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title: >-
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Why you need to start upgrading from Drupal 7 now
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date: 2024-01-03
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permalink: archive/2024/01/03/why-you-need-to-start-upgrading-from-drupal-7-now
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Are you still using Drupal 7? You need to start upgrading to Drupal 10 now instead of waiting until next year.
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tags:
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- drupal
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- drupal-upgrade
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- drupal7
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- php
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- phpc
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---
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{% block content %}
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There's only one year before support for Drupal 7 support ends, but there are still more than 337,000 Drupal 7 websites, according to <https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal>.
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Even though there's a year left, if you've got a Drupal 7 website, you need to start upgrading now!
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Unlike upgrading from Drupal 8 to 9 or 9 to 10, upgrading from Drupal 7 requires major changes to your code for it to be compatible. This will take time to do and test.
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Most websites have some or many custom modules and at least one custom theme that must be upgraded.
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Most use a large number of community-contributed modules.
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Many of these are abandoned or minimally maintained as their maintainers have focused on newer Drupal versions or a module has been marked as unsupported in favour of another.
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If they do have supported versions, it is likely that they haven't had a release for some time. If that's the case, they're essentially unsupported.
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Because of this, there may not be the same modules available with the same functionality for Drupal 10.
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Depending on the available modules, your functionality may need to change, or the old functionality will need to be written within a new custom module.
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## Here's the thing
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Depending on the complexity, it will take a number of months to complete an upgrade.
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Rather than wait until 2025, you want to do the work now whilst Drupal 7 is still supported rather than waiting and being vulnerable to security exploits if running an outdated and unsupported version.
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{% endblock %}
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{% block cta %}
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P.S. Are you stuck on Drupal 7? Purchase a [Drupal upgrade consulting call][call] or [upgrade roadmap][roadmap] and I'll help you on your way to Drupal 10.
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{% endblock %}
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[call]: {{site.url}}/call
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[roadmap]: {{site.url}}/roadmap
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