Take Full Control of Your Site Layout

with Display Suite for Drupal 7

Presented by swentel and jyve

Design, UX and Theming

Introduction✤ @swentel (http://drupal.org/user/107403) and @janyves (

http://drupal.org/user/591438)

✤ Maintainers of field_group, sweaver, imagecrop etc ..

✤ http://dsd7.customsource.be/ ­ demo site for this presentation

Krimson krew members

Outline✤ Philosophy

✤ The old way & the cool way

✤ Extras

✤ Advanced use case

✤ Search

✤ Panels

✤ Api, performance 

✤ Future & Questions

✤ Lot's of demos!

Philosophy of Display Suite✤ Manage your site layout from one central place

✤ Bridge the gap between themers and developers

✤ Make template files unnecessary

✤ Focus on ease of use, portability and manageability

✤ No PHP code – reduce danger of exploits

The old-school way✤ Mix of template files and Field UI.

✤ Disadvantages:

✤ Template files not maintainable and not themer­friendly

✤ Field UI is limited: 

✤ No UI to add extra fields (eg. Node title, Node Author)

✤ No UI to add extra view modes

✤ Inconsistent: search result view mode not reflected in output

✤ No way to nest containers or use predefined templates

The cool way✤ Extending the Field UI

✤ Create new View Modes

✤ Use predefined layouts

✤ Add custom fields

✤ Extending Views item lists

✤ Works on any entity!

✤ Consistent HTML output

Extras module✤ Field templates (Field styles and the death of Drupal Divitis)

✤ Regions to block

✤ Contextual links

✤ Page title options

✤ Switching View Modes

✤ Views Displays – templates and fields

✤ There's more, just try it out

Advanced use cases✤ Animated slide show with multiple content types.

✤ Proposals?

A beautiful search✤ Override search result pages for Drupal core and Apache Solr

✤ Override user search result page

DS and Panels: a love story✤ DS is not the 'Anti­panels' @merlinofchaos

✤ Panels layout editor on any View Mode

✤ Ability to switch to Field UI as well

Leveraging the DS API✤ Creating custom fields

✤ Creating block fields

✤ Creating dynamic fields

✤ Creating custom layouts:

✤ hook_ds_layout_info()

✤ Create ds_layouts folder in your theme

✤ drush ds­build “My layout” ­­regions=”Left, Right”

✤ Exporting settings to code

Performance✤ The number one question

✤ http://drupal.org/project/entitycache

✤ Rewritten from the ground up for the D7 version

The Future✤ http://groups.drupal.org/display­suite

✤ More features into Field API

✤ Display API for drupal 8

Resources✤ http://drupal.org/project/ds

✤ http://bit.ly/ds­d7

✤ http://drupal.org/node/644662

✤ http://realize.be/topics/display­suite

✤ http://www.jyvesgarden.com/category/blog­tags/display­suite

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