I've recently took on a new client, who has a 10+ year old Drupal 7 site, with 10+ years of ... decisions...

The file system is radio active disaster zone of files that I am 100% sure are mostly unused...

We just migrated the site to D11, and moved everything in to the media library, but theres still 12+GB of files that, as I said, are probably mostly not needed anymore.

Does anyone have a process, or documentation, or a guide of any kind on how to go about progromatically analyzing the content model, the actual usage in the database, with some sort of process to look for each file, and process them in some way to know which files are safe to delete?

Thanks!

Drupal version is 10.6.1. The site gives this WSOD:

The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later.

It was a test site with about a month of work done. No backups, never thought this could be a problem with Drupal in 2026.

Un-installed rules module with composer but error remains.

Is there any chance of recovery?

I'm trying to help a colleague find a local developer or agency in Ottawa that can help her update the Drupal version on a website which is on an older version that is no longer supported.

In addition to this immidiate update and perhaps some immediate reconfiguration of the website, she wants someone available for occasional updates or support on a per task basis without having to pay a monthly retainer or fee.

Does anyone have any advice on local independent contractors or agencies that would do this sort of work?

Happy birthday to Drupal! On January 14th, Drupal turned 25. Dries wrote up a nice reflection on those 25 years. In that, he wrote this

6. Nobody fully understands Drupal anymore, including me

After 25 years and tens of thousands of contributors, Drupal has grown beyond any single person's understanding. I also google Drupal's documentation. I'm strangely proud of that, because it's how I know it has become something bigger than any one of us.

Don't feel like you need to know it all. Grasp the fundamentals, Google the rest.

I a using chatgpt and gemini to help with upgrading some very complicated drupal7 to drupal10, and it works, but it takes lots conversations, am wondering anyone has experience by using ai agent to help with site/module upgrade automatically ? Thnks

Hello! I would be grateful if you leave feedback about my module.

https://www.drupal.org/project/layout_builder_formatter