Lightning is an open source starter kit and framework that helps developers tap into the richness of key D8 functionality, and build sites and experiences faster. At DrupalCon the team presented a session where we built an authoring experience live. This was the result of months of planning and practice. In this webinar, we will deconstruct each step in the build.
The broad concept for the experience we built during the speedrun was a product launch site with social feeds, CRM connected lead capture forms, authoring workflows for content marketers and campaign specific landing pages.
Speedrun steps that we will deconstruct:
-Develop a brand specific theme based on bootstrap using a css styleguide
-Configure a content approval workflow for content marketers and editors
-Configure new panelizer layouts, set defaults for editors and long-scroll landing pages using panels
-Create views-based social feeds, with curation based on a taxonomy
Lightning Distribution for Drupal: Build Advanced Authoring Experiences in Dr...Acquia
Lightning provides developers with a lightweight framework for building advanced authoring experiences in Drupal 8. Developers gain a massive head-start when building great authoring experiences with Lightning, but it has not been a simple development roadmap. In this webinar, learn about some of the decisions we had to tackle, including:
-Which modular functionality should be considered core to the authoring experience?
-How will developers extend Lighting to create their own corporate or vertical distributions that leverage our authoring capabilities?
-Should Lighting be divisible into its components?
-How do we give developers the best upgrade experience possible? <spoiler> Composer </spoiler>
We will also share more of the roadmap for Lightning including the Workplace Preview System, a Higher Education Scenario, and Decoupled Blocks integration. Also included will be a demo of all 18 of our user stories so you understand the intent and operation of the features we have implemented.
Drupal 7 vs. Drupal 8: A Contrast of Multilingual SupportAcquia
Unfortunately, the live event for this webinar has passed.
No need to worry! We always post the recorded webinar and slides within 24 hours of the event. Check back soon!
As you likely know, creating multilingual websites in Drupal 7—with its web of modules and dependencies—is not for the faint of heart. What takes Drupal 7 20+ contrib modules to support is now part of core in Drupal 8. Its 4 multilingual core pillars—Language, Interface, Content, Config—make Drupal 8 a relieving contrast to Drupal 7’s old patchwork of multilingual afterthought.
In this Tech Talk, we will:
-Review the Drupal 7 multilingual landscape in contrast to Drupal 8’s core multilingual capabilities
-Demonstrate how to properly prepare a Drupal 8 website for multilingual support
-Show the traditional process of translating Drupal 8 websites
-Explore how Acquia and Lingotek can help with the translation process for Drupal 8 websites
Introducing Workspace Preview System: Solve Your Content Preview ProblemsAcquia
The problem of accurately previewing changes to site content, especially in the context of other content (whether new or existing) has been a daunting challenge for years.
First addressed by the Site Preview System (SPS) as part of the Large Scale Drupal initiative, and more recently as the Content Preview System (CPS), the problem still exists. Using a new suite of both new and existing contributed modules, and leveraging the work being done as part of the core Workflow Initiative, the Workspace Preview System (WPS) is the third - and we hope definitive - solution to this space.
In this webinar, learn about how the Workspace Preview System can solve your content preview problems, with topics including:
-The history of Preview in Drupal
-Implementation details, including what contrib modules are used and what Lightning adds
-Different scenarios in which you’d use Workspace Preview System
-Current Workspace Preview System status and roadmap
Drupal 8 Quick Start: An Overview of LightningAcquia
Lightning is a a solid Drupal starterkit, that enables developers to create great authoring experiences and empower editorial teams. Lightning provides users with a lightweight framework for building working solutions in Drupal.
In our upcoming webinar, we will examine each component of Lightning and demonstrate how to leverage its features in any Drupal build. Topics included will review the use cases for each of the functional areas (layout, media, workflow, and preview) as well as the three development principles (security, automated testing, and integration). We’ll also give a summary of recent findings from the authoring experience summit at BADCamp and how they will affect the development timeline for Lightning.
Attendees will learn:
- How to significantly cut build time on advanced Drupal 8 projects using Lightning
- How Lightning improves the accuracy of your development estimates
- How you can contribute to the Lightning project
- Our 3 year vision for Lightning
Thinking of upgrading your website to Drupal 8 or using Drupal 8 for a new project? In this webinar, we'll talk about the benefits of Drupal 8 and the killer features that will make you want to upgrade.
We'll also discuss challenges of upgrading, major changes from previous versions of Drupal, and the steps you'll have to go through during the upgrade process.
This webinar covers:
Knowledge of the benefits of Drupal 8
Overall understanding of the upgrade process
An overview of which contributed moduels and themes are ready for Drupal 8
Some ideas for migrating your content and configuration
Tools and resources to use during your upgrade
Everything You Need to Know About the Top Changes in Drupal 8Acquia
<p>Drupal 8 is on the way. And we know you want to know -- what does this mean for me?!</p>
<p>Don't fear, Angie 'webchick' Byron is here! This one hour webinar will provide you with detailed overviews on the major changes in Drupal 8, as well as several short video demos that will give you a glimpse into a few of the newest features and capabilities. Angie will explain what D8 means for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Site Builders: See Views in Core, more (and better) blocks, improved entity and field features...the list goes on!</li>
<li>Front-end Developers: We're talking HTML5, libraries, accessibility enhancements, new themes and UI elements, and faster performance, to name a few.</li>
<li>Back-end Developers: A new configuration management system, a completely rehauled Entity API, improved caching, and new built-in web services features.</li></ul>
The Workflow Methodology to Train Your Team on Drupal 8Acquia
With all of the new updates in Drupal 8, it’s important to ensure that you and your team are fully trained on the improvements and changes. This webinar will do just that and will help you get up to speed on Drupal 8. Whether you need to train yourself, or a whole team, you’ll leave this webinar with useful resources and advice.
Join OSTraining, an Acquia training partner, to hear about the process for getting your team ready to build on Drupal 8. Topics covered will include:
- The course outline from the Drupal 8 Beginner class, used to get newcomers and site-builders ready to work with Drupal 8
- The skills that Drupal themers will need to learn including Twig, Javascript, and Headless Drupal (and where to learn them!)
- The abilities that Drupal 8 developers must learn including Symfony, object oriented programming, and the new REST API (and the resources available to learn them)
Learn How to Use Atomic Design to Make Your Site Manageable and AdaptableAcquia
<p>Future-proof your website, speed its delivery and promote consistency by building with Atomic Design principles. Modern websites assume more business responsibility and importance than ever before. As a result, they’ve grown into immensely complex organisms. With their greater size, you now need formal systems to make large websites manageable again - which is why today’s top digital organizations are turning to Atomic design.</p>
<p>Atomic design is a methodology of creating and maintaining design systems that rely on components to produce fully functioning and scalable pages. By building and reusing atoms, you can accelerate your team’s workflow, keep code consistent, avoid redundant work and streamline future site updates. Join FFW’s UK Technical Director and Acquia’s UX Manager to learn high level concepts and anecdotal deep-dives to see how Atomic Design can make your organization more efficient.</p>
<p>You’ll come away with:</p>
<ul>
<li>An introduction and overview of Atomic Design</li>
<li>The tangible benefits of Atomic Design: from content reusability to built in consistency</li>
<li>How we use Atomic Design and how you can use Atomic Design too</li></ul>
Lightning Distribution for Drupal: Build Advanced Authoring Experiences in Dr...Acquia
Lightning provides developers with a lightweight framework for building advanced authoring experiences in Drupal 8. Developers gain a massive head-start when building great authoring experiences with Lightning, but it has not been a simple development roadmap. In this webinar, learn about some of the decisions we had to tackle, including:
-Which modular functionality should be considered core to the authoring experience?
-How will developers extend Lighting to create their own corporate or vertical distributions that leverage our authoring capabilities?
-Should Lighting be divisible into its components?
-How do we give developers the best upgrade experience possible? <spoiler> Composer </spoiler>
We will also share more of the roadmap for Lightning including the Workplace Preview System, a Higher Education Scenario, and Decoupled Blocks integration. Also included will be a demo of all 18 of our user stories so you understand the intent and operation of the features we have implemented.
Drupal 7 vs. Drupal 8: A Contrast of Multilingual SupportAcquia
Unfortunately, the live event for this webinar has passed.
No need to worry! We always post the recorded webinar and slides within 24 hours of the event. Check back soon!
As you likely know, creating multilingual websites in Drupal 7—with its web of modules and dependencies—is not for the faint of heart. What takes Drupal 7 20+ contrib modules to support is now part of core in Drupal 8. Its 4 multilingual core pillars—Language, Interface, Content, Config—make Drupal 8 a relieving contrast to Drupal 7’s old patchwork of multilingual afterthought.
In this Tech Talk, we will:
-Review the Drupal 7 multilingual landscape in contrast to Drupal 8’s core multilingual capabilities
-Demonstrate how to properly prepare a Drupal 8 website for multilingual support
-Show the traditional process of translating Drupal 8 websites
-Explore how Acquia and Lingotek can help with the translation process for Drupal 8 websites
Introducing Workspace Preview System: Solve Your Content Preview ProblemsAcquia
The problem of accurately previewing changes to site content, especially in the context of other content (whether new or existing) has been a daunting challenge for years.
First addressed by the Site Preview System (SPS) as part of the Large Scale Drupal initiative, and more recently as the Content Preview System (CPS), the problem still exists. Using a new suite of both new and existing contributed modules, and leveraging the work being done as part of the core Workflow Initiative, the Workspace Preview System (WPS) is the third - and we hope definitive - solution to this space.
In this webinar, learn about how the Workspace Preview System can solve your content preview problems, with topics including:
-The history of Preview in Drupal
-Implementation details, including what contrib modules are used and what Lightning adds
-Different scenarios in which you’d use Workspace Preview System
-Current Workspace Preview System status and roadmap
Drupal 8 Quick Start: An Overview of LightningAcquia
Lightning is a a solid Drupal starterkit, that enables developers to create great authoring experiences and empower editorial teams. Lightning provides users with a lightweight framework for building working solutions in Drupal.
In our upcoming webinar, we will examine each component of Lightning and demonstrate how to leverage its features in any Drupal build. Topics included will review the use cases for each of the functional areas (layout, media, workflow, and preview) as well as the three development principles (security, automated testing, and integration). We’ll also give a summary of recent findings from the authoring experience summit at BADCamp and how they will affect the development timeline for Lightning.
Attendees will learn:
- How to significantly cut build time on advanced Drupal 8 projects using Lightning
- How Lightning improves the accuracy of your development estimates
- How you can contribute to the Lightning project
- Our 3 year vision for Lightning
Thinking of upgrading your website to Drupal 8 or using Drupal 8 for a new project? In this webinar, we'll talk about the benefits of Drupal 8 and the killer features that will make you want to upgrade.
We'll also discuss challenges of upgrading, major changes from previous versions of Drupal, and the steps you'll have to go through during the upgrade process.
This webinar covers:
Knowledge of the benefits of Drupal 8
Overall understanding of the upgrade process
An overview of which contributed moduels and themes are ready for Drupal 8
Some ideas for migrating your content and configuration
Tools and resources to use during your upgrade
Everything You Need to Know About the Top Changes in Drupal 8Acquia
<p>Drupal 8 is on the way. And we know you want to know -- what does this mean for me?!</p>
<p>Don't fear, Angie 'webchick' Byron is here! This one hour webinar will provide you with detailed overviews on the major changes in Drupal 8, as well as several short video demos that will give you a glimpse into a few of the newest features and capabilities. Angie will explain what D8 means for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Site Builders: See Views in Core, more (and better) blocks, improved entity and field features...the list goes on!</li>
<li>Front-end Developers: We're talking HTML5, libraries, accessibility enhancements, new themes and UI elements, and faster performance, to name a few.</li>
<li>Back-end Developers: A new configuration management system, a completely rehauled Entity API, improved caching, and new built-in web services features.</li></ul>
The Workflow Methodology to Train Your Team on Drupal 8Acquia
With all of the new updates in Drupal 8, it’s important to ensure that you and your team are fully trained on the improvements and changes. This webinar will do just that and will help you get up to speed on Drupal 8. Whether you need to train yourself, or a whole team, you’ll leave this webinar with useful resources and advice.
Join OSTraining, an Acquia training partner, to hear about the process for getting your team ready to build on Drupal 8. Topics covered will include:
- The course outline from the Drupal 8 Beginner class, used to get newcomers and site-builders ready to work with Drupal 8
- The skills that Drupal themers will need to learn including Twig, Javascript, and Headless Drupal (and where to learn them!)
- The abilities that Drupal 8 developers must learn including Symfony, object oriented programming, and the new REST API (and the resources available to learn them)
Learn How to Use Atomic Design to Make Your Site Manageable and AdaptableAcquia
<p>Future-proof your website, speed its delivery and promote consistency by building with Atomic Design principles. Modern websites assume more business responsibility and importance than ever before. As a result, they’ve grown into immensely complex organisms. With their greater size, you now need formal systems to make large websites manageable again - which is why today’s top digital organizations are turning to Atomic design.</p>
<p>Atomic design is a methodology of creating and maintaining design systems that rely on components to produce fully functioning and scalable pages. By building and reusing atoms, you can accelerate your team’s workflow, keep code consistent, avoid redundant work and streamline future site updates. Join FFW’s UK Technical Director and Acquia’s UX Manager to learn high level concepts and anecdotal deep-dives to see how Atomic Design can make your organization more efficient.</p>
<p>You’ll come away with:</p>
<ul>
<li>An introduction and overview of Atomic Design</li>
<li>The tangible benefits of Atomic Design: from content reusability to built in consistency</li>
<li>How we use Atomic Design and how you can use Atomic Design too</li></ul>
Best practices in Drupal make individual developers more productive which makes the entire team more productive. This was presented by Somedutta Ghosh in Drupal Camp Kolkata. #drupalcampkolkata
Drupal 8: Most common beginner mistakesIztok Smolic
It's been a "long and winding road" since the 20 mistakes I made with my first Drupal project. Drupal 8 had me learning everything all over again, but this time around, I was prepared... or so I thought.
If you're a Drupal site builder, you've probably heard about how you can migrate your content into Drupal using the Migrate module. But you might have assumed that migrating content is the 'developer's job': a long and arduous task best avoided.
As site builders, we're often responsible for setting up the information architecture of a Drupal site, and testing that the content provided fits into this architecture. We start most Drupal projects by looking at content: What content needs to be displayed on the website? How does it need to be organized? What's the content strategy? Site builders often become content experts, and are in a great position to inform the migration process. By learning about the migration process, we can make better site building decisions.
This session will provide an introduction to Drupal's Migrate module for site builders. No experience developing modules required. We'll look at how to get your content into Drupal, from another Drupal site or from an external CSV file. We'll also see how to line up your migration with Drupal’s configuration components.
Media handling in Drupal (Drupalcamp Leuven 2013)Pure Sign
Drupal provides various ways to enrich your dull textual content by adding pictures, video's and other media. All of the available solutions come with their advantages and disadvantages or pitfalls to take into account.
This presentation will give you an overview of the media landscape in Drupal and walk through the options that are available to you.
Topics include:
* Media handling in Drupal core
* Module comparison: Media, Scald, Asset
* WYSIWYG integration
* oEmbed
Eluminous Technologies has a rich experience in offering finest Drupal Developers. Many of the firms are benefited by using our Drupal Development Services.
Drupal upgrades and migrations. BAD Camp 2013 versionDavid Lanier
Originally presented at PNW Drupal Summit 2013. Revised for BADCamp 2013.
You have an aging Drupal 6 or even a Drupal 5 site. You know it's time to move up to Drupal 7. Now, how? There are two main ways to get there. You can perform a traditional upgrade, or you can migrate the data from the old site to a brand new site. In this session I will show how you can use these methods and discuss their benefits and drawbacks, including a thought process to go through when evaluating these options, drawing from some recent projects.
Walks through the top 8 improvements coming to Drupal 8, including videos and code samples to demonstrate "before vs. after."
Given to the @DrupalNS meet up in Bedford, Nova Scotia on July 28, 2014.
Drupal 8 brings a lot of changes. Many standby contributed modules are now included with Drupal Core, and many small changes add up to the most exciting Drupal release yet! We'll walk through many of the biggest changes, highlighting how Drupal 8 will accelerate your web development and provide tools to make Drupal the best content management platform on any device.
Matthew Cheney from Pantheon and Irina Zaks from Stanford will walk you through how to leverage Drupal 8's new migration tooling to “one-click” upgrade your sites.
Want to learn more about Acquia’s products, services, and happenings in the Drupal Community? Visit our site: http://bit.ly/yLaHO5.
Drupal 8 has introduced a number of new (to Drupalists) technologies, but embedded in this mix are a handful of Drupal-centric innovations. Amongst the first of these to be introduced to Drupal 8 was the Plug-in system. The Plug-in system is a far reaching PHP Component that has largely replaced the old hook_info/alter pattern within Drupal and can be used outside of Drupal as well.
In this webinar, Kris Vanderwater (You may know him as EclipseGc) will review:
• Examples of what appropriate plug-in system usages look like
• What plug-in tools exist and how to leverage them
• Where to get information on building your own plug-in types
• How to use the existing helper classes in Drupal for the greatest impact
We will compare and contrast how Drupal 7 versus Drupal 8 works for plugin converted subsystems to frame the discussion around when and why to build a conversion. In addition to this we will dig into the tools and classes Drupal provides out of the box, and dissect a simple example plug-in type that you can use to build your own plug-ins types and better understand the plug-in system.
Experience level: Advanced
We got to the point where the old Drupal mantra of creating content first to see it later is not enough to suceed with content editors. Drupal is competing and replacing other CMS and platforms where the lack of flexibility is the problem #1 for content editors. They are expecting full flexibity on how content is created, displayed, approved and published. However this introduce a common problem for web developers and site builders: how can you provide this full flexibility without having to be constantly on the hook for further development or configuration.
Modules like panels and panelizer, projects like Spark and distributions like panopoly and demo framework helped change the panorama in Drupal and the expectations that are set when sites are built.
In this session we will look to a set of common problems and real examples when creating content and layout for pages with demanding editorial teams. We will look and evaluate common options and recipes.
- How can complex content and rich pages be structured ? Free HTML format in different fields? Structured data in complex fields? Use paragraphs or field collection? Different content items in different items/entities? How to glue it all together?
- How can indivual page layout be managed providing flexibility but also control? Rely on templating system and view modes? Use contrib modules like panels and panelizer or display suite? Mix several approaches and modules?
- How can I add any content to any page and choose its display ? How can I have a list of curated widgets ready to use by the content team to deploy anywhere or in any section?
- How can pages and sections be managed before approved and published? Use prewiew systems and inline editors? Use workbench or workflow for layout? Rely on more complex content staging systems? Use separated environments?
These are daily problems that architects and developers face in every project. As a technical architect in Acquia it is uncommon a project where I am involved that does not need to solve one or more of these problems. In this session I will give some real examples and resume options and recipes that can be used to solve those problems today in Drupal 7 and look to Drupal 8 to explain how it can improve some of our possibilities and options and easy the life of one of our most important personas: the content editor.
Developing Custom WordPress Themes for ClientsSteven Slack
Should you develop custom themes for clients? When is it necessary? Why should you build custom themes for clients? Things that will be covered in this talk include, starting a theme from scratch, theme boilerplates, working with clients through the process, cost, performance, properly planning theme architecture around clients content, integrating with plugins and custom plugins, presentation vs functionality, updates and maintenance, shipping and installing the theme, training clients, populating site with content, and getting paid!!
Best practices in Drupal make individual developers more productive which makes the entire team more productive. This was presented by Somedutta Ghosh in Drupal Camp Kolkata. #drupalcampkolkata
Drupal 8: Most common beginner mistakesIztok Smolic
It's been a "long and winding road" since the 20 mistakes I made with my first Drupal project. Drupal 8 had me learning everything all over again, but this time around, I was prepared... or so I thought.
If you're a Drupal site builder, you've probably heard about how you can migrate your content into Drupal using the Migrate module. But you might have assumed that migrating content is the 'developer's job': a long and arduous task best avoided.
As site builders, we're often responsible for setting up the information architecture of a Drupal site, and testing that the content provided fits into this architecture. We start most Drupal projects by looking at content: What content needs to be displayed on the website? How does it need to be organized? What's the content strategy? Site builders often become content experts, and are in a great position to inform the migration process. By learning about the migration process, we can make better site building decisions.
This session will provide an introduction to Drupal's Migrate module for site builders. No experience developing modules required. We'll look at how to get your content into Drupal, from another Drupal site or from an external CSV file. We'll also see how to line up your migration with Drupal’s configuration components.
Media handling in Drupal (Drupalcamp Leuven 2013)Pure Sign
Drupal provides various ways to enrich your dull textual content by adding pictures, video's and other media. All of the available solutions come with their advantages and disadvantages or pitfalls to take into account.
This presentation will give you an overview of the media landscape in Drupal and walk through the options that are available to you.
Topics include:
* Media handling in Drupal core
* Module comparison: Media, Scald, Asset
* WYSIWYG integration
* oEmbed
Eluminous Technologies has a rich experience in offering finest Drupal Developers. Many of the firms are benefited by using our Drupal Development Services.
Drupal upgrades and migrations. BAD Camp 2013 versionDavid Lanier
Originally presented at PNW Drupal Summit 2013. Revised for BADCamp 2013.
You have an aging Drupal 6 or even a Drupal 5 site. You know it's time to move up to Drupal 7. Now, how? There are two main ways to get there. You can perform a traditional upgrade, or you can migrate the data from the old site to a brand new site. In this session I will show how you can use these methods and discuss their benefits and drawbacks, including a thought process to go through when evaluating these options, drawing from some recent projects.
Walks through the top 8 improvements coming to Drupal 8, including videos and code samples to demonstrate "before vs. after."
Given to the @DrupalNS meet up in Bedford, Nova Scotia on July 28, 2014.
Drupal 8 brings a lot of changes. Many standby contributed modules are now included with Drupal Core, and many small changes add up to the most exciting Drupal release yet! We'll walk through many of the biggest changes, highlighting how Drupal 8 will accelerate your web development and provide tools to make Drupal the best content management platform on any device.
Matthew Cheney from Pantheon and Irina Zaks from Stanford will walk you through how to leverage Drupal 8's new migration tooling to “one-click” upgrade your sites.
Want to learn more about Acquia’s products, services, and happenings in the Drupal Community? Visit our site: http://bit.ly/yLaHO5.
Drupal 8 has introduced a number of new (to Drupalists) technologies, but embedded in this mix are a handful of Drupal-centric innovations. Amongst the first of these to be introduced to Drupal 8 was the Plug-in system. The Plug-in system is a far reaching PHP Component that has largely replaced the old hook_info/alter pattern within Drupal and can be used outside of Drupal as well.
In this webinar, Kris Vanderwater (You may know him as EclipseGc) will review:
• Examples of what appropriate plug-in system usages look like
• What plug-in tools exist and how to leverage them
• Where to get information on building your own plug-in types
• How to use the existing helper classes in Drupal for the greatest impact
We will compare and contrast how Drupal 7 versus Drupal 8 works for plugin converted subsystems to frame the discussion around when and why to build a conversion. In addition to this we will dig into the tools and classes Drupal provides out of the box, and dissect a simple example plug-in type that you can use to build your own plug-ins types and better understand the plug-in system.
Experience level: Advanced
We got to the point where the old Drupal mantra of creating content first to see it later is not enough to suceed with content editors. Drupal is competing and replacing other CMS and platforms where the lack of flexibility is the problem #1 for content editors. They are expecting full flexibity on how content is created, displayed, approved and published. However this introduce a common problem for web developers and site builders: how can you provide this full flexibility without having to be constantly on the hook for further development or configuration.
Modules like panels and panelizer, projects like Spark and distributions like panopoly and demo framework helped change the panorama in Drupal and the expectations that are set when sites are built.
In this session we will look to a set of common problems and real examples when creating content and layout for pages with demanding editorial teams. We will look and evaluate common options and recipes.
- How can complex content and rich pages be structured ? Free HTML format in different fields? Structured data in complex fields? Use paragraphs or field collection? Different content items in different items/entities? How to glue it all together?
- How can indivual page layout be managed providing flexibility but also control? Rely on templating system and view modes? Use contrib modules like panels and panelizer or display suite? Mix several approaches and modules?
- How can I add any content to any page and choose its display ? How can I have a list of curated widgets ready to use by the content team to deploy anywhere or in any section?
- How can pages and sections be managed before approved and published? Use prewiew systems and inline editors? Use workbench or workflow for layout? Rely on more complex content staging systems? Use separated environments?
These are daily problems that architects and developers face in every project. As a technical architect in Acquia it is uncommon a project where I am involved that does not need to solve one or more of these problems. In this session I will give some real examples and resume options and recipes that can be used to solve those problems today in Drupal 7 and look to Drupal 8 to explain how it can improve some of our possibilities and options and easy the life of one of our most important personas: the content editor.
Developing Custom WordPress Themes for ClientsSteven Slack
Should you develop custom themes for clients? When is it necessary? Why should you build custom themes for clients? Things that will be covered in this talk include, starting a theme from scratch, theme boilerplates, working with clients through the process, cost, performance, properly planning theme architecture around clients content, integrating with plugins and custom plugins, presentation vs functionality, updates and maintenance, shipping and installing the theme, training clients, populating site with content, and getting paid!!
Choosing Drupal as your Content Management FrameworkMediacurrent
In Kendall Totten's presentation, "Choosing Drupal as a Content Management Framework for Your Next Project" she covered questions such as:
-What is Drupal and what makes it great?
-What is involved with building & theming a Drupal site?
-How to get a Drupal site off the ground quickly
-The difference between a base theme and a regular theme
-Modules that make theming easier
Spark: Authoring Experience++ in Drupal 7, 8, and BeyondAngela Byron
Spark is an initiative led by Acquia's Office of the CTO under Dries Buytaert, the Drupal project lead. We take a holistic look at Drupal's competition and design and implement features to help close the gaps.
One big gap that has consistently held Drupal adoption back is that of the out-of-the-box content authoring experience. Hand-typing HTML like it's 1994, previews that aren't actually previews, and interfaces that are unusable on a mobile device all present big challenges for those coming to Drupal. While all of these problems have numerous workarounds in contrib, Spark's goal is to improve the Drupal product itself to eliminate this friction innately, so site builders can spend less time smoothing out rough edges and more easily focus on what they came to Drupal to do: build their actual sites. :)
Spark is both a Drupal distribution and a set of discrete modules for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 (in many cases, Drupal 8 core) which can enhance the user experience for your site's content authors, including:
Mobile Friendly Navigation Toolbar
In-Place Editing
Responsive Preview
WYSIWYG editing
Improved Accessibility
Redesigned Administration Theme
...and more!
This talk will focus on demonstrating these new features and explain how site builders can take advantage of them, as well as talk about what the next areas of focus for the Spark team will be for Drupal 9 and beyond.
Becoming a drupal master builder - Given at Drupal Camp London 2016
I've been building Drupal sites for a number of years and have a broad experience building Drupal sites with various levels of complexity. I often work with other agencies to build Drupal sites or to migrate existing sites and as a result I will often see some very common mistakes and errors that shouldn't be happening. Due to Drupal's popularity I also see Drupal sites in the wild and can clearly see the same mistakes going on there as well.
During this talk I'll show some basic site building tips as well as some more complex and technical strategies that will make your Drupal sites better and more maintainable. Rather than just show you what to do, I'll also be explaining why doing those things are important and how developers and their websites will benefit from them. Although I'll be mainly concentrating on Drupal 7, some of these techniques are also applicable to Drupal 8.
Design Summit - Technology Vision - Oleg Barenboim and Jason FreyManageIQ
Oleg and Jason share the vision for the ManageIQ technology, integration with partners, and an overview of the roadmap.
See accompanying video: http://youtu.be/lokMmVCavas
For more on ManageIQ, see http://manageiq.org/
These are the commented slides explaining the Joomla! X lighthouse approach, which was presented in the Joomla! 4 session on J and Beyond 2016 in Barcelona.
Starting a Drupal 8 Project? Let’s do a Technical Discovery - DrupalConAsia 2...Ravindra Singh
When we are going to start a Drupal 8 project, we need to plan before we can actually start development. Will be talking about a case study around a project that we recently completed. We were asked to move a media publishing website from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8.
Congratulations! You’ve installed WordPress! Now what?
Installing WordPress is just the beginning. Adjust your settings, choose a theme, and decide which plugins to run. At this month’s meetup four of our long-time meetup members are going to help you navigate WordPress after you install it.
"Your customer data flows faster each day, which is why collecting, organizing, and doing something meaningful with it is just good business.
But, it can be tough to do.
Stashing data in different places across your organization to come back (hopefully) later is a great way to mismanage or lose it. Squirrels can stash, but enterprises can’t.
You need a customer data platform (CDP). A central command center that securely holds your customer data and lets you organize it according to your goals.
The thing is, what’s best for you? A CDP out-of-the-box? Building a customer data solution yourself? There’s merit in both options, and this webinar is here to help you narrow down what’s best for your business. Acquia, Bounteous, and Appnovation will show you:
How a single source for customer data storage can mitigate risk and optimize customer experience
How central data governance will help your customer data strategy once the almighty Google takes away cookies
The comprehensive CDP build-or-buy checklist + CDP must-haves for your budget
First-party data management that keeps your customers' data safe and your business booming
It’s 10 PM, do you know where your data is?"
Taking Your Multi-Site Management at Scale to the Next LevelAcquia
Creating digital experiences across a portfolio of sites can present a big challenge. It requires thinking about scale in multiple dimensions, from standardizing on a technology toolset and driving adoption of that platform across an organization, to establishing content governance and user experience standards to guide the design and build of many sites. In order to build a foundation for scale, all of these dimensions and more need to be addressed. With a strong foundation, next-level digital strategies such as multi-channel content management and personalization can be incorporated into your multi-site management.
Join digital leaders and experts from Princeton University, FFW, and Acquia, to learn from their experiences tackling multi-site management at scale. Hear about best practices drawn from the large portfolios of sites that higher-ed institutions manage, and discover Acquia’s holistic solution for multi-site management with Acquia Site Factory+, Acquia Site Studio, Widen DAM, and Acquia Personalization.
During this webinar we will explore:
A major Princeton University Web Development Services initiative to migrate 1,000 websites to Acquia
How organizing content in one system can simplify control, improve access and increase use
How coordinated distribution supports greater customer experiences and deeper engagement
How to scale and accelerate organization-wide adoption of a design system
How to improve content performance and experience through A/B testing to continually optimize users’ engagement
How to collect data on your customers to be able to define segments to offer personalized experiences
At Acquia, we know we’re stronger when we work together. That’s why we always put our partners first. Our strong partner network, combined with a diverse portfolio of solutions and a clear focus on innovation, empowers us to lead the charge in delivering more open, creative, powerful digital experiences to customers everywhere.
How to Unify Brand Experience: A Hootsuite Story Acquia
Is your brand content difficult to manage, creating bottlenecks across global workflows? Are your teams struggling with quickly finding approved files so much that they start creating their own private collections of assets?
It can get out of hand in no time and the next thing you know, your brand is compromised.
Proper brand management is crucial to keeping your organization’s digital identity unified wherever people interact with it. And the path toward brand consistency begins with a single source to store everything brand-related: a digital asset management (DAM) system.
Join us for an upcoming webinar where we'll dive into more detail on how Hootsuite achieved a sense of control over the what, who, how, and when of their brand’s digital elements.
We'll cover:
- Why digital asset management is key to brand consistency and success
- How to accelerate time to market while staying brand-compliant
- How Hootsuite created a cohesive brand experience with Acquia DAM and enhanced collaboration between global teams
Improve Code Quality and Time to Market: 100% Cloud-Based Development WorkflowAcquia
Modern web development should be seamless. Unfortunately, assembling, testing, and deploying production level code on time and with confidence is a challenge that many organizations face.
Developers and IT leaders, join this webinar to learn how Acquia’s end-to-end web platform will enable you to get your applications to market faster, improve code quality, and reduce security risk.
With Acquia’s 100% cloud-based development tools optimized specifically for Drupal, building, testing, and deploying will all take place on our platform and your feet never need to touch the ground.
We’ll cover:
- How to manage the entire developer lifecycle from our platform
- How to enable continuous testing and deployment
- Why cloud based IDEs are the future of development
- How to get started with a working app on day one
- Which tools are available and how to get the most out of them
See slides of Acquia’s Partner Bootcamp held on September 21st at 10:00 AM EST/15:00 BST/16:00 CET where we shared easy-partner plays to dramatically save you time and effort, and your clients money.
You asked, we listened watch Acquia’s Partner Bootcamp which went live on August 24th at 10:00 AM EST/15:00 BST/16:00 CET where we showed live demos of:
-Employee Experience Proof of Concept on Acquia CMS - demo of our Total Employee Experience concept & benefits.
-Upgrading from Drupal 7 Made Eas(ier) - live upgrade of a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 9 using Acquia Migrate Accelerate.
-CDP Beyond Retail - Use cases for more industries where customer is at the core
As the world emerges into a post-pandemic glow, consumer demand is rebounding. To meet this demand, Partners need to accelerate growth and scale global digital operations for their customers.
Acquia’s Q2 Program Increment is designed to help partners re-engineer the digital stack and increase services revenue. With a focus on; how to scale for new growth of content and experiences, data and insights, digital services and digital products for their customers
Learn more about:
Marketing Cloud Enhancements including the New Marketer Experience, Machine Learning Capabilities, and Global Governance and Compliance.
Drupal Cloud Enhancements including Cloud Next / China Managed Services, a new Developer Experience, and Employee Experience
Supercharge shoppable experiences everywhere with Acquia DXP
Join Acquia for a Partner Bootcamp on May 18th and learn how the DX Alliance empowers our partners to provide exceptional client services, increased services revenue, and improved customer retention.
On the day you will learn about:
Composable Commerce
Create more engaging shoppable experiences in record time with unified first-party data and composable architecture using no-code tools. Unlock the ability for anyone to deliver unique catalogue experiences, deliver lightning-fast value, uncover new needs, and increase customer loyalty.
Acquia Open DXP Pricing & Packaging
Learn how Acquia has redefined pricing & packaging across its entire portfolio with industry-first unified pricing metrics and prescriptive bundles to deliver greater value and streamline selling and client experiences.
Acquia Migrate Accelerate
Preparing your customers for their journey to Drupal 9 has never been more critical with D7 and D8 EOL approaching. Explore our automated tool for D7 to D9 migrations and other strategies to help your customers accelerate their migration timelines.
-Sneak Peak into Acquia Cloud Next
Update to our Cloud Platform that leverages the most modern and innovative AWS technology.
DRUPAL 7 END OF LIFE IS NEAR - MIGRATE TO DRUPAL 9 FAST AND EASYAcquia
As Drupal 7 is reaching EOL in November 2022, it’s time to start thinking about Drupal 9 migration. With all the planning and preparations needed to migrate, it can be overwhelming to take the leap. But don't panic. We’ve got you covered—with all the tools and concrete steps you need to make the move to Drupal 9 efficient and painless.
Acquia webinar: Leveraging Drupal to Bury Your Sales Team In B2B LeadsAcquia
CloudHealth’s story of ramping up their B2B digital experience through an upgrade to Drupal 8 is impressive - and they’re not alone. Organizations of all kinds are discovering how Drupal 8 can boost lead generation, and ensure those leads get to the sales team faster than ever before. We’d love to answer any questions you might have, and explore how Drupal can empower your own sales team.
April partner bootcamp deck cookieless futureAcquia
Google’s recent announcement to ‘phase out support for third-party tracking cookies , has been viewed by many as the final blow in the death of third-party cookies in marketing. It is also the latest wave pushing us toward stronger privacy-focused open web standards.
But what does the death of third-party cookies mean for Acquia Partners? In a nutshell, it means that you must develop a powerful first-party data strategy for your customers so they can win the trust and loyalty of theirs.
Watch our on-demand Partner Bootcamp and learn how you can stay ahead of the curve.
We explored:
Evolving from customer acquisition to consent-driven personalization
The rise of the Customer Data Platform (CDP)
Why a first-party data strategy requires data unification across the customer lifecycle
You will also hear from Mark Royko about Acquia Practice Certification program
How to enhance cx through personalised, automated solutionsAcquia
Automation of processes and optimisation of self-service are key when ensuring dialogue and direct support in moments of need. Freed up resources as a result of efficient self-service can be allocated to supporting customers in difficult situations. Equally, personalised and automated advice is proven to be extremely valuable when timely answers are needed and decisions are to be made.
Personalisation - seamless customer experience: is this possible? How do you build consumer confidence to provide data for effective personalisation?
In this webinar, Acquia will share advice and best practices on how to leverage knowledge and intelligent advice to provide instant value both for customers and employees.
- What consumers feel about personalisation (CX Survey results)
- How to understand customer intent across multiple engagement channels
- The importance of permission-based data sharing and moving beyond cookie-based data collection
- Discuss with CX experts on best practices, challenges, solutions and examples that audience can relate to
- Get advice on where to turn for support, how to quickly adopt use cases of intelligent advice, and answers to your questions
- Hear about how personalized advice and automated decisions can make a difference for your service model, your customers and employee
DRUPAL MIGRATIONS AND DRUPAL 9 INNOVATION: HOW PAC-12 DELIVERED DIGITALLY FOR...Acquia
Supporting content delivered across a multitude of channels for 20+ sports at the NCAA Division I level, Pac-12 has continuously sought to push the boundaries of what is possible with Drupal as their content management system (CMS). From Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, and from roaring crowds of fans to the new digital fanbase -- Pac-12 has continuously provided an unparalleled and cutting-edge experience and they aren’t done yet.
Join our webinar to learn about Pac-12’s digital past, present, and future including:
Pac-12’s Drupal Migrations from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and onto Drupal 9
How Pac-12 shifted to support their digital fanbase
How Pac-12 extended Drupal as their internal and external orchestration platform
A look into Pac-12’s approach to FAST (Free Ad Supported Television)
We will also hear from Pac-12’s partner, Phase2, around their best practices for executing Drupal migrations and how they worked with Pac-12 to deliver their Drupal 8 site.
In the era of the experience economy, the combination of technology, talent and touchpoints are key success factors in building sustainable relationships, optimising time to value and facilitating the dialogue between the customer and the brand.
In times of change, organisations are providing advice in challenging situations, guiding information search and facilitating important decisions for individual customers at the same time as they are adopting new ways of working in a dynamic business environment.
Acquia is collaborating with numerous companies globally around customer digital experience and we are here to support with advice, inspiration and open dialogue.
Join our Digital Customer Experience webinar series, where we focus on today’s relevant topics and discuss the role and importance of digital customer experience in an ever-changing world to:
Hear about timely topics, survey findings for Australia and Singapore in the domain of customer experience
- Get advice on where to turn for support and answers to your questions
- Discuss with CX experts on best practices, challenges and solutions
- Key trends overview - why are they relevant to your business?
- Brief on content to be covered in each subsequent webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
9. Our site’s requirements
● Store references to tweets, which
can be promoted to the front page
● Ability to move content into
“needs review”
● Authors and editors must be able to
control content layout
11. Content modeling
● Describe all the fields in each entity type
● Describe relationships with other entities
● Describe display configuration -- not design
● What does the user see?
● Refine iteratively alongside wireframes
15. Media handling
● Media Entity module defines an abstract entity type for
storing media
● Consistent handling of social media and digital media
● != File Entity, because media might not be a file
● Media entities are standard content entities
● Fieldable / Revisionable / Views integration
17. Content workflow
● Drupal’s default workflow is
published or unpublished
● A boolean workflow doesn’t meet the
needs of editorial teams
● Workbench Moderation lets you
configure permissions for
transitions between arbitrary states
● Only transitions that CAN be applied
will be offered
20. Layout control
Level 1 of 4: Drupal Core
● You can choose which fields to show,
configure them and reorder them
● No concept of regions
● If you need to lay things out, you probably
need themer help
21.
22. Layout control
Level 2 of 4: Single layout
● Uses Panels, Panelizer, and Layout Plugin
● Retains core functionality
● Has concept of regions
● Can display more than just entity fields
● Don’t need a themer to make layout changes
● Includes additional Panels-ey goodness (contexts, etc.)
23. Theme Wizardry: custom layouts
● Layout Plugin: the standardized solution for custom layouts
● Very familiar to D7 themers
● At a minimum, layout plugins are YAML + Twig + CSS
● In the simplest case, they’re a set of named regions
● Because they are plugins, they can have logic behind them
(configurable layouts!)
24.
25. Layout control
Level 3 of 4: Multi-layout
● What’s better than one panelized layout? Many panelized layouts!
● Choose one to be the default
● Editors can choose a layout, or stick with the default
● Changes will flow downstream
● Still don’t need any help from a themer
28. Layout control
Level 4 of 4: Panels IPE
● Full drag and drop control
● Begin from a preconfigured (possibly empty) layout and
customize it on a one-off basis
● Instant preview of everything -- nearly WYSIWYG
● STILL don’t need a themer!
● And that, finally, is enough power.
30. What problems did we solve?
● MEDIA: Media can be anything, can be embedded anywhere, can be molded
to fit business requirements
● LAYOUT: Layouts can be built visually by non-techs, and custom layouts can
be used easily by authors
● WORKFLOW: Can build our own workflow according to business needs, and
it must be followed
● PREVIEW: Can see exactly what a collection of changes will look like before
the users do
33. Let’s build some stuff!!!
● Article with a layout and embedded media
● A training program, which can switch between
layouts
● The home page (a full-bleed landing page with
completely arbitrary layout)
● Promote a tweet to the home page
34. Theme Wizardry: full-bleed regions
● Tricky to do in Drupal OOTB. How did we do it?
● Created a new theme region that sits outside the main
page container
● Created custom layouts that supported full-bleed
(bundled ones may not work)
35. Theme Wizardry: preprocess functions
● Basically ring 0*; any sorcery is possible here
● You can move content from one place to another
● You can gather contextual information that is unavailable
to the template and use it to influence the output
● Best used for slight, context-sensitive modifications (e.g.
adding a CSS class or style if a condition is true)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_ring
36. Lightning Media
● Built on Media Entity and its related ecosystem
● All media is generic and reusable, and supports arbitrary metadata
● Reusable via the incredibly flexible Entity Browser module
● Can embed any entity into rich text editors using Embed and Entity
Embed
● Lightning provides sane default configuration for these modules, but
you can override
37. Example: Tweets
● Need to store tweets for future reuse
● Need to display tweets in a view
● Need a way to mark choice tweets as
“promoted to front page”
● Want to embed tweets into other content as
needed
38. Lightning Layout
● Based on the best-of-breed layout solutions for Drupal (in our opinion)
● Goal is to be intuitive and visual
● Control of layout should be in the hands of authors
● Built on top of a common layout system (Layout Plugin), slated for
core
● Panelizer: create reusable layouts for entities in many different
contexts
● Panels IPE: A visual layout builder with instant preview
39. Example:
Landing Page + Panelizer Choices
● Need to visually create attractive landing
pages from pre-built pieces
● Certain content must support more than one
layout, the choice of which is up to authors
● Need custom layouts in order to support
full-bleed pages
40. Lightning Workflow
● Improves on Drupal’s editorial workflow process
● Based upon work that is now in core
● Define arbitrary “moderation states” and transitions
between them
● Transitions are a true directional workflow, not just
publish/unpublish
● Works with any kind of content entity
41. Example: Editorial Workflow
● Blog content type
● Must be submitted for legal review before
publication
● Once in legal review, must be published or
sent back to draft
42. Lightning Preview
● Based on core Workflow Initiative
● Introduces the concept of workspaces
● Works by separating all content entities into semi-isolated
silos
● Conflicts can be tracked and resolved (soon)
● Preview everything exactly as it will appear in the live site
HERE BE DRAGONS
This is currently experimental