Talking Drupal #442 - Mercury Editor

Today we are talking about Mercury Editor, What it does, and how
it could change your editorial life with guest Justin Toupin.
We’ll also cover Webform Protected Downloads as our module of the
week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/442
Topics

What is Mercury Editor

What is powering Mercury Editor

Do you see any risk building on top of Paragraphs

Does Mercury Editor cost anything

Can companies hire Aten to add features

What are some key features

What makes Mercury Editor unique

How stable is the content

What happens if Paragraphs stops being supported

How can the community help

Resources

Mercury Editor

Layout Paragraphs Episode

Layout Paragraphs

Paragraphs Library

Sub-module of Paragraphs



Style options

Layout Paragraphs restrictions

Guests

Justin Toupin - atendesigngroup.com justin2pin
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to have downloadable content on your
website, only available to visitors who have filled out a
webform? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Webform Protected Downloads



Brief history

How old: created in Sep 2010 by berliner, but the most
recent releases are by james.williams of Computer Minds

Versions available: 7.x-1.1 and 8.x-1.0-alpha2 versions
available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained, the latest release was a week ago

Security coverage

Introductory blog linked on the project page

Number of open issues: 18 open issues, none of which are
bugs against the current branch



Usage stats:

804 sites



Module features and usage

Having thought leadership content like white papers or
reports gated behind a lead capture form is a common pattern
for websites, and this module is designed to make that easy
to set up

You use the module by adding a handler to your webform,
similar to triggering an email send

In the configuration for your webform protected download
handler you have options for how much verification you want
for the download link, whether or not the link should expire
after a period of time, and so on, in addition to uploading
one or more files that can be downloaded by people who submit
the webform

The module provides tokens for the download URLs, so you
can easily include them in a submission confirmation message
or email