[support] Upgrade to Drupal 5?

Allen Stern allen at centernetworks.com
Mon Oct 15 21:45:34 UTC 2007


There are many things that frustrated me when I started with drupal so I 
just edited them - not realizing it would mess up future upgrades.

Frankly there are still a lot of things that frustrate me - how links 
are placed after a story, size of boxes, comment flow, no ability for 
people to get emails when comments are replied to, etc. Mostly nitpicky 
stuff but it has made me disappointed that my site isn't perfect (or 
even 90%).

-- Allen

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Allen Stern wrote:
>   
>> FYI - I moved my drupal site (www.centernetworks.com) from 4.7 to 5 last 
>> month - I was quite worried because I edited the core along with just 
>> tons of edits. I found the process to be painless and took about 3 hrs 
>> to get everything back the way I wanted it. Some tweaks to the template 
>> were the trickiest if I remember.
>>     
>
> You edited the *core*? Wow.
>
> As a matter of fact, I've tweaked the templates too and that's part of 
> what I was worried about. I use the '$user' variable in a couple of places.
>
>   
>> Just make sure you watch the upgrade video and back up everything!
>>     
>
> Will do. I think I'll first setup a basic Drupal 5 site (I got a new 
> order) to get a feel for the software, then I'll upgrade a less 
> important site that I also administer and then upgrade the "mission 
> critical" site.
>
> Question: I know that you can have multiple sites on the same Drupal 
> installation. But can each site have a different set of modules? I admin 
> more than one site, but they are all totally different.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>   



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