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.

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.

Component-based theming in Backdrop

I've previously ported Gin to provide a modern admin theme to Backdrop -- and have been working behind the scenes to provide a new base theme for front end development, which I'm aiming to unveil at Backdrop Live. I'd like to get feedback and demonstrate:

  • how it makes component-based theming simpler in Backdrop
  • use of CSS custom properties
  • how to sub-theme it simply

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:

Backdrop For Beginners

An opportunity to ask beginner questions about Backdrop CMS. We'll have a demo site ready to show how to do things and answer your questions LIVE. A perfect place to ask beginner questions about things like:

* Content Types and Fields
* Getting Started with Views
* The Backdrop CMS Layout System

A dragon's eye view of finding content in Backdrop

Out of the box, Backdrop CMS has Views that can have exposed filters and Search.

However, there are modules that can extend the capability of Views and Search including integration with third party solutions including AI.  The purpose of this session is to give a high level overview of the options with very brief demos.  The idea being if there is demand to dig deeper, these sessions can be added later in the unconference.

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