Migration Services

Why upgrade?

Bringing your site up to speed with the latest version of Plone is a good thing as newer releases usually come with many additional built-in features. It also ensures that your site will be easily updated when you need new functionalities added.

For instance, the latest Plone 3.x version includes full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents, a powerful portlets engine, versioning, history and reverting content among others.

The migration process

Six Feet Up usually starts by reviewing existing code against the specifications of the latest version of Plone in order to identify the elements that will need to be migrated, including:

• CSS rules
• Custom content types
• Third-party products
• Custom Membership Setup
• Existing Deployment Strategies
• Custom Folder Usage

Following this research, Six Feet Up puts together a detailed estimate related to the proposed migration effort that includes a review of potential conflicts and/or recommended code updates.

Upgrading to a newer version of Plone typically includes:

• Bringing all current templates up to date with the latest Plone best practices
• Merging catalogs
• Setting up buildout for development/deployment
• Moving Custom Folder items into products
• Safely migrating the data to the newer version
• And more...