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This article is prepared with the experience of migration on zyxware.com and I have tried my best to generalize it to migrate any Drupal 6 website to Drupal 7. The issues mentioned in these articles, although common in sites that have been migrated, need not be present in yours. Please learn from these articles and keep these articles as a safe practice, not as a guide to migration. Migration is different for every website!

This step may seem irrelevant, but is absolutely necessary as the minor versions may have database changes which maybe reflected in major upgrade. (Minor upgrade example : 6.11 to 6.19 and major upgrade example : 6.19 to 7.34). If you are using git, make sure to checkout a new branch before updating code so that the code is backed up and take a dump of the local database you are working on.

This is probably the part that will crash your site, so proceed with extreme caution! Migration actually starts here. Unlike the previous steps you will not be able to use drush to overwrite your core to Drupal 7. This has to be done manually. You have to download the latest stable version of Drupal 7 and paste into the root folder of your website. Make sure to not overwrite .htaccess and robots.txt. When you overwrite, merge into the folders and replace the files. That being said, there are some prerequisites to this step.

"A youth from Kerala establish Zyxware Technologies, an IT Company that offers an array of services"

Drupal 7 comes with two primary options for e-commerce websites: Commerce. Commerce is new for Drupal 7 and redefines the way Drupal handles the e-commerce. Selecting correct e-commerce module suite for your webshop is an essential starting point. Commerce is an exciting entry to the Drupal shopping cart category written by some of the same developers who previously managed Ubercart.

A feature is a set of Drupal entities, taken together to satisfy a certain use-case. A Drupal Module 'features' is used to create custom features. Let us check how to create a custom feature.

Being a fresher to Drupal, your first step is to focus on the Coding Standards In Drupal 7. Drupal community is very serious about coding standards. Entire source code should follow the current standards, regardless of the (core) version.

We were working on a Drupal website which was handed to us by one of our Drupal clients. We were required to add a new content type to the Drupal site and create the associated views with it. While working on adding a feature we found that the taxonomy terms (tags) were not appearing on the node page of any content type. If you find that the tags have been missing then read on to know the most likely source of the issue.