Talking Drupal #497 - Drupal Forge

Apr 14, 2025

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ADVICE

Drupal Forge Pricing Model

You can start using Drupal Forge for free to spin up Drupal CMS sites.
Pricing starts when you want to host a live site with a custom domain.

INSIGHT

Drupal Forge Supports Diverse Sites

Drupal Forge supports any kind of Drupal site including vanilla, distributions, and Backdrop.
Users can turn existing DevPanel sites into reusable templates on Drupal Forge.

INSIGHT

Drupal Forge Influences Site Templates

Site templates on Drupal Forge likely influenced the Drupal project site templates initiative.
Drupal Forge emphasizes firing users' imagination with fully formed demos for easy customization.

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Today we are talking about Drupal Forge, how it works, and why it's changing Drupal with guest Darren Oh. We'll also cover ECA VBO as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/497

Topics

Elevator pitch for Drupal forge
What is Drupal Forge built on
What is the pricing model
Does Drupal Forge only allow you to install Drupal CMS
Drupal Forge and templates, was there an influence on Site Templates
Why offer templates for Drupal Forge Camps
Is Drupal Forge open source
What is on the Roadmap
How can people get involved

Resources

Guests

Darren Oh - drupalforge.org Darren Oh

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Kathy Beck - kbeck303

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a powerful and flexible way to create views bulk operations without writing code? There's a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- ECA VBO
Brief history
- How old: created in May 2022 by mxh, a prolific maintainer in his own right, and an active member of the group that has made the ECA ecosystem so far-reaching
- Versions available: 1.1.1 and 2.1.1, the latter of which supports ^10.3 || ^11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Documentation: sort of. The README has step-by-step instructions, and the project page has links to both an example model and a tutorial video
Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 1 of which are bugs against the current branch
Usage stats:
- 320 sites
Module features and usage
- With the module installed, your site will have a number of Events available within ECA, specifically for defining models that can perform bulk actions on the selected items in a view. In my own experience the most useful event is VBO: Execute Views bulk operation (one by one)
- From there, you can define the logic of what needs to happen to the selected items. I've used it for fairly simple operations like changing content to a specific moderation state, but you could define complex logic that is conditional on field values, site configuration, or even global factors like the time of day
- With one or more models defined, you can now add a field to your view for ECA bulk operations and then select which eligible models you want available in that specific view
- It's worth adding that the ECA model can also include logic to define who should have access to perform a particular operation, which could be as simple as checking the role of the current user, but can be as complex as you need
- I came across ECA VBO during some recent work on the Drupal Event Platform, which is already available to try out on Drupal Forge, but there should be a more formal announcement on that front soon