Martin Anderson-Clutz
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drupal at Acquia
Martin started his Drupal journey in 2005, with version 4.6. Since then, he has demonstrated his passion for the community in his frequent participation at Drupal user groups, local Drupalcamps, and Drupalcons, often as a speaker. He appears on the Talking Drupal podcast as a guest and host and most recently as host of the "Module of the Week" segment, and has blogs published on acquia.com, mandclu.com, and a handful of other sites. In his current role as a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Drupal at Acquia, he is able to evangelize Drupal to a wide variety or organizations, from local nonprofits to multinational corporations. He also maintains a number of contrib modules, including Smart Date, Search Overrides, and a number of others.
Have you ever looked at the growing ecosystem of Drupal Recipes and Site Templates and wondered, "How hard is it to build and publish one of these myself?" The answer is: you can absolutely do it, and this session will show you how.
In this presentation, I’ll share my personal journey of building my very first Drupal site template. I will walk you through how I took the Event Platform Starter Recipe and transformed it into the fully realized "Summit" site template. I’ll pull back the curtain on the real-world challenges, the "aha!" moments, and the step-by-step workflow required to go from a local concept to a published solution.
We will demystify the technical work required—from configuration and packaging to testing—and break down the process of getting your template successfully listed in the marketplace. Whether you want to streamline your agency's workflow or contribute back to the Drupal community, you'll leave this session with the confidence and knowledge to build your own site template.
Managing dates and times is often complex: recurring events, timezones, daylight savings times, regional formatting conventions, and more. Add in additional presentation requirements like add-to-calendar links, registration links, and related content (like agendas, that change for each date instance) and the complexity can seem bewildering.
Fortunately Drupal offers a rich toolset for solving these challenges. In this session we'll explore the solutions, not only showing how they work, but also detailing the modules and the configuration needed.
One of the key elements of the Starshot Initiative is the rapidly evolving system for Recipes. Designed to accelerate site-building, recipes will help people new to Drupal to solve for common needs, and for users of all skill levels to quickly build out content architectures using best practices.
This talk will discuss the elements that make up a recipe, how to use recipes, and what new capabilities are still in development. We'll also do a deep dive into the Events recipe and its available add-ons, allowing you meet even complex requirements quickly and without custom code.