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Is Drupal 8 CMS Ready for Prime Time?

Drupal 8, the latest version of the popular open source content management system (CMS) was released in late 2015 with a number of great new capabilities and features as part of its core. But should you build using D8 now, or should you use Drupal 7? Well, that depends. If your current website/application or planned new website is relatively simple, and does not depend on a lot of contributed modules, then you might consider using D8. But for more complex sites that are new, or existing sites that depend on contributed modules, we recommend that you stick with Drupal 7 for now because as with [...]

Export Drupal CMS Data Using Views Data Export Module

The Drupal CMS is a powerful platform for building websites and often the need arises to import data into your CMS in bulk such as product data, or company listings, etc. For this, the Drupal Feeds module is a great tool. But what if you need to get your data OUT of Drupal? Luckily there's the Views Data Export module which provides an easy way to export existing data out of Drupal and into some common file formats. Use Case Our client had imported some data into a distributor database that we had built as part of their website. The initial data was imported using [...]