In this presentation I demoed a way to use a combination of panels, panelizer, ipe, kalatheme bootstrap and some borrowed panopoly magic mixed with a little bit of custom code to acheive some nice content editor interfaces in a flexible, yet controlled, way.

1. A Recipe for Flexible Editing
Carson Black
carsonblack
@carsonblack
www.carsonblack.com
Thursday, May 22, 14

2. Goals
• Flexibility
• Freedom under a benevolent
dictator (developer)
• Structured Content
• Decoration
• Configuration in code
Thursday, May 22, 14

3. Demo
Thursday, May 22, 14

4. Prep and Pickup
• Prep
• Things that can be done in
advance
• Pickup
• What you do when it’s time
to put it together
Thursday, May 22, 14

5. Prep: Core vs. Panopoly Distro
• Core
• Plus modules
• Panopoly
• Most of what you need
• Plus maybe more than you
really want...
Thursday, May 22, 14

6. Prep: Panels
More flexible layout and content
placement options
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7. Panelizer
Default layout per bundle
Customize layout and
“decoration” per node page
No overridden Features
Allowed content
Thursday, May 22, 14

8. Panels IPE
In-place editing of page content
Custom layout selection
Thursday, May 22, 14

9. Panopoly Magic
Customizes IPE Experience
Previews
Customize Views in Panels
Editing field content in IPE
Thursday, May 22, 14

10. Panopoly Theme Responsive Panels Layouts
Thursday, May 22, 14

11. Prep: Kalatheme
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Bootstrap importer and
subtheme generator
• Panels instead of blocks
• Responsive
• Pane and region style plugins
• Responsive tools
• LESS / SASS
Thursday, May 22, 14

12. Demo
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13. • Views module and obvious dependencies
• Views Content Panes
• Views Autocomplete Filters
Prep: Views
Thursday, May 22, 14

14. Prep: Custom Module(s)
• Custom View Modes for a content type
• Custom node templates (tpl.php) per view mode
• Default view mode selected
• Form alterations (Kalacustomize -> Custom) for field labels
Thursday, May 22, 14

15. Prep: Custom Module - Architecture
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16. Prep: Custom Module - install
Basically, Set the weight of this module higher than
Panopoly Magic module
Thursday, May 22, 14

17. Prep: Custom Module - hook_entity_info_alter()
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18. Prep: Custom Module - hook_preprocess_node()
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19. Prep: Custom Module -
hook_theme_registry_alter()
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20. Prep: Custom Module - hook_form_alter()’s
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21. Prep: Custom Module - Node Templates
Thursday, May 22, 14

22. Pickup: Set Pane and Region Styles
Thursday, May 22, 14

23. Pickup: Create Content Pane Views
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24. Pickup: Create Content Pane Views
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25. Pickup: Create Content Pane Views
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26. Pickup: Create Content Pane Views
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27. Pickup: Create Content Pane Views
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28. Pickup: Panelizer Allowed Content Settings
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29. Pickup: Panelizer Default Panel Settings
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30. Pickup: Get Crazy! ;-)
Thursday, May 22, 14

31. Pickup: Panopoly’s “Magical” Widgets
Thursday, May 22, 14

32. Goals Achieved?
• Flexibility
• Freedom under a benevolent dictator (developer)
• Content Structure vs. Decoration
• Configuration in code (Features friendly)
Thursday, May 22, 14

33. Thank You!
Carson Black
carsonblack
@carsonblack
www.carsonblack.com
Thursday, May 22, 14

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