drupal 8, tricks and tips learned from the first 6 months
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6 months intoDrupal 8
Iztok Smolic, AGILEDROP
Drupal 8 is production ready.
What we’re excited about
Views in core
Configuration management
True multilingual support
Fieldable entities everywhere
WYSIWYG (CKEditor) in core
Responsive back-end
What we’re not so excited about
Quick edit, aka Spark
Block system
Tricks & tips
Read warnings!Things tend to get deleted too easily!
Example: When removing a field from a content type, Drupal tries to clean up and will delete Views and other components using the field in question.
Content translations, translatable fields● Now you have to manually select each field to be translatable:
Modules we’ve used so far● Admin menu is dead, long live Admin toolbar (drop down enabled navigation)● Devel + Devel Kint - for debugging PHP and Twig● Pathauto - for generating friendly URLs● Metatags - for SEO metadata● Inline Entity Form - entity reference widget● Field Group - improving UX for site editors● Paragraphs - building rich landing pages
What we hope to see soon
Drupal Commerce for Drupal 8● Multi store architecture (multi-domain stores, multi-seller scenarios, fulfillment
centers, etc.)● Redesigned product architecture (simpler Add to Cart form generation, field
inheritance, faster product creation)● Price is now an object that knows how to apply a tax rate, discount, fee to itself● Rewritten tax handling to better support VAT and changing tax rates● Lighter API for payment gateways to allow maximum flexibility
Panels● Panels (https://www.drupal.org/project/panels) ● Page manager (https://www.drupal.org/project/page_manager)● Layout API (https://www.drupal.org/project/layout_plugin)
