An introduction to Backdrop CMS and the community that builds it
Welcome to Backdrop LIVE. We ask (but don't require) that everyone introduce themselves and tell us a little about their experience with or interest in Backdrop CMS.
I would like to facilitate discussion about hosting Backdrop sites.
Some questions we will be discussing are:
Join us for a lively discussion on what should (or should not) be included in Backdrop 2.x.
The lifespan of Backdrop 1.x has been extended several times as the lifespan of Drupal 7 has been extended. Initially, our goal was for Backdrop 2.x to be released at least 2 years after the end of Drupal 7 support. Our hope was to give Drupal 7 site owners they time they need to both move to Backdrop, and prepare for the first Backdrop major version upgrade.
CKEditor 4 is reaching its end of support November 2023. The Backdrop community has been working towards transitioning to CKEditor 5. Come see the current state of the new module, how to test it, and what work remains to be done. We expect this module will be included in Backdrop 1.27.0.
Demo module can be used for other purposes than its name might suggest. We will talk on how it can help you for testing core or contrib modules.
The layout system in Backdrop CMS is a powerful system for building custom pages. In this session, we'll walk through the process of creating custom layouts.
Some topics we will include:
This past May, I sent an invitation to every organization and individual who had identified themselves on the backdrop Service Providers page that read like this:
Are you looking for more business? Then read on!
Since you are listed as a Backdrop service provider, we would like to extend an invitation to you to participate in a new program that will refer to you owners of Drupal 7 websites who are interested in moving their sites to Backdrop CMS.
I plan to show examples of some useful hooks and preprocess functions that allow developers to interact with, extend or modify Backdrop programmatically, through small custom modules or within the theme's template.php, with minimal knowledge of PHP. Some of these include:
