - Understanding Configuration Management and How to Override
by drfuzetto - Altering, extending, and enhancing Drupal
by eojthebrave - Layout Builder components can break your site. Here's how.
by aangel - Next level Twig
by megan_m - A strategic approach to custom migrations
by adamzimmermann, asak, and zopa
Hope to see you at DrupalCon Global!
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