Planned Upgrade to Drupal 6.x

Alan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:01:50 +0000

I'll be updating the underlying content management system of this website in the next week or so. I'll be moving it to Drupal 6.1. I know there will be a few features missing such as Similar Entries.

You'll also come back to a new look - ok, I'm cheating there, I'll be using on of the default themes while I'm waiting for contributed themes to catch up. That suits me, I wanted to change from this theme since it was looking a bit too busy.

I'll leave a maintenance message up, hopefully for only an hour or so.

Edit - I was going to upgrade today, but there's one feature I still want to have confirmed for Drupal 6.1, it's the ability to integrate with Feedburner. Currently I'm using the Feedburner module, but I've been looking at using the Path Redirect module instead. I'll probably hold off upgrade until I can happily integrate with Feedburner.

Improving the speed of a Drupal Site

Alan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:58:30 +0000

I've had to look at a few options for improving performance on this site. I noticed that the introduction of the Feedburner module and moving the RSS feeds across to Feedburner had caused some performance issues.

As I write this, I'm making some changes to the site based on the Essential Steps to Speed up a Drupal Web Site series of articles.

The current change is to implement the Block Cache Module, so you may see a couple of pieces of content duplicated while I switch from dynamic to cached content.

Drupal Modules

Planned Upgrade to Drupal 6.x

Improving the speed of a Drupal Site