5 Top Drupal Innovations You Can't Live Without

Time: 
07/24/2015 - 14:00-07/24/2015 - 14:45
Room: 
Balcony B
Experience level: 
Beginner
Session Track: 

Site Building

Learn how to leverage the flexibility of Drupal to deliver experiences in nearly limitless ways. See how you are able to do this—often without code and relying on the ever-expanding universe of contributed modules.

Speaker(s): 
daniel

Now that Drupal 7 has reach full maturity and perhaps entering into it's Autumn years we're able to take full stock of Drupal 7 features that have taken off and a few that fell flat. This presentation will explore the most valuable innovations in Drupal 7 and offer examples illustrating why these features have become so valuable. We'll also take a look at how today's most valuable features will fair in the upcoming release of Drupal 8.

Drupal Innovations we'll be exploring

  • Entities
  • Displays
  • Media
  • Views
  • Rules

Session Objectives

  • Identify and demonstrate the most useful tools introduced in Drupal 7

  • Offer tips on how to utilize Drupal 7 Innovations to build great web sites

  • Show how these innovations will be affected by the pending Drupal 8 release