Future-Proof Your Drupal 7 Site


BADCamp 2013

Dave Reid / @davereid

https://slid.es/davereid/2013-10-26

About Me

Senior Developer at Lullabot

Twitter: @davereid

IRC: davereid

Maintain amost 2% of contrib modules

Core subsystem maintainer

Father of two cats and one boy



Objectives



For your site builders
and architects to make
informed choices now


Ease pain of site users
when switching to Drupal 8

User Interface

Spark Distribution

https://drupal.org/project/spark


Navbar

https://drupal.org/project/navbar


Inline Editing

https://drupal.org/project/edit


Official WYSIWYG: CKEditor

https://drupal.org/project/ckeditor

Responsive Preview

https://drupal.org/project/responsive_preview

Not officially in D8: https://drupal.org/node/1741498

Responsive Bartik

https://drupal.org/project/responsive_bartik


HTML5

https://drupal.org/project/elements
https://drupal.org/project/html5_tools

VIEWS IN CORE!

https://drupal.org/project/views

Administration Views

https://drupal.org/project/admin_views


Views Bulk Operations (light)

https://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations


Views Responsive Grid

https://drupal.org/project/views_responsive_grid

Responsive Tables

https://drupal.org/project/responsive_tables

Breakpoints

https://drupal.org/project/breakpoints

Responsive Pictures

https://drupal.org/project/picture

Tours

https://drupal.org/project/joyride

Module page filtering

https://drupal.org/project/instantfilter



Field types

Entity reference

https://drupal.org/project/entityreference
NOT Node or User reference modules

Telephone

https://drupal.org/project/telephone
NOT phone module

Email (lite)

https://drupal.org/project/email

URL

https://drupal.org/project/url
NOT link module

Datetime (Date lite)

https://drupal.org/project/date

The Other Stuff

CMI

https://drupal.org/project/configuration???

Migrate is your friend

https://drupal.org/project/migrate

https://drupal.org/project/migrate_d2d


RESTful Web Services

https://drupal.org/project/restws
NOT services module

Translation

https://drupal.org/project/entity_translation
https://drupal.org/project/title

Things you should probably stop using

We don't want no scrubs

https://drupal.org/node/2116417

Thank you!
Questions?

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