Canvas Improvements and Practical Uses

Today we are talking about EvolveDigital, What it is, and how it started in Drupal with guest Maya Schaeffer. We'll also cover Drupal CMS 2.0 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/539

• Comparing Drupal and WordPress
• Evolve Digital Summit Insights
• Marketing and Drupal Integration
• Evolve Digital and CMS Comparisons
• Summit Structure and Networking
• Speaker Selection and Outreach
• Balancing Content and Community
• Lessons from Different Cities
• Future Plans and New Formats

• EvolveDigital
• Drupal CMS documentation
• Decoupling Content & Frontend Nika Karliuchenko, John Picozzi, Pete Navarra
• Drupal Canvas Webinar

Maya Schaeffer - evolvedigital.com mayalena

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Catherine Tsiboukas - mindcraftgroup.com bletch

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Do you want to start your next Drupal site using a variety of best practices, including Canvas for page layouts, or site templates for an opinionated architecture out of the box? Then the recently released Drupal CMS 2.0 could be just what you need.
• Module name/project name:
  • Drupal CMS
• Brief history
  • 2.0 release was created by phenaproxima less than a week ago, and requires Drupal 11.3
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation guide linked in the show notes
  • 145 issues on the development project, 24 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • No direct way to track, but drupal_cms_helper was added as a dependency late in the Drupal CMS 1.x cycle, so the fact that it has been installed 3,780 times likely indicates that Drupal CMS has been installed several thousand times at a minimum
• Module features and usage
  • The biggest change in Drupal CMS 2 is the addition of Canvas for creating and managing layouts. We talked about Drupal Canvas in depth back in episode #518 so I won't go into too much detail here, but having it set up for you as an out-of-the-box feature is a big benefit
  • Drupal CMS 1.0 included a carefully curated content architecture, including some optional recipes for additional capabilities. With version 2, the intent is for site templates to be the source of the content architecture. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more about site templates, including a marketplace where people can find them, in the coming and in particular with DrupalCon Chicago fast approaching
  • Drupal CMS 2.0 also ships with much more sophisticated AI capabilities. There's a dedicated Canvas AI that can be used to generate and populate entire layouts, as well as generating code components, based on a user's prompt. And listeners may remember the demo in the Vienna Driesnote of using the Context Control Center to automatically create drafts of content updates when marketing information changes
  • And of course, starting with Drupal core 11.3 means you'll get all the performance and other improvements in the latest version