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.

Collaborating on larger Contrib projects

What is the best way for us to collaborate on larger Contrib projects?
 

  • Is GitHub adequate
  • Use the GitHub Discussions feature
  • Use a Project management system
  • Use the same system as the Devs for Core
  • Something else

Leaving a large contributed module to one or two developers has many pitfalls, so I would like to facilitate a discussion on how best to collaborate when larger projects become popular... one module that springs to mind is Ubercart with 124 active installs.
 

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

 

Solr, Lando, and Backdrop

I recently began trying to learn more about Solr search.  I found old instructions on getting Solr to work with Drupal 8 locally using Lando.  After getting that working I wanted to see if I could do the same thing with Backdrop.  It turns out that it isn't that different.  Come learn how to setup Solr search to begin experimenting and learning more.

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