Drupal 7 End-of-Life. Choose your own path.

Options

Upgrading Drupal 7 to Drupal 9/10
Upgrading Drupal 7 to Drupal 9/10

Move to Drupal 10 quickly, cheaply, and efficiently

There are several options if your site is Drupal 7. However, if you want to uplift the look and feel of your website, build new features and/or you publish new content regularly then the best option is a new Drupal 10 site. 

More about moving to Drupal 10

Drupal 7 — Salsa's 3 unconventional alternatives

Drupal 7’s End-of-Life doesn't mean end of choice.

Salsa's 'Endless Drupal' suite of solutions allows you to choose how and even if you end Drupal 7.

Leave it, keep it, or move it. It's your choice.

End-of-Life – we know it hurts

  • Drupal 7 End-of-Life (EOL) is coming soon — November 2023

  • Your website and system will be vulnerable and insecure past EOL

  • You’ve made significant investment in your current Drupal technology

  • Building a new site may mean you lose current business systems and process knowledge

  • Changing could involve significant costs and time for the business

Traditional upgrade options...

Take time

Creating designs & UI pattern libraries, setting up a new Drupal site, building a new Drupal frontend theme, building new Drupal features & user testing.

Are costly

Creating user-tested designs, building a new design system or using an existing one, building and testing a new site that meets accessibility standards (WCAG).

Come with risks

New site design and build can take longer than planned (time blowout) and can cost more than planned (budget blowout).

Salsa gives you 3 unique D7 EOL pathways

  • Salsa developed our Endless Drupal solutions suite to simplify Drupal 7 End-of-Life projects

  • Built on extensive experience and deep Drupal expertise including building robust whole-of-government Drupal systems

  • The Endless Drupal suite of solutions can be used alone or together to suit an organisation’s needs

  • We’ve created combinations of these solutions to provide 3 unique options for various D7 EOL circumstances

Which EOL pathway is right for you?

Leave it

Leave your Drupal site as-is by publishing a static copy of your site. This option is a good fit if you're happy with your site, don't need to build new features, and don't make any content updates.

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Keep it

Keep your Drupal 7 site for longer by locking down your editorial domain. This option is a good fit if you're happy with your site, don't want to add new features, but do need to publish new content.

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Move it

Move to Drupal 9 or 10 quickly, cheaply and efficiently. This option is a good fit if you want to change your site design, need to build new features, and/or publish new content regularly.

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1. Drupal 7 Static Archive

Why you would leave it as-is and move off Drupal 7?

Decommission D7 instantly

Greatly reduce hosting cost

Significantly improve security

More about our Static Archive solution

2. Drupal 7 Extended Life

Why you would keep it going on Drupal 7?

Keep running Drupal 7 CMS indefinitely

Greatly reduce hosting cost

Maintain a high level of site security and performance

More about our Extended Life solution

3. Drupal 7 Upgrade to D10

CivicTheme is D10 ready, are you?

Why you would move it to Drupal 10?

End-to-end migration and upgrade to D10

Includes flexible design system for simple site management

Includes a high quality user-tested visual design theme

More about our Drupal 10 upgrade solution

Talk to Salsa about the D7 EOL pathways

Contact Salsa Digital about your options for Drupal 7’s End-of-Life.

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