They say in horticulture, the best growers keep the best notes.
Backdrop CMS is a super platform for building SIMPLE horticultural project blogs, grow diaries, inventories and product catalogs.
Stay tuned for our 2023 Project Launch!
We can achieve fast results by grafting slow growing cactus to aggressive root-stock. Quick and simple, everything in life should be so easy.
With Backdrop CMS there are less moving parts.
"Drupal won’t power your mom’s flower shop any more, but it’s still an excellent tool for mid to large enterprise CMS space."
-- a recent chat comment
This comment validates our decision to use Backdrop. We just want a simple Flower Shop!
At GlueBox.com, we love to build things. This is our showcase, plus a few notes on our build processes. Enjoy.
// Read an Apache.conf server variable (Domain Name) into a PHP variable.
// Match Domains in Backdrop's Settings.php
// Match Domains in "Affiliated Content" Entity Reference
// Match Domain to CSS Theme classes
// Match Domain to a Role
// content type 'domain_record'
Resource items to be stored within a collections.
inventory_item
- affiliated_domain
- provenance
- source_url
- acquisition_date
- custodian (profile reference)
- description
- media
- status
- content destruction date // Ephemeral Resource Cleanup
- tags
Roles:
Collection Owner
Collection Manager
Patron
Guest ( anonymous )
Looking at PHP versions for Pantheon versus Linode w/ stock Ubuntu.
Some things never change
# Website General Content (Information Pages)
# Reservations (Rooms, Resources, Time Slots)
# Calendars and Schedules (PDF Print Sheets, Weekly Emails)
# Directories of People / Contact Points
(Dis*) Advantages of Drupal
# Content Moderation using Role based permissions
# Workflows / Rules*
# User Profiles (Pronunciations, Subscriptions, Karma Points, Terms)
# Ease of use and customization*, rapid deployment*, documentation*
Multisite means one codebase, with multiple copies of everything else. Multiple databases, files stores, role matrices, views -- it's a lot of duplication. The pros and cons on this decision are thick. This is a major foundation choice, there's likely no turning back.
With multisite, all sites are managed separately.
User Provisioning :
On-the-fly versus pre-provisioning?
Notes on the Core files that need to be modified to create a custom Visibility Condition for blocks and menus.
TODO - Move this to a custom module!
Backdrop has some great documentation on menus.
See/insert: Example Page Module
The Domain Access modules help to make Drupal 10 an attractive option over Backdrop CMS. Backdrop does not have ports of the various Domain modules. Domain Access is especially useful for building affiliated sites that share content, but where users need access only on their "home" sites. The The Domain Theme Switch module for Drupal 9 helps to deliver custom branding for sub-domains.
Before getting too deep into any project, it's probably best to ensure that you have tested backups.
This is our Linux shell script used to backup our most important files. It's nice to pack WWW site files, config files and SQL databases into one compressed file. Backups can be built using many methods, the point is, make sure you have and test them.
Backup Scripts Here' a basic toolkit for system backup and recovery.
Resource Conflict is a great Drupal 7 only module that is useful for building reservation systems. As of 12/22, this module is now available as a contributed module for BackDrop CMS!
Backdrop CMS now has over 1,000 contributed modules! With the final pieces in place, we are porting our Drupal 7 Room Reservation system to Backdrop CMS. To help others build ambitious sites, we will document our process here.