Migrate an existing Drupal 6 or 7 website to Backdrop and discover why you should consider
using Backdrop when building a new website. You'll learn what Backdrop is how to install and
configure Backdrop and create and manage content. Migrating from Drupal to Backdrop focuses on
the user who is responsible for building maintaining and managing an organization's website
and who is interested in Backdrop's ability to meet their site's requirements. There is a major
shift in the open source CMS market and Backdrop is emerging as a significant force. The Drupal
team's decision to rebuild Drupal 8 on Symfony has many developers and organizations in a
quandary - do you learn a whole new framework and undertake the effort of migrating to Drupal 8
stay on Drupal 7 which will at some point be officially unsupported or adopt Backdrop as their
go-forward strategic platform? There is also a large mid-market that may not have the ability
to scale up with the skills required to support Drupal 8 (Symfony) making Backdrop a viable
and attractive alternative. By reading this book you will: Understand why you should use
Backdrop and the power of the platform Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Backdrop
Gain the knowledge necessary to build deploy and manage web sites of moderate complexity on
Backdrop Understand the process for migrating a Drupal 6 or 7 site to Backdrop What You Will
Learn: What Backdrop is and why you should use it How to install a basic Backdrop web site from
scratch How to create content in your new Backdrop web site How to install and configure
modules How to migrate a Drupal 6 site to Backdrop How to migrate a Drupal 7 site to Backdrop
Who This Book Is For:< This book is for technical users who need to use Backdrop to create
websites using the platform or to manage existing content as well as developers who are new to
the Backdrop platform. The book is also targeted at organizations that currently use Drupal 6
or 7 and who wish to remain on the base architecture of those platforms as they move forward on
Backdrop.
