drupal panopoly – the content creator's best friend

mazze.ch | matthias walti information architect

Drupal Panopoly “Start building your website from the 10th floor”

Drupal Camp Berlin 2014

Matthias Walti Drupal site builder

Drupal themerOccasional copywriter

Muri, Switzerland@matthiaswalti

Sitebuilder? Oh yes:-)

This presentation is from a sitebuilder’s perspective, using Drupal for marketing and/or commerce projects.

Topics About Drupal Distributions

Panopoly for site builders

Panopoly for content editors

Panopoly for business

Issues with Panopoly

Drupal Distributions

Drupal Distributions Open AtriumOpen Public

Commerce KickstartOpigno

RestaurantOpen CivicRecruiter

And much more…

The thing with distributions… Great for exploring a topic.

Awesome for pitching Drupal projects.

But:When used in a production environment, Drupal distros are often too “demoish” and overloaded with functions.

Plus:Theming Drupal core can be painful.

Theming a Drupal distribution is a nightmare.

Welcome to Panopoly The base distribution for Drupal

Panopoly for site builders

Pre-configured functions

Common scenarios (e.g. search)

Layouts

Pre-configured entity types

Pre-configured field types

User Role “Editor”

Settings

Out-of-the box responsiveness

Granular user rights

Updates on a regular basis

Compatible module versions

And last but not least:Leaving your site builder’s

comfort zone Embrace best practices

Embrace PanelsEmbrace Features

Embrace AppsRealize that your own distribution is within reach

Panopoly for content editors (AKA the people who actually pay and use the site)

Landing pages without IT involved

In-place page building

Improved editor experience

Content management on the tablet

Content Prototypes with Panopoly

Panopoly for supporting your business

Features

Distributions

Sales tool

The ecosystem – e.g. Commerce

Save hours, days, weeks of work

Issues with Panopoly

Bugs Very stable when being used in production environments,

but still a little bit buggy for specific site building tasks

My “Missing” Modules Some modules I usually add to any Panopoly installation

RulesDisplay Suite

PicturesMultilingual Support

Additional search modulesCommerce

CoffeeCKEditor

ZURB Foundation base theme

www.drupal.org/project/coffee

Try Panopoly https://www.getpantheon.com/

https://www.drupal.org/project/panopoly

Questions?

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