Bee - open discussion

Do you already use Bee and have questions?

Are you curious about Bee and how it can help you manage your Backdrop sites?

An open discussion to find out more about Bee

What do you know about Bee and what would you like to know? Share in the comments below to help inform the discussion.

Bee settings

Bee is the command line tool for Backdrop.

One relatively recent request that I have been thinking a lot about recently is having the ability to define settings for Bee and I have been thinking about what that might look like. I will share my thoughts so far and hopefully get ideas for what regular users of bee would find useful.

Dashboards for Editors

One of our community members shared an article (link below) about Dashboards and using them to help give editors actionable, real time (mostly) insights on their site content.

Backdrop has quite a flexible Dashboard system but there is a module to provide advanced options (link below).

This is an opportunity to explore what people in the community are doing with dashboards, and what modules or Views can help.

Self-Hosted, Headless, and Hyper-Automated: The Backyard DevOps Stack for Backdrop Applications (Part 2)

In Part 1, we talked about using Backdrop CMS to run your entire business, from job tracking to stadium screens. Now, let’s get our hands dirty and talk infrastructure. If your business apps are critical, you need speed, reliability, and full control over your data.

We're trading expensive cloud bills and vendor lock-in for a lean, powerful, self-hosted infrastructure stack that keeps you in the driver's seat.

This is a deep dive into what DevOps need to develop, deploy, and automate your mission-critical Backdrop applications:

Payment options in Backdrop CMS

Even those who don't run a full-fledged online shop sometimes need the option for website visitors to make payments, such as donations, costs for informational materials, or event registration fees.

What are good payment options in Backdrop? Which payment methods are recommended, can they easily be implemented in Backdrop, and how? For example: How can Paypal or Stripe be integrated with various modules like Webform, Registration, Ubercart, or Basic Cart?

Using Composer

I have a composer file in OpenAI and S3 File System.  I started using the Composer Manager module for managing dependencies although both of these modules ship with a vendor directory so users don't need to use composer.  I hope the discussion gives direction to what we should and shouldn't do with managing dependencies in Backdrop.

Different approaches for ALT text on images

Backdrop contains several different methods for how to put ALT text on your images. None are perfect, and there is room for improvement. In this discussion I would like to cover:

  • How to store ALT text with Image fields (see video)
  • How to store ALT text with Image (File) entities (see video)
  • We can improve this! How do we want core to handle this, in the future? 

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