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Sanitary migrations with XMLRPC

J-P Stacey 18 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Migrating full Drupal versions can be hard and unearth horrors. If you just want content, users etc, XMLRPC could be for you.

This is a case study of the work involved migrating a Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6.

If your D5 site only has only core modules enabled, migration is pretty straightforward. Start adding contributed modules to the mix and - as long as you don't use unknown or unsupported code - you can still migrate with a minimum amount of pain. But what about when:

  • The migration will seriously break the theme
  • The client decides that migration is a good time to completely re-theme
  • ... and add new functionality