Breakout Room 1

This is an opportunity for folks in the community to share their local development workflow. Each interested participant will be given 5-10 minutes to show/share the tools and processes they use for local development. 

So far, the following folks have expressed an interest in participating:

• Tim Erickson - Lando 
• Martin Price - Lando 
• Joseph Flatt - Custom

Post a comment here if you would be willing to share a little bit about the tools you use for local devevelopment.

This hour is set aside for social time and community building. We are inviting members of the community to spend up to 5 minutes sharing a skill, talent, or hobby that is not directly related to Backdrop CMS. 

Let's have a discussion about SEO.  I've tried to make use of my librarian training in the past to game search results.  I'll offer some of my experiences with search console, analytics and data studio.  All Google products.

When I worked for the library we had a language learning database that we called Free Rosetta Stone but people couldn't find it.  So I went to work on the node for it. 

WordPress powers over 40% of websites on the internet. It offers a user-friendly interface, a vast library of plugins and themes, and a large community of developers and users who contribute to its ongoing development and support. There are over 455 million active installations of WordPress software, compared to...fewer Backdrop installations. 

Over the last few months I decided to start building some of the decoupled blocks that I've been hearing about at Drupal events.  After getting the Drupal version working I wondered about how I would put the same block into a Backdrop site.  So I changed the module to be a Backdrop module instead of a Drupal module.

After that project I had a Backdrop site that had information I wanted to share inside a Drupal site.  I reversed the process, making a decoupled Backdrop block first and then changing the module to be a Drupal module.

In short, config recipes are simple modules that add functionality to your site mostly by adding some prepared configuration. They do not add new features that are not already available through Backdrop Core or existing contrib modules. 

Available config recipes at this time:

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:

• How layouts work
  • Visibility conditions
• Blocks
  • Custom blocks
• Flexible layout templates
• Field blocks
• Tips for managing your header and footer across many layouts
  • Mini Layouts
  • Copy Blocks module

The views module is a powerful tool that allows site administrators to create complicated and dynamic displays of their content without writing any code or knowledge of database queries. 

• Create a basic view
• Filter your data with views
• Sort your data with views
• Rewriting your data in views
• What happens if there is no data in your view (no results)
• Contextual Filters
• Relationships
• Views header and footer
• View pagers

Join this conversation about the future of Paragraphs for Backdrop. This session will include a short demo of the current state of functionality in the Paragraphs module, as well as a sneak-peak at some functionality that is in development but hasn't been shared publicly yet. Following that, a time of conversation will help provide questions, input, feedback and hopes about what is to come.