A Recipe for Flexible Editing with Drupal, Panels, Kalatheme and Panopoly

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A Recipe for Flexible Editing

Carson Black

carsonblack

@carsonblack

www.carsonblack.com

Thursday, May 22, 14

• Flexibility

• Freedom under a benevolent dictator (developer)

• Structured Content

• Decoration

• Configuration in code

Prep and Pickup

• Prep

• Things that can be done in advance

• Pickup

• What you do when it’s time to put it together

Prep: Core vs. Panopoly Distro

• Core

• Plus modules

• Panopoly

• Most of what you need

• Plus maybe more than you really want...

Prep: Panels More flexible layout and content placement options

Panelizer

Default layout per bundle

Customize layout and “decoration” per node page

No overridden Features

Allowed content

Panels IPE

In-place editing of page content

Custom layout selection

Panopoly Magic

Customizes IPE Experience

Previews

Customize Views in Panels

Editing field content in IPE

Panopoly Theme Responsive Panels Layouts

Prep: Kalatheme

• Twitter Bootstrap

• Bootstrap importer and subtheme generator

• Panels instead of blocks

• Responsive

• Pane and region style plugins

• Responsive tools

• LESS / SASS

• Views module and obvious dependencies

• Views Content Panes

• Views Autocomplete Filters

Prep: Views

Prep: Custom Module(s)

• Custom View Modes for a content type

• Custom node templates (tpl.php) per view mode

• Default view mode selected

• Form alterations (Kalacustomize -> Custom) for field labels

Prep: Custom Module - Architecture

Prep: Custom Module - install

Basically, Set the weight of this module higher than Panopoly Magic module

Prep: Custom Module - hook_entity_info_alter()

Prep: Custom Module - hook_preprocess_node()

Prep: Custom Module - hook_theme_registry_alter()

Prep: Custom Module - hook_form_alter()’s

Prep: Custom Module - Node Templates

Pickup: Set Pane and Region Styles

Pickup: Create Content Pane Views

Pickup: Panelizer Allowed Content Settings

Pickup: Panelizer Default Panel Settings

Pickup: Get Crazy! ;-)

Pickup: Panopoly’s “Magical” Widgets

Goals Achieved?

• Flexibility

• Freedom under a benevolent dictator (developer)

• Content Structure vs. Decoration

• Configuration in code (Features friendly)

Thank You!

Carson Black

carsonblack

@carsonblack

www.carsonblack.com

A Recipe for Flexible Editing with Drupal, Panels, Kalatheme and Panopoly

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