Issue 290 - May, 18th 2017
News
Want to Host DrupalCon North America in Your City? We Have the RFP for You.
The Drupal Association is currently looking for locations for the 2019 and 2020 DrupalCon in North America. Be sure and check this out if you want DrupalCon to come to your city.
Drupal Association April 26, 2017 Board Meeting Update
DrupalCon News: Get Ready for DrupalCon Nashville
Adopt Airbnb Javascript Style Guide V13 as New Baseline Javascript Coding Standards for Drupal 8 Core and Contrib
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Leveraging Drupal 8 Distributions: Collaborating to Build on Top of Drupal Core
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Articles
How to Improve Drupal 8 Website Performance
Ben Finklea shares tips and the benefits of improving your Drupal 8 site's performance on SEO as well as customer satisfaction
How to Make Sure Your Content Editors Love Drupal
Think Beyond with Acquia Labs
Dries Buytaert shares interesting projects like the Alexa integration on the Georgia.gov Drupal site.
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Guardr for Drupal 8: Meeting Enterprise Security Requirements
What Are Experimental Modules in Drupal?
Confused about the experimental modules in Drupal 8? Steve Burge sheds some light on the subject.
Tutorials
Getting Started with Drupal Commerce 2.x - Part 2
In this post we learn how to create products for our new Commerce store.
Optimising Content Previews for Drupal 8 Using Opengraph
Programmatically Install Drupal 8 Module
Different Ways to Successfully Display Sponsor Logos on Your Drupal Site (Part 1)
React and Drupal 8 with JSON API 1/3
"The goal of this series of posts is to achieve quickly a simple museum Audioguide web app based on a React isomorphic boilerplate with a Drupal 8 backend that uses the latest standards."
Revert Configuration from File Based to Database Based
Change from file based configuration management to the default database method by following these steps.
Set Required and Optional Address Inputs for Address Field in Drupal 8
A nice little exercise in Drupal 8 development.
Step by Step Guide to Creating an Admin Form in Drupal 8
In this post you will learn how to make your own admin form in a custom Drupal 8 module, a very common task for custom Drupal configuration.
Projects
Welcome to Cog: A New Drupal 8 Base Theme
Releases
Cas 8.x-1.0-Rc1
fieldable_path 8.x-1.0-Rc3
Honeypot 8.x-1.25
Media 7.x-2.2
migrate_plus 8.x-3.0-Rc1
Panopoly 7.x-1.45
search_api 8.x-1.1
Podcasts
Talking Drupal #145 - What’s in the Logs
Jobs
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