Ready to move sites from a slow, old host to Pantheon? Does your old site need some TLC? Today I’m happy to announce a new migration experience to help move your Drupal and WordPress sites to Pantheon. Check it out yourself by selecting the “Migrate existing site” button in your User or Pantheon for Agencies dashboard.
Editor's Note: This post was written collaboratively by Dharizza Espinach Barahona of Montreal-based Drupal experts at Evolving Web, along with Eric Michalsen of Pantheon. When it was published, Drupal 9 was the newest version of Drupal. Drupal 10 and 11 have since been released but the ideas in this post still hold true.
At DrupalCon New Orleans this month, my co-worker Andrew Taylor and I presented Lessons from WordPress Core.
To keep something safe, you protect it under lock and key, right? Same is true in Drupal and WordPress. Except in these CMSs, that key is unfortunately often hidden under the “Welcome” mat called your database. Not always a very secure place for such important items. So, the question is, what can you do to keep the key safe?
Let’s back up a few steps. Why are there keys and where are they in the first place?
Nowadays, many web interfaces use JavaScript to enhance user interactions, for example, providing autocomplete widgets in search forms. Let’s see how to use Behat to test this JavaScript functionality. Behat is a PHP framework for automated testing. With the help of libraries like Mink and MinkExtension, it can be used for testing web sites and applications.
The example will visit Wikipedia’s homepage and interact with the autocomplete feature of the search bar.
DrupalCon LA was a complete blast. In addition to exciting announcements, amazing sessions and tons of fun side events, there were also a lot of super productive sprints that really pushed Drupal development forward. In the Drush sprints, the remaining issues tagged for Drush 7 were all reviewed, and either resolved or deferred, cumulating in the release of Drush 7.0 Stable today.
If you’ve spent much time upgrading older websites to PHP 7, it’s likely you have encountered the annoying situation where PHP notices are printed directly into the HTML output, causing them to display in an ugly, unformatted jumble at the top of the page. The effect looks something like this:
Recently I wrote about how to prepare your site and import it into Pantheon’s new WordPress platform. This process works well for smaller sites. However, if you have a large WordPress installation, the process may not work. The Pantheon Importer has a limit on the size of files it can process. If you are uploading the file to Pantheon, the limit is 100MB. If you are giving the Pantheon Importer a URL, the file cannot be larger than 500MB.
As web developers, when we get hired to make a website, we might forget the driving assumption behind that expense: companies believe a better website will help them make more money. Why else would they be willing to invest in development, design and ongoing maintenance other than a belief in the potential of a return on their investment?
WordPress multisite is a great tool to streamline website management while providing site owners with some versatility. At its best, multisite is the perfect solution for managing multiple websites at once.
But, a multisite certainly isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. There are some caveats. Before we celebrate or dismiss it, let’s take a look at multisite and see what it’s all about.