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Making Manual Labor a 'lil less Manual

Posted by Mitul Patel on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 09:05 Best Practices, Cool Tools, Web Experience Management WebCenter Sites, Upgrade, WebCenter Sites Upgrade, Automation, Content Migration, WCS 11g, WCS 12c, Content Cleanup

The Big Hurt

Who the heck wants to do manual labor when your finger nails are as well-manicured as ours are, eh? The WebCenter Sites Practice at Function1 is in full swing in the WCS 12c upgrade cycle, with a few clients in the process. As it were, the upgrade itself can be "sort of easy" to nearly impossible depending on the approach taken and feature(s) of your particular implementation. If the upgrade gods are shining their light down on you, you only need to go from 11.1.1.8.0 to 12c. However, there's a good chance that that isn't you, OR that that god is dead OR doesn't exist...

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A Quick Migration of WordPress to Drupal 8

Posted by David Thompson on Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 10:20 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal 8, migrate module, Content Migration, Drupal Migrate, Migrate WordPress to Drupal, WP to Drupal 8, Quick Migrate

I recently discussed a DIRECT workflow for migrating WordPress to Drupal 8.  

That process assumes you want to install WordPress on your local computer. But, remember that WordPress, being a CMS like Drupal, also requires Apache, mySQL and PHP.  Below I'll show you how to get that local WordPress environment setup.  BUT, the thought of setting up a new development environment for Wordpress might make you cringe, especially if you love Drupal the way I do.  If so, skip that part, you really don...

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A Direct Migration of WordPress to Drupal 8

Posted by David Thompson on Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 09:07 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal 8, Drupal Core, Content Migration, Migration, data migration, Big data, Data On-boarding, Data

Migrations from WordPress to Drupal are required when customers are standardizing on Drupal to ease institutional IT staffing requirements, or they just want the many additional customization capabilities built into Drupal.  Here is how to migrate your WordPress data directly into Drupal 8 using the Migrate API.

Here is one workflow to get started quickly …

1.    Setup your D8 site (drupal-8-0-5) locally.  This blog post assumes your WP site is already setup on your local environment....

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Run Forrest Run!

Posted by Hani Atalla on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 15:59 Enterprise 2.0, Development Content Migration, Drupal, Open Source, Publisher, wci, WebCenter Interaction

"Run Forrest Run" – do you remember that scene from the movie Forrest Gump? Well, that seems to be the trend nowadays with government agencies running away from costly entreprise solutions towards more open source software because it is, well, free.  Luckily, Forrest Gump unshackles himself from his polio braces and breaks free; and so so did many government agencies. In ...

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