Talking Drupal #481 - Drupal Marketing & Drupal CMS

Today we are talking about Drupal Marketing, how it applies to
Drupal CMS, and what a Drupal and Drupal CMS Marketing Future
look like with guest Suzanne Dergacheva. We’ll also cover Drupal
11.1 as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/481
Topics

Drupal marketing moves

New brand

Marketing people at the DA

Goal of marketing

How does this impact Drupal CMS

Drupal CMS marketing

How will you educate people about the differences between
core and CMS

Any challenges

How do you like the new homepage

Next steps to move the brand forward

Case studies

Why did you volunteer

If someone wants to get involved how can they

Resources

Brand Portal

Drupal.org homepage

https://new.drupal.org/home

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/3475832



Case study guidelines

Webinar with Suzanne and Rosie Gladden about Key Strategies
for Expanding Drupal’s Reach

Advent Calendar

Freelock.com - 24 days of Drupal automations

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you been wanting a version of Drupal with
improvements to the recipes system, the ability to write
hooks as classes, and an icon management API? The new Drupal
11.1 release has all of that and more.



Module name/project name:

Drupal 11.1



Brief history

How old: created on Dec 16 by catch of Tag1 and Third
& Grove



Module features and usage

We’ve talked a number times on this show about the
recipes system, particularly because it’s at the heart of
Drupal CMS. In Drupal 11.1 recipes can define whether or not
to use strict comparison for provided configuration, and
there are a ton of new config actions. These allow your
recipe to place blocks, take user input, enable layout
builder for content types, clone configuration entities and
more. It’s a huge leap forward, and I think you’ll quickly
see a number of recipes that require Drupal 11.1 or newer.

Hooks have long been a powerful Drupalism that allow for
deep customization of how your website functions. These hooks
can now be written as classes, thanks to the new Hook
attribute on methods. This will bring many of the
object-oriented benefits of modern Drupal to the hooks
system, and should also make it easier for developers new to
Drupal to understand the code to create these customizations.

A new Icon Management API allows themes and modules to
define icon packs, with unique identifiers for each included
icon.

Drupal 11.1 also includes PHP 8.4 support. I haven’t been
able to find any data on speed improvements compared to PHP
8.3, but there are interesting new features like property
hooks, asymmetric visibility, new functions for finding array
items, and more

There are plans to use Workspaces for content moderation,
so the UI for Workspaces is now in a separate module. For new
site builds if you want your editors to be able to use
Workspaces, you’ll need to remember to enable this new UI
module as well

New installs of Drupal 11.1 will also see improvements to
the initial experience. These include defaulting to
admin-created user accounts only, not adding the body field
by default when creating new content types, and more.

Drupal 11.1 also includes a new views entity reference
filter, opt-in render caching for forms, and improved browser
and CDN caching for Javascript and CSS, among a host of other
improvements.

A number of these improvements will also find their way
into the upcoming 10.4 release, ensuring, for example, that
recipes built to use the new config actions can be used with
Long-Term Support (LTS) versions of Drupal, that will be
supported until the stable release of Drupal 12 in mid- to
late-2026