1. The document discusses several tools for content delivery in Drupal 8 including Default Content for seeding default content, Migrate for migrating content from other systems, Feeds for importing content from external sources, and Deploy for staging and previewing content. 2. Default Content allows creating and saving content without code directly in Drupal or as JSON files while Migrate programmatically imports content and Feeds supports importing RSS, CSV, and OPML files. 3. Deploy provides a content staging workflow with workspaces to stage, publish, and replicate content between environments.

1. Drupal 8: content
delivery tools
Oleksandr Medvediev

2. Oleksandr Medvediev
Drupal developer in ImageX
> 7 years in Drupal.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/medvedevalexandr

3. Reasons

4. Reasons

5. Agenda
Approaches to deal with content delivery
• Default Content
• Migrate
• Feeds
• Deploy
• Other tools

6. Default Content
Default content gives your module
and install profile a way to ship
default content as well as
configuration.
https://www.drupal.org/project/default_content
What can be done with it?
• Creating content using Drupal interface.
• Saving content into JSON files by entity type, entity id or as nodes with
references.
• Exporting content without writing excessive custom code.
• Using “drush only” way to export created content.

7. Default Content - pros and cons
Pros
• For creating content user doesn’t
need any programming skills.
• Using standard Drupal interface and
tools. Results can be seen right after
publishing.
• Very simple workflow.
• Minimum custom code.
• Saving referenced entities.
Cons
• Saving content in files in codebase as
part of custom module.
• Creating of duplicates of entities if
custom module is enabled again.
• Exported files with content are not
user-friendly (JSON/HAL).
• Nodes can’t be exported by bundle.
• Content can’t be rolled back.

8. Default Content. How to use?
Export single entity
$ drush default-content-export node 11
$ drush dce node 11
$ drush dce taxonomy_term 2 —
file=modules/custom/demo_module/content/taxonomy_te
rm/2.json

9. Default Content - Export referenced
content
Exports an entity and all its referenced entities
$ drush default-content-export-references node 123
$ drush dcer node 123
$ drush dcer node 123 —
folder=modules/custom/demo_module/content

10. Default Content - Structure of custom
module

11. Default Content - Additional modules
Default Content Deploy
This module (DCD) provides content deployment and allows development
and building sites without the need to transfer database between the sites.
$ drush dcdi —force-update

12. Default Content - Additional modules
Default content extra
Default Content Extra is a Drupal 8 only module that adds "extra",
experimental
functionality to the Default Content for D8 module
"path": {
"alias": “/my_awesome_path”
}

13. Drupal 8 Migrate
The Migrate API provides services for migrating data from a source system to
Drupal 8.

14. Drupal 8 Migrate - migration example

15. Drupal 8: Deploy - Content Staging
The Deploy module is designed to allow users to easily stage and preview
content for a Drupal site. Deploy automatically manages dependencies
between entities (like node references).

16. Drupal 8 - module Deploy

17. Drupal 8 - Deploy. How to use?
1.Enable Moderation on your Workspaces.
2.Add/Edit content in the Stage workspace.
3.Publish the Stage Workspace.
4.Content gets replicates to the Live Workspace.

18. Drupal 8 - Deploy. How it works?

19. Drupal 8 - Deploy. How it works?

20. Drupal 8 - Feeds
https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds
What can we done with it?
• One-off imports and periodic aggregation of content.
• Import or aggregate RSS/Atom feeds.
• Import or aggregate CSV files.
• Import or aggregate OPML files.
• Creating nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records
from import.
• Granular mapping of input elements to Drupal content elements.
• Exportable configurations.
• Batched import for large files.

21. Drupal 8 - Feeds roadmap.
Current version - 8.x-3.0-alpha2.
Feeds 8.x roadmap:
• Investigate if Migrate components can be used in Feeds.
• Have an usable CSV parser, an usable XML parser and a working Feeds
Tamper module with at least one Tamper plugin.
• Support for huge data files.
• Chained imports.
• Rollback imports.
• Keep same content ids as in the source.
• Analytic report of import process.

22. Drupal 8 - Other tools
Recreate block content -
(https://www.drupal.org/project/recreate_block_content)
Fixed Block Content - https://www.drupal.org/project/fixed_block_content
Simple block - https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_block
Custom module

23. Summary
1. Analyze your task, define the aim and chose suitable tools and
workflow for it.
1. Less code solutions: Default Content, Deploy, Feeds.
1. Solutions requiring code: Migrate, Custom solutions.
1. One time operation, quick content preview, prototype, feature
testing with required content - Default content.
1. Content import on regular bases - Migration.
1. Additional content moderation workflow and different access
levels to it - Deploy content staging.

24. Questions?

25. Thank you for attention!