Migrating UNESCO Silk Roads Programme’s website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 | Drupal.org

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Sector(s)

Non-profit

Team Members

janez zibelnik, kbrodej, mitjakr, miha.wagner, klemenhorjak, gregor.hrusevar

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Organizations Involved

Agiledrop - Your Trusted Drupal Teammates

UNESCO has recently re-launched the Silk Road online platform, to compile and disseminate this valuable knowledge for the benefit of academic, cultural and artistic professionals as well as the general public. Moreover, the online platform continues the Silk Road’s tradition and facilitates dialogue, encounters and exchanges among authorities, scholars, artists, educators, tourism professionals, students and youth.

About the project

The main goal of the project was to refresh the look and feel of the website. Silk Roads Programme' website was redesigned with the new UNESCO's style guide in mind. Apart from design, this was an opportunity to upgrade from Drupal 7 to what was the latest version of Drupal at that time.

Why Drupal was chosen

UNESCO has selected Drupal as its content management system of choice. The existing site was already built with Drupal 7.

Technical Specifications

Drupal version:

Drupal 8.x

Key modules/theme/distribution used:

Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen

The new website depends on Bootstrap 4 so Barrio was used as the base theme to implement our subtheme.

Implementation of maps was done using Leaflet and other modules supporting storing geo information.