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Mon, 26 August 2024
Talking Drupal #464 - Drupal Content Production

Today we are talking about Producing content with Drupal, How Drupal can help content producers, and ways it could be better with guest Jerry Ta. We’ll also cover Stage File Proxy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/464

Topics

  • Brief overview of Urban Institute using Drupal
  • What are the day to day responsibilities of a content producer
  • Layout Builder or Paragraphs
    • What is your opinion
  • You've been in content production for almost 2 decades, what was your first website editing tool.
  • How long have you been using Drupal
  • What is your number one wish the Drupal community would solve
  • Drupalcon
    • What value do you look for for a content producer
  • What is the hardest part of using Drupal
  • Starshot reaction
  • Predictions for Drupal in 5 years for content producers

Resources

Guests

Jerry Ta - joshmiller

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Josh Miller - joshmiller

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to work on code or configuration changes to your Drupal site in a non-production environment, without having to copy over all the images and other content files? There’s a module for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Jan 2011 by netaustin, by recent releases are by Stephen Mustgrave, who listeners will probably recognize from the Needs Review initiative, among his many other Drupal contributions
    • Versions available: 7.x-1.10, 3.0.0-alpha2, and 3.1.0, the last of which works with Drupal 10.3 and 11
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained
    • Security coverage
    • Test coverage
    • Documentation - not a lot, but it has been the subject of numerous blog posts over the years
    • Number of open issues: 15 open issues, 2 of which are bugs against the current branch
  • Usage stats:
    • 16,710 sites
  • Module features and usage
    • Once you have Stage File Proxy site up on your non-production site, when the environment gets a request for a content file it doesn’t have like an image, it will query the production site to create a local copy
    • It also has a mode where those requests are served 301 redirects to their location on the production server, so no files are ever copied
    • Once you have the module installed, you can set the origin website URL using the admin UI, using a drush variable-set command, or you can add a line to your settings.php file.
    • Also, if you have simple HTTP authentication set up on the site you want to pull from (for example using the Shield module), you can add URL-encoded versions of the username and password to the origin URL, and the module will still be able to copy down the files.
    • This module was previously covered in this podcast way back in episode #33, but I thought it was worth bring back because it is so useful for working on site locally or across non-production environments
Direct download: td-464-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT
Mon, 12 August 2024
Talking Drupal #463 - Drupal vs DIY Site Builders

Today we are talking about DIY Site Builders, what are the benefits over Drupal (If Any), and When using Drupal makes sense with guest Ivan Stegic. We’ll also cover Drupal 11 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/463

Topics

  • What is a DIY site builder
  • Does TEN7 use DIY site builders
  • How are DIY site builders better than Drupal
  • Are they less expensive than Drupal
  • HAve you ever suggested a site builder to a client
  • What does a migration from a site builder look like
  • Do you think starshot will make Drupal competitive with site builders

Resources

Guests

Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Josh Miller - joshmiller

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you been wanting a version of Drupal that can use Workspaces, Recipes, and Single Directory Components, while running all the latest versions of its underlying technologies? Drupal 11 is all of that and more
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created on Aug 2 by catch of Tag1 and Third & Grove
  • Module features and usage
    • Limited additions vs 10.3: by design to make the transition easier
      • Mostly in the recipes API, e.g. new config actions
    • Recap of new features vs. 10.0
      • Workspaces
      • Revisions and workflow are possible in the UI for Blocks and Taxonomy Terms
      • UI updates for creating and reusing fields, as well as bulk content operations
      • New Access Policy API and Single Directory Components
      • New Navigation and Announcements Feed modules
    • Contrib support out of the gate: about ⅔ of the top 200 modules already support Drupal 11
      • Adding modules that Rector estimates will only need info.yml or automated fixes brings us to over 80% of the top 200, or about 75% of all Drupal 10-compatible projects on Drupal.org
    • Updated dependencies: PHP 8.3, Symfony 7, CKEditor 5 42.0,2, Twig 3.9, Yarn 4, jQuery 4.0.0-beta, jQuery UI 1.14-beta.2 and more
    • Modules moved to contrib (smaller core):
      • Actions UI
      • Activity Tracker
      • Book
      • Forum
      • Statistics
      • Tour
    • Drupal 10 will receive maintenance support until mid-2026, so the community created this release of Drupal 11 early to give sites as much time as possible to make the transition, in this case almost 2 years!
Direct download: td-463-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT
Mon, 5 August 2024
Talking Drupal #462 - DrupalCon Singapore

Today we are talking about DrupalCon Singapore, What you can expect, and What’s next for Drupal in Asia with guest Mike Richardson & Surabhi Gokte. We’ll also cover Filefield Paths as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/462

Topics

  • When is Drupalcon Asia
  • The last one was in 2016, what did it take to reprise
  • How do you handle language barriers
  • What are your roles in the organizing committee
  • Steering committee and Drupal South
  • What can attendees expect
  • Any special programming
  • What kind of diversity is expected from attendees
  • Driving from Mumbai to Singapore is 110 hours
  • Will Dries be there
  • Can we expect future Drupalcon Asia's
  • Planning and logistics regarding coffee
  • Starshot

Resources

Guests

Mike Richardson - Singapore DrupalCon richo_au
Surabhi Gokte - surabhi-gokte

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Josh Miller - joshmiller

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to use a variety of tokens to customize the directory and file names of your uploaded files? There’s a module for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in July 2008 by Stuart Clark (Deciphered), though recent releases are by Oleh Vehera (voleger) of Golems GABB
    • Versions available: 7.x-1.2 and 8.x-1.0-beta7, the latter of which supports Drupal 9.3 or newer, and Drupal 10
  • Maintainership
    • Seeking co-maintainers
    • Security Coverage
      • Opted in, but no coverage in practice for Drupal 9 or 10
    • Test coverage
    • Number of open issues: 131 open issues, 50 of which are bugs against the current branch
  • Usage stats:
    • 34,609 sites almost 35,000 sites
  • Module features and usage
    • This module allows you to customize file names and paths by leveraging a variety of entity-based tokens
    • It also integrates with the Pathauto module, giving you options to clean up the tokens for example by removing slashes, filtering out words or punctuation, and so on
    • It can also work with the Transliteration module to convert unicode characters into US-ASCII
    • Filefield Paths has options to rename and move existing files, and can retroactively rename files, effectively bulk updating and moving all your existing files
    • It can also work with the Redirect module to automatically create redirects from the old path and filename to the new location, when renaming
    • I’d also like to give a tip of the cap to Jim Birch of Kanopi for suggesting this module, when I was talking to a customer who was looking to achieve pretty much exactly what this module does
Direct download: td-462-libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT