Listen "Talking Drupal #081 - Drupal 8 in 2016"
Episode Synopsis
Topics
Drupal 8 - Full release 2016
Getting involved and getting started
Does this change anything in your mind?How to move forward with Drupal 8
Tips on building a volunteer hour tracking website
Module of the Week
Paragraphs - https://www.drupal.org/project/paragraphs
Paragraphs is the new way of content creation!
It allows you — Site Builders — to make things cleaner so that you can give more editing power to your end-users.
Instead of putting all their content in one WYSIWYG body field including images and videos, end-users can now choose on-the-fly between pre-defined Paragraph Types independent from one another. Paragraph Types can be anything you want from a simple text block or image to a complex and configurable slideshow.
Paragraphs module comes with a new "paragraphs" field type that works like Entity Reference's. Simply add a new paragraphs field on any Content Type you want and choose which Paragraph Types should be available to end-users. They can then add as many Paragraph items as you allowed them to and reorder them at will.
Paragraphs module does not come with any default Paragraph Types but since they are basic Drupal Entities you can have complete control over what fields they should be composed of and what they should look like through the typical Drupal Manage Fields and Manage Display screens.
You can also add custom option fields and do conditional coding in your CSS, JS and preprocess functions so that end-users can have more control over the look and feel of each item. This is way much cleaner and stable than adding inline CSS or classes inside the body field's source.
Resources
https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0/get-involved
https://groups.drupal.org/node/447258
Hosts
Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
Drupal 8 - Full release 2016
Getting involved and getting started
Does this change anything in your mind?How to move forward with Drupal 8
Tips on building a volunteer hour tracking website
Module of the Week
Paragraphs - https://www.drupal.org/project/paragraphs
Paragraphs is the new way of content creation!
It allows you — Site Builders — to make things cleaner so that you can give more editing power to your end-users.
Instead of putting all their content in one WYSIWYG body field including images and videos, end-users can now choose on-the-fly between pre-defined Paragraph Types independent from one another. Paragraph Types can be anything you want from a simple text block or image to a complex and configurable slideshow.
Paragraphs module comes with a new "paragraphs" field type that works like Entity Reference's. Simply add a new paragraphs field on any Content Type you want and choose which Paragraph Types should be available to end-users. They can then add as many Paragraph items as you allowed them to and reorder them at will.
Paragraphs module does not come with any default Paragraph Types but since they are basic Drupal Entities you can have complete control over what fields they should be composed of and what they should look like through the typical Drupal Manage Fields and Manage Display screens.
You can also add custom option fields and do conditional coding in your CSS, JS and preprocess functions so that end-users can have more control over the look and feel of each item. This is way much cleaner and stable than adding inline CSS or classes inside the body field's source.
Resources
https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0/get-involved
https://groups.drupal.org/node/447258
Hosts
Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
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