Backdrop for Beginners - Layouts

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

Backdrop for Beginners - Views (dynamic lists of your content)

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

The Future of Paragraphs

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.

Module Showcase

Have you ported or created a module that you want to share? Perhaps you are excited about a module that you've recently discovered and think it deserves a bit of a celebration?

This event is open for anyone to share about a module.  I'll be sharing a few that I've done; hopefully others will too.

A hive of activity?

During a discussion on bee during the last Backdrop Live, there was discussion around the site alias functionality that drush has, which would enable bee to perform actions on remote installs of Backdrop.  Given that drush support for Backdrop is likely to end with the Drupal 7 End of Life I think that ensuring this functionality is available for bee going forward is becoming more and more important. I would like to explore with people who used the functionality

Contrib Lightning Talks

There  are over 900 contributed projects in the Backdrop CMS contrib space on Github, not all of which have official releases on BackdropCMS.org. 

Please, post a comment if you have a contrib project you would like to share. Either a project you maintain or just one that you love to use and want to share with others. 

Each person will have 5-10 minutes per project. 

This is very informal. You can demo a module on a live site, a demo site, or just describe the module. Anything goes. 

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