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Drupal 10 is scheduled to be released next month, December 14, 2022

November 25, 2022 / By Ferdinand /

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Drupal 10 will be released this December 2022

Drupal 10 is coming out next month December 14.

Drupal 9's biggest dependency is Symfony 4. Symfony 4 will be end-of-life in November 21, 2023 so Drupal has no choice but to do something about it. And that's to make Drupal 10.

Loads of new kick-ass features are coming with Drupal 10.

Asset Packagist makes it easy to add external JavaScript libraries to Drupal projects

August 23, 2022 / By Ferdinand /

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If you install a Drupal module that requires an external JavaScript library, you are more or less left on your own how to get the library into your project. If you manage your site with Composer, manually downloading and extracting packages is one of the things you wanted to avoid. Learn how Asset Packagist helps you to avoid it.

We upgraded one of our Drupal 7 sites to Drupal 9

May 18, 2022 / By Ferdinand /

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One of Nigeria's top film training institutes and media services companies, Magnus Film Academy whom we built and managed their Drupal 7 website wanted to upgrade their website and we stepped in and took care of it. We just finished the work of upgrading the site to Drupal 9.

Now, it's time for easy upgrades in Drupal

February 18, 2022 / By Ferdinand /

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Drupal 8 reached its end-of-life on November 2, 2021. We started upgrading our Drupal 8 sites in October 2021 and by the end of November all our Drupal 8 sites were upgraded to Drupal 9. It did not feel like we were moving in between major versions, we didn't have to rebuild the sites or any of such. We experienced the new Drupal easy upgrades and we love it!

We upgraded to Composer 2 for our Drupal sites and it feels so much better

May 04, 2021 / By Ferdinand /

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We updated all our D8 and D9 sites to use Composer 2. Composer 2.0 was released on 24 October, 2020. It is so much faster and uses far less memory. It's a big relief to remove Composer wait time from our development process not to talk of making sure there is enough high memory for Composer on our machines.

We completed our first Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 upgrade

January 23, 2021 / By Ferdinand /

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We just upgraded one of our Drupal 7 websites to Drupal 8 in our first major version migration experience. It was a friendly and seamless experience. We did not need any extra tool other than the migration tools in Drupal core. We migrated the content with the tools, created a new Drupal 8 theme, recreated the views (views are not migrated) and that was it!

How to use 'drush' instead of 'vendor/bin/drush' to call Drush - cool Drupal tip

October 31, 2020 / By Ferdinand /

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With Drupal adopting the use of Composer to manage code as from Drupal 8 upwards, this has also affected the installation of Drush. Now all you need is to run a single Composer command to install it. Composer installs Drush inside the 'vendor' directory and makes it available at vendor/bin/drush, but you want to use the traditional drush command and not vendor/bin/drush. What are ways you can achieve this? Check in and get the info.

How to change managing Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 sites from manual to Composer-based

July 28, 2020 / By Ferdinand /

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Converting from manual management of Drupal to Composer-based

As from version 8, Drupal recommends using Composer to manage dependencies. This has thrown off users who are not comfortable working in the command line. But using Composer to manage packages in Drupal is not explicitly required, it is only a recommendation. You can still manage Drupal version 8 and upwards just the way you managed version 7 being downloading and installing from tarball or installing with Softaculous - these methods are still valid with Drupal. But what if you started manually and now you want to switch over to Composer? Hop on the link and get the info on this.

Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020 as scheduled

June 26, 2020 / By Ferdinand /

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Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020 as scheduled. This is the first major version release of Drupal that 'the big deal about it, is that it is not a big deal' because of the easy version 8 to 9 upgrade. 8 to 9 is the easiest Drupal upgrade in a decade and there is a commitment to easy upgrades going forward so Drupal will not replatform again. Get in and get the info.

Take your school, classes, training programmes, lectures and courses online; the Opigno way

May 18, 2020 / By Ferdinand /

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Online learning system lms for schools to take online classes, training, courses and lectures in Nigeria

If you need to take your training and learning activities online, I recommend you try Opigno. The solution is flexible so it will fit if you are a school, a company, a non profit, a vocational school, a university or higher institution, or an individual. And it does not matter the size of your students and learners. Opigno is a robust open source learning management system (LMS) based on Drupal. Hop in and get the info.

How about headless Drupal, I mean decoupled Drupal?

February 29, 2020 / By Ferdinand /

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Since 1989 when Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the Web has spun off so immense and never-seen-before level of collaboration, invention and creativity. The Web has progressed from the early days of static websites (Web 1.0) to the time of interactive dynamic content (Web 2.0) which saw the emergence of CMSes. Now at Web 3.0, we are beginning to hear about headless CMS. What are these and how is Drupal keeping up with the new developments? Hop in and get the info.

Drupal 9 is coming this June

January 24, 2020 / By Ferdinand /

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Drupal 9 is scheduled to be released June 3, 2020, less than 5 months from now! What will the upgrade experience be like? How does this major version change differ from the past ones? How about Drupal 7 and 8? Hop in and get the info.