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Nevin Katz
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8 Tips on Custom Drupal Migrations with Drush

In a gambit to migrate some of our more complex Drupal content from D7 to D9, I finally tried a command-line migration with Drush.

Here is my story thus far along with eight tips.

https://medium.com/codex/8-tips-for-custom-drupal-migrations-with-drush-4038ed5a18ff

The main impetus for trying this was an emerging need to migrate a type of content bundle known as the Paragraph. This does not migrate naturally using the Drupal UI, so a custom approach is necessary.

After the documentation scavenger hunt, I tried to write the article I wish had been available at the outset of my journey.

If you are a web developer who wants to learn more about Drupal migrations and has not yet set up a custom migration workflow, this is a good primer.

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