Talking Drupal #081 - Drupal 8 in 2016

Topics


Drupal 8 -  Full release 2016

Getting involved and getting started

Does this change anything in your mind?How to move forward
with Drupal 8

Tips on building a volunteer hour tracking website



Module of the Week 


Paragraphs - https://www.drupal.org/project/paragraphs


Paragraphs is the new way of content creation!


It allows you — Site Builders — to make things cleaner so that
you can give more editing power to your end-users.


Instead of putting all their content in one WYSIWYG body field
including images and videos, end-users can now choose on-the-fly
between pre-defined Paragraph Types independent from one another.
Paragraph Types can be anything you want from a simple text block
or image to a complex and configurable slideshow.


Paragraphs module comes with a new "paragraphs" field type that
works like Entity Reference's. Simply add a new paragraphs field
on any Content Type you want and choose which Paragraph Types
should be available to end-users. They can then add as many
Paragraph items as you allowed them to and reorder them at will.


Paragraphs module does not come with any default Paragraph Types
but since they are basic Drupal Entities you can have complete
control over what fields they should be composed of and what they
should look like through the typical Drupal Manage Fields and
Manage Display screens.


You can also add custom option fields and do conditional coding
in your CSS, JS and preprocess functions so that end-users can
have more control over the look and feel of each item. This is
way much cleaner and stable than adding inline CSS or classes
inside the body field's source.


Resources


https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0/get-involved

https://groups.drupal.org/node/447258



Hosts


Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan