Talking Drupal #495 - Live From DrupalCon!
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Our Favorite things and The Future of Drupal with guest Jared Ponchot & Dave Hansen-Lange. For show notes visit: Topics What has piqued your interest AI creating components Any other new features or demos What haven't you seen that you hope to How do you feel about the future of Drupal Resources Guests Dave Hansen-Lange - Jared Ponchot - Hosts Nic Laflin - John Picozzi - Martin Anderson-Clutz - Andrew Berry -
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Talking Drupal #494 - AI in EDU
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about AI in EDU, how it can provide efficiencies, and how you might start using it today with guests Brian Piper & Mike Miles . We’ll also cover External Entities as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics How are you using AI with your team at Rochester How are you using AI with your team at MIT What are the AI policies at your institutions On the ingestion side how do you manage consumption Tips and tricks to incorporate AI into your work Can you talk more about using AI to distribute content outside the web Do you have tips for managers How have...
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Talking Drupal #493 - Drupal Developer Survey
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about The Drupal Developer Survey, Last year's results, and How it helps Drupal with guest Mike Richardson. We’ll also cover HTMX as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is the Drupal Developer Survey How often does it come out How did it come to be What type of information does it collect Do you look at other surveys What were some of the most interesting stats last year Core contributors How do you expect last year to compare to this year Do you think the outlook will be more positive with Drupal CMS Drop off in Drupal 7 Home users DDEV usage AI...
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Talking Drupal #492 - Pantheon Content Publisher
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Today we are talking about Pantheon Content Publisher, How it brings Google Docs to Drupal, and why you might want to use it with guests Chris Reynolds & John Money. We’ll also cover QR Code Fields as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is Pantheon Content Publisher Why was Pantheon Content Publisher created How does it work with Google docs How do you handle revisions How do you target environments Can you do structured content How do reference existing content How does this use GraphQL What are some of the use cases you are seeing Who should not use Pantheon...
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Talking Drupal #491 - OpenY
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Today we are talking about OpenY, a distribution for YMCAs, why it was created, and how it’s used today with guests Avi Schwab and Brent Wilker. We’ll also cover AI Media Image as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is OpenY Why is it important to the YMCA How many Y's use it Is each Y independent technologically Why doesn't the Y create a platform as a service How do you get the message out about OpenY What does a Y pay for and how do they pay What is the governance layer like Any thoughts on recipes How does theming work New features to come How does ImageX...
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Talking Drupal #490 - Drupal Contrib First
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Today we are talking about Drupal Contribution, how you can approach it within your company, and why a Contrib First approach is important with guest Steve Wirt. We’ll also cover Config Importer & Tools as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is contrib first How does this help the Drupal community Why is it a good idea for companies How do you explain this to non dev folks like CEOs or Presidents What do you say if a client does not buy in How do you monitor and build confidence in other developers How can someone get started Any tools or tips for someone trying...
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Talking Drupal #489 - IXP Community Initiative
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Today we are talking about The IXP Fellowship Initiative, Workplace Developer Training, and making Drupal better for the little guy with guests Carlos Ospina & Mike Anello. We’ll also cover Cloudflare Turnstile as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is the IXP initiative Why does the community think this is important What is the current status What changed in the last 10 years How do we encourage businesses to do this How can people get involved Resources Alternatives - privacy-focused alternative, still image-based - open, self-hosted option. Seems...
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Talking Drupal #488 - Drupal Open University
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Today we are talking about The open university initiative, Drupal in academia, and Fostering Drupal Education with guest Jean-Paul Vosmeer. We’ll also cover Artisan as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is the Drupal Open University Initiative How did this initiative start Why is it important to get Drupal into Universities and Classrooms What stage is the initiative at Is Drupal currently in any universities Is it better to approach schools or professors directly How is the curriculum being developed What are the main differences between this initiative and...
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Talking Drupal #487 - Single Directory Components Workflow
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Today we are talking about Single Directory Components, How best to work with them, and their future with Drupal with guest Brian Perry. We’ll also cover Embedded Content as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What are Single Directory Components (SDC) Why the switch to SDCs What is there in common between decoupled and SDCs Can you give us an overview of your workflow Common pitfalls How should someone get started working with SDCs Does it work with Paragraphs and Blocks? Does it need to be all at once How do you think SDCs will evolve Do you see this leading to more...
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Talking Drupal #486 - GraphQL & Drupal Decoupled
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Today we are talking about GraphQL, Drupal Decoupled, and What to do with them with guest Jesus Manuel Olivas. We’ll also cover CORS UI as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is GraphQL How do you use GraphQL with Drupal Would you use GraphQL without a headless theme Do you need additional server requirements What are some of your favorite GraphQL modules What caused the change from v3 to v4 What is meant by Drupal Decoupled What are the best use cases How do you handle caching and performance How do you handle roles and permissions Do you think AI has made decoupled...
info_outlineToday we are talking about The open university initiative, Drupal in academia, and Fostering Drupal Education with guest Jean-Paul Vosmeer. We’ll also cover Artisan as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/488
Topics
- What is the Drupal Open University Initiative
- How did this initiative start
- Why is it important to get Drupal into Universities and Classrooms
- What stage is the initiative at
- Is Drupal currently in any universities
- Is it better to approach schools or professors directly
- How is the curriculum being developed
- What are the main differences between this initiative and resources like Drupalize.me, Drupal at your fingertips, or Drupal TB
- What is next on the roadmap
- Where does Drupal CMS fit in
- Where does the initiative need help
- How can someone get involved
Resources
- Drupal Open University Initiative
- Metadrop blog about Artisan
- Drupal viking
- Do it with Drupal
- Drupal at your fingertips
- Drupal Open University
- OSPO
- Content Model & Site Documentation
Guests
Jean-Paul Vosmeer - reactonline.nl jpvos
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to use the Drupal UI to configure numerous aspects of your Drupal site’s look and feel? There’s a theme for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2024 by alejandro cabarcos though recent releases are by crzdev, both of metadrop
- Versions available: 1.3.8, which support Drupal 10 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, release in the last week
- Security coverage
- Documentation: no, but a lengthy README that includes developer notes
- Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 5 of which are bugs, but 3 are postponed
- Usage stats:
- 170 sites
- Module features and usage
- After installing the theme, there is a drush command to generate a subtheme, or you can manually duplicate an included starterkit. You also need to run a couple of npm commands to pull in all the front end libraries, and build the CSS files
- Once you set the subtheme as your site default, you can customize a variety of ways the site looks, including the fonts and weights to use for heading and default text, the colour and padding of various elements, border weights, border radius, and more.
- The customizations are grouped into tabs. The base tab includes a colour palette, base font, and link styling. Additional tabs include page layout, header, responsive, and footer, also breadcrumb, headings, display headings, buttons, forms, and components
- Artisan also provides a toggle to expose extra customization options for dark mode, so if you want your site to give users the option to switch back and forth between normal and dark, this is extremely powerful, but does make for some very long configuration pages
- You can create and save presets, for easy creation of reusable palettes
- There is also a companion Artisan Styleguide module that provides a page that previews the theme style applied to an extensive list of elements
- Last year I was considering making a more configurable subtheme of Olivero for the Event Platform initiative, so I was excited to read about Artisan in a metadrop blog post we’ll include in the show notes