Drupal 7

You may already know that we've been providing Drupal 6 Long-Term Support (D6LTS) for over two years.

What we have been hearing over and over lately - especially at Drupalcon - is "what about Drupal 7?"

Typically, only two major versions of Drupal are supported at once: the latest version, and the previous one. Right now, that means Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.

We don't know when the community's support for Drupal 7 will end or if the community itself will do some kind of LTS. But we do know that community support will come to end at some point. While the details will depend on what the community does, we just wanted to let everyone know...

We intend to provide Long-Term Support for Drupal 7, in order to keep your site going long after the end of official support!

Read more to learn more about our plans for D7LTS...

Last Wednesday, February 21 was a security update that impacted Drupal 8, Drupal 7, and even Drupal 6 "LTS". Hundreds of thousands of website operators need to immediately update their websites! A huge percentage of them are not "web developers". Many don't even know they need the update!

Drupal isn't known for its ease of use for site owners. It's come a long way, but it remains difficult for most. That's expected and sometimes even exciting for Drupal developers.

What about the (non-developer) site owner? We don't believe your site should be left vulnerable. We believe you should be able to "just chill" rather than stress about your Drupal site security!

Read on for a peek behind the curtain to see what the Wizards do so you don't have to.

Lots of non-profit organizations use Drupal - they're actually our biggest group of customers! In working with so many non-profit organizations, we've come across some common problems non-profits have with their Drupal sites. We're going to do a series of articles with tips for non-profits -- this is this first one! (click here to subscribe and get them all via e-mail)

One of the most common problems is how to promote and acknopwledge sponsors, donors, in-kind volunteers on their website. Where to fit all the logos/names?

In this blog post, I'm going to tackle one of the most popular solutions: putting them in a sildeshow.

(There's other techniques which we'll look at in future articles!)

Read more to learn how to add a sponsor slideshow to your site!

Drupal 7? What About Drupal 6 & 8?

Drupal 8 is the future of Drupal. No doubt. It's awesome.

Drupal 6 is still a reality for a large number of critical websites.

At myDropWizard, we spent a lot of time focusing on Drupal 6 over the past almost 2 years. We love the service we are able to provide to our Drupal 6 clients - I think most of them love our service too!

We've also spent a lot of time thinking about the future of Drupal 8 - just like you probably have.

You run a Drupal Agency - or you're an independent Drupal Developer. Your customers need support. You try to do support. You try to get back to project work. You try to do support. You try to get back to project work. You get the idea. Ad nauseum. That's your life.

What if there were a better way? What if you could spend time doing more profitable things - and spend your spare time like the attached image: on the beach?

We've been there, and we've come up with a handful of key reasons why we feel you should consider outsourcing your Drupal Support and Maintenenance.

Read more to find out!

A few weeks ago, we had A Survey! Is Drupal Hard?

First of all, thank you for taking the time to answer (even though we had a short-lived technical snafu!). At myDropWizard, we believe in transparency and openness, so I'm going to share the unfiltered data with you - as well as what my thoughts are in interpreting this non-scientific study.

No, that's not a typo. No, I'm not typing from the future. This is just a little bit of a look forward.

Since myDropWizard announced that we will be extending our Drupal 6 Long-Term Support into 2018, we fully anticipate having this discussion a year from now. Here’s a top ten list of your options and why it is fine to wait until 2017 to make your upgrade decisions!

I attended Drupal Camp WI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this weekend.

There was a fantastic presentation called "Why Is Drupal So Hard?" by Joe Shindelar at Drupalize.me

It got me thinking about myDropWizard, our clients, and what path people are taking at this current crossroad of Drupal 6 -> Drupal 7 -> Drupal 8 versus going a different path. Sometimes when you are too close to a question, you shouldn't be the one answering it. So, I'd like to ask "you," the world!

I'll share the results in a future blog post, and I'll share my thinking about what the results mean.

If you have any criticisms of the survey, please share those with me! I think this is just the first of a few surveys that we can do.

I hope this is fun, and I know it's not "scientific". However, I am hoping that it continues the discussion within the Drupal Community in regards to what we should do?

Without further ado: Here is the survey!