University of Pittsburgh — Department of Psychology

A department site upgraded to Drupal 11 and modernised

A multi-hop core upgrade to Drupal 11 alongside a front-end modernisation, moving the theme onto a component model and its asset build into CI.

Role: Drupal development
Delivered with: Evolving Web

Drupal 11

Upgraded to

Multi-hop

Upgrade path

SDC

Component model

Asset build

This site had the two problems that usually arrive together: core several versions behind, and a front-end build nobody could run any more because its tooling had aged out.

The core upgrade proceeded in documented hops, each verified locally and on the hosting platform. In parallel the theme moved onto a component model and its asset build moved into CI, so compiled CSS stopped being committed by whoever happened to have a working local setup. Editors got a site that still looked like theirs; developers got one they could build.

Services delivered

Drupal version upgrades

Moving sites from Drupal 7, 8, 9 or 10 onto Drupal 11 — as a documented, deliverable-backed project rather than a hopeful weekend.

Design systems and theming

Component libraries built as Single Directory Components, documented in Storybook, and used by the site rather than filed next to it.

Platform engineering and DevOps

Local environments that match production, pipelines that catch problems before review, and deploys that are boring.