As of January 5, 2025, Drupal 7 will no longer be supported. If you’re not ready to move away from Drupal 7, there’s no reason to panic! Attico International offers Drupal 7 extended support services to keep your site secure, compatible, and compliant for as long as you need.
With the official end of life for Drupal 7 coming soon, many businesses are considering migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10. However, migration is not always possible, for some of the reasons explained below.
At Attico, we respect your choice to stay on Drupal 7 for any reason and offer our assistance by providing never-ending support for your website.
After the end-of-life date, the Drupal Security Team will no longer provide support for Drupal 7 core, contributed modules, and themes, which entails security risks and other complications. We offer our clients several ways to solve this problem:
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Module swappingReplacing the unsupported module with a supported one. Our team will help you find and install the module with similar functionality, make necessary adjustments if needed, and provide guidance on its usage.
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Module adoptionAdopting the Drupal 7 module officially. We will apply to maintain an abandoned module before it’s flagged as unsupported due to unresolved issues, thus supporting the community and helping you to preserve the required functionality.
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Custom module developmentDeveloping Drupal modules tailored to your specific needs. We will create the necessary functionality from scratch and continually support it for those who want to stay on Drupal 7.
The Drupal 7 end of life means the termination of releasing security patches that are fixing vulnerabilities in the system. We provide extended security support to keep your site protected against various threats, including malware, SQL injection, and DDoS attacks.
Following community updates
Drupal plans to make non-critical Drupal 7 issues public so that the open-source community could help resolve them. Our team will continuously monitor the latest community updates and install them upon release to ensure the utmost security of your website.
Monitoring security advisory
If a security issue affects both Drupal 7 and a newer version, the Drupal 7 issue may be made public without a corresponding fix. We will monitor the public queue of such issues and resolve them to help you stay protected.
Applying fixes proactively
We will proactively contribute to the community if our experts discover any issues and address security problems on your website with our own efforts.
While the Drupal 7 site might encounter some performance limitations due to not having the latest PHP version installed and lacking the advanced caching features of Drupal 10, it still has opportunities for performance optimization.
Attico will help your site load faster by optimizing custom modules, caching settings, and other configurations to avoid being overtaken by competitors.
To maintain the SEO friendliness of your Drupal 7 site, Attico’s team offers a range of services, including express and in-depth SEO audits, ongoing SEO services, and one-time fixes.
These services ensure that your website stays optimized for search engines, helping to improve its visibility and ranking.
With our Drupal 7 content management services, you can focus on your core business while we take care of the complexities of managing your website content, ensuring it remains dynamic, optimized, and aligned with your business goals.
To make sure that the existing community of Drupal 7 site owners is not left behind, the Drupal Soft Landing Initiative is planned to be launched. This initiative aims to create resources and tools to assist business owners willing to stay on Drupal 7 to prepare for what comes next.
Staying abreast of all developments within this initiative, we’ll help you promptly obtain and implement:
Alternatively, we provide customers with the option to migrate to Backdrop CMS, a fork of Drupal that retains architecture similar to Drupal 7 while introducing significant new features like configuration manager.
Backdrop has a built-in upgrade path from Drupal 7, allowing us to migrate your site to it seamlessly and cost-effectively.
If you choose to migrate to Drupal 10, it’s essential to maintain your Drupal 7 site both before and during migration to ensure a smooth transition. Attico will take care of this, no matter who your migration contractor is.
Having a wealth of experience in Drupal 7 to 10 migration, we’ll seamlessly transfer your website to Drupal 10 while providing Drupal 7 support in the meantime to avoid interruptions in your website’s operation.
We effectively collaborate with external teams and can ensure the proper functioning of Drupal 7 while it’s being migrated. We’ll also help ensure that users, functionality, content, and SEO are transferred correctly.
Migration consultation
Ready to migrate but don’t know where to start? Our team will provide guidance and assistance in creating a plan for:
Yes, your current website will remain online. However, you will no longer be able to enjoy necessary security updates and patches.