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Drupal is used by 2.4% of all websites worldwide. ~W3Techs

Consider these pointers when you are migrating your finance website to Drupal 9 and experience a seamless process. A Drupal development firm might help you better in this case as they are well educated on the dos and don’ts of Drupal 9 migration. Auxesis Infotech is one of the best Drupal development firms you can consider in this respect.

Some renowned websites such as BAC Credomatic, Charles Schwab, Voya Financial, Webster Bank, etc. use Drupal. And one of the primary reasons for using it is the top-of-the-shelf security it provides. With the recent upgrade to Drupal 9, the security aspect is improved even further so finance-related websites can easily make the migrating decision. 

Now, you may consider migrating your finance business website from any other platform to Drupal or just upgrading to the latest Drupal version. In any case, these Drupal 9 migration tips will be handy. 

Drupal 9 Migration Tips To Follow 

If you are considering migrating to Drupal 9, first of all, you have to know that it is backward compatible. And it has ended support for any deprecated codes present in Drupal 7 and 8. So, if you are considering migration, you might as well get rid of the deprecated codes for a safer and more secure financial website. 

Now, seek answers to these questions before Drupal development and migration to ensure your finance website isn’t compromised or exposed to threats in any step. 

1. When to migrate? 

If you are using an earlier version of Drupal for your finance business like Drupal 7 or 8, it is about time that you start planning for migration. Drupal is likely to end support for earlier versions by the end of November 2021. While the date might extend, it is better to migrate your finance website to Drupal 9 before the support ends and your site is exposed to malicious cyber attacks. 

In case your finance business website is on another platform than Drupal, look for these signs and decide if it is time for migration. 

When you want your website to be backward compatible. 

If the existing website development platform isn’t very much secure. 

Check if your website is up to date or compatible with required third-party tools. 

2. What to expect? 

If you are going with Drupal development for your website, this is what you can expect. 

It is backward compatible and can be used efficiently with Drupal 8 components. 

Drupal 9 has removed support for deprecated codes.

You can expect top-notch security. 

3. What to consider for migration? 

The things you need to consider while planning migration for your finance business website are - 

Planned release window 

Those planning to migrate to Drupal should know that it has announced releasing new updates every 6 months. Here, they will introduce a few new features without introducing major changes so it can be backward compatible. And the finance websites or other websites don’t have to worry about updating again for Drupal development. 

Deprecated libraries 

Similar to deprecated codes, you should be careful enough to get rid of the deprecated libraries for a smooth migration process. 

Compatible hosting environment 

It’s been a fairly productive but rough week at Chzmongr.  

The ups: my presentation and elevator pitch are basically complete.  Plus my marketing materials and poster are ready to roll for next weekend.  Well, the poster has to be printed but it’s basically ready to ship out.  

The downs: the cheese rating form on the website started throwing an error related to the javascript operating the autocomplete functionality and I don’t know how to fix it.  It’s very inconsistent (happens at times and not at others, not related to the cheese being rated, etc.) and is difficult to troubleshoot.  I’ve attempted to continue development on the site ‘around’ the issue but it’s hard to test and improve the social feed when you can’t create new ratings, so kind of a catch 22.  

Moving forward: tonight I’m just focusing on finishing the presentation and giving it a couple run throughs.  Tomorrow, I plan to go back to the web dev and fight the good fight.  If the cheese rating form isn’t working, I think I can disable it to complete the configuration of the social feed page and then turn it back on.  Then I still need to upload the blog entries and sort out the landing page.  :o 

Setting up the AdvAgg module can be daunting as there are many settings.

Making note here of online resources to configure AdvAgg in Drupal.

Use AdvAgg Information tab to debug or optimize CSS and JS aggregates in Drupal 7

OsTraining on AdvAgg

Lullabot Article on AdvAgg

Tonight I had cheese for dinner, after a productive day of working on the Chzmongr site.  I’m in a pretty decent place and should have the site up and going for user testing early tomorrow . . . that user testing is still to be scheduled, but will likely take place next weekend following the turkey holiday. Outstanding items on the site build are: -complete css for the social area and tie to main menu, -upload the blog entries and tie to main menu, -complete update of the cheese data, -adding a footer (how have I forgotten this for so long?), and setting the ‘landing page’ as the main home page after users are logged in.  

This leaves me the weekend to finalize my presentation and elevator pitch for capstone weekend.  I’m pretty excited about it actually.  My presentation is coming along and really just tells the story of why I undertook Chzmongr for my final project and what I’ve learned along the way.  I hope the rest of the students and everyone will find it amusing/compelling and that it will also be informative about the UX process I undertook this year.

Tonight I went to see my real cheesemonger, who never disappoints.  He was wearing an “Italian National Cheese Team” kit and had all my favorite cheeses!   He also gave me some cheese themed coloring books in case any little friends stop by on capstone weekend - seriously!!  Could he be any better?!  So amazing!    (Pictured above, Vault 5 from Jasper Hill, Black Label Cambozola, and Cowgirl Creamery’s Mt. Tam) 

So, since deciding to use Drupal 7, I did a lot of rebuilding - and things were going great!  Then, Saturday night, I sort of blew up the whole site and spent a few hours Sunday morning getting it back to where it was . . . so now, I’ve got a sample form that is not connected to my database yet - not good.  I’ve got users that can create ‘cheese friendships’ with each other - so that’s great but I can’t set up the social feed until I have a way for those users to create some activity - i.e. rate some cheeses.  I have a cheese database that users can search - also great.  I also worked out how to create the tasks so users can earn badges and have finished the design of all but a handful of the badges themselves.  

Our final rubrics are due this week, so my focus will be on getting that completed and wrapping up the badge designs and loading them all in.  This is totally reasonable, but is causing me to flip out a little bit because I’m not on target with my deliverables.