Talking Drupal #464 - Drupal Content Production

Today we are talking about Producing content with Drupal, How
Drupal can help content producers, and ways it could be better
with guest Jerry Ta. We’ll also cover Stage File Proxy as our
module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/464
Topics

Brief overview of Urban Institute using Drupal

What are the day to day responsibilities of a content
producer

Layout Builder or Paragraphs

What is your opinion



You've been in content production for almost 2 decades, what
was your first website editing tool.

How long have you been using Drupal

What is your number one wish the Drupal community would solve

Drupalcon

What value do you look for for a content producer



What is the hardest part of using Drupal

Starshot reaction

Predictions for Drupal in 5 years for content producers

Resources

Modules for replacing files on Drupal - , Media Entity File
Replace, etc.

File Replace

Media Entity File Replace

File Field Replace



Content Sync

Tokens with CKEditor module

Shortcode

Common Spot

Scheduled transitions

Experience builder

https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C072JMEPUS1

https://www.drupal.org/project/experience_builder



Starshot

https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C072BF486FN

https://www.drupal.org/project/starshot



Guests

Jerry Ta - joshmiller
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Josh Miller - joshmiller
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to work on code or configuration
changes to your Drupal site in a non-production environment,
without having to copy over all the images and other content
files? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Stage File Proxy



Brief history

How old: created in Jan 2011 by netaustin, by recent
releases are by Stephen Mustgrave, who listeners will
probably recognize from the Needs Review initiative, among
his many other Drupal contributions

Versions available: 7.x-1.10, 3.0.0-alpha2, and 3.1.0,
the last of which works with Drupal 10.3 and 11



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Security coverage

Test coverage

Documentation - not a lot, but it has been the subject of
numerous blog posts over the years

Number of open issues: 15 open issues, 2 of which are
bugs against the current branch



Usage stats:

16,710 sites



Module features and usage

Once you have Stage File Proxy site up on your
non-production site, when the environment gets a request for
a content file it doesn’t have like an image, it will query
the production site to create a local copy

It also has a mode where those requests are served 301
redirects to their location on the production server, so no
files are ever copied

Once you have the module installed, you can set the
origin website URL using the admin UI, using a drush
variable-set command, or you can add a line to your
settings.php file.

Also, if you have simple HTTP authentication set up on
the site you want to pull from (for example using the Shield
module), you can add URL-encoded versions of the username and
password to the origin URL, and the module will still be able
to copy down the files.

This module was previously covered in this podcast way
back in episode #33, but I thought it was worth bring back
because it is so useful for working on site locally or across
non-production environments