Panels 2 and Nodequeue 2

Panels 2 + Nodequeue 2 Editorial control of content presentation

Objectives
Create a simple “news” site
Create a complex front page that hints at our content
Create “section” entry pages that lead the user to content
Control what content is featured on these pages
http://nodequeue.demo.logrus.com

Basic premise
News articles can be any content type
Control sections by taxonomy
We’re not worrying about editorial control
We’re not publishing on a schedule

Why these two modules?
Finer layout control than blocks
Lets each pane know about data on page
Overrides basic pages
Pluggable and expandable to handle more objects
Lets the editor control order
Lets the editor control length
Automatically pairs with taxonomy
Panels Nodequeue

What’s a queue? 5 4 3 2 1 This end of the queue is the Tail or Back This end of the queue is the Head or Front New items are inserted at the tail of the queue. If a queue has a maximum size, the front of the queue is popped off.

Featured Stories
Story A
Story B
Story C
Story D
Story E
Featured stories is a nodequeue with a maximum queue size of 5. Story A was added first and is currently at the front of the queue. Story E was just added and is now at the back of the queue.

Featured Stories
Story B
Story C
Story D
Story E
Story F
When we added Story F to the queue, Story A popped off the front and is no longer a featured story.

Lead Article
Story Q
The Lead Article queue has a maximum size of one. Every time a new lead article is added to the queue, the former lead article is popped out, meaning there is only ever one lead article at a time.

Queues can be re-ordered

Queues can be re-ordered This is the front of the queue

Queues can be re-ordered And this is the back of the queue

That is, unless this box is checked:

Queues can be re-ordered When reversed, this is the back of the queue.

Smartqueues
One queue with many subqueues
Pluggable system
Can attach queues to arbitrary data
All queues have the same basic configuration
Many queues won’t clog up the UI
Subqueues are created as needed
Smartqueue taxonomy: 1 term, 1 subqueue

Your average site Header Left Sidebar Footer Right Sidebar Content

Panels: Content

Now with panels Header Left Sidebar Footer Right Sidebar

Contexts are objects
Nodes
Users
Taxonomy terms
Forms
Any other object someone writes a plugin for

Context source: Arguments http://www.example.com/node/12345 Node: Story XYZ

Context source: Relationships Node: Story XYZ Taxonomy Term Post Author Node: Author Profile

Context at work Header Left Sidebar Footer Right Sidebar Node: Story XYZ Taxonomy Term Post Author Node: Author Profile

Node: Story XYZ node.tpl.php node-panel-foo.tpl.php Attached files CCK Field Group Add comment form

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Panels 2 and Nodequeue 2

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