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Contributed modules for migration, deployment, backup, and import

  • Backup and Migrate - with AWS S3
  • Database Administrator: Manage, backup, and load your database
  • Deploy: Content staging
  • Drupal-to-Drupal data migration
  • Limiting backup storage space consumed
  • Migrate
  • Patterns module
  • Reference to EntityReference Field Migration
  • WordPress Migrate

Patterns module

Important! Patterns 6.x and Patterns 7.x have diverged and so have their documentations. Although the design concept is the same, some backwards-incompatible changes have been introduced in 7.x. Please refer to appropriate documentation pages.

Documentation for Patterns 6.x

This is a first attempt to document the Patterns module in its entirety. As such, it will be a work-in-progress until signed off by the

  • Creating or writing Patterns
  • FAQ - Patterns Frequently Asked Questions

Documentation for Patterns 7.x

This page contains the documentation for site administrators, developers and contributors using Patterns version 7.x.

  • Anatomy of a pattern file
  • Automatic extraction of Patterns files
  • Differences between v. 6.x and 7.x
  • Drush Commands
  • How patterns files are stored and loaded
  • Intuition of Patterns
  • Patterns 7.x Installation
  • Patterns 7.x for contributors: A tour of the code
  • Patterns 7.x for developers
  • Patterns 7.x-2.x vs Patterns 7.x-1.x
  • Patterns 7.x: A tour of the components
  • Patterns includes
  • Patterns v. 7.x Changelog
  • Public Patterns

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