OpenSense Labs: 11 Drupal maintenance support plans Distributions You Should Know for Success in 2021

11 Drupal maintenance support plans Distributions You Should Know for Success in 2021
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Tue, 12/11/2020 – 15:55

If you are looking to build your website on Drupal maintenance support plans in 2021 but don’t know where to start from, you need to know more about the Distributions. 

Here’s a list of top Drupal maintenance support plans 8 distributions you could use in 2021. 

The Basics. What are Drupal maintenance support plans Distributions? 

Distributions are full copies of Drupal maintenance support plans that include core, in addition to themes, modules, libraries, and installation profiles. For a layman’s understanding distributions are a website (dummy) copy for an industry with an explicit requirement for that niche. 

“A Drupal maintenance support plans distribution packages a set of contributed and custom modules together with Drupal maintenance support plans core to optimize Drupal maintenance support plans for a specific use case or industry”

Accordingly, there are Distributions for Media and Publishing, Government,  E-commerce, Education, Travel among others. 

There are two types of Drupal maintenance support plans distributions:

Full-featured distributions: complete solutions for specialized use cases (as discussed above).
Other distributions as the starting points for developers and site builders.
Why Bother Yourself with Distributions?

Out-of-the-box Additional Features: Remember “…Distributions are a package of the core, modules, themes”? Well, this means zero time searching for the Drupal maintenance support plans modules and other required features, you don’t need to work extra to set up your website. You get all the required features according to your requirement in your distribution. 
 
Easy set up of the website: Since you don’t need to look for additional features, it saves your time to set up your website. Launching your website now means setting up the distribution and getting a preconfigured site in a single download!
 
Less Maintenance: Downloading a host of modules and features means more maintenance and more security. With distributions, you get the whole website ecosystem into one, maintenance is not an issue since everything will be updated in a single update. 
Drupal maintenance support plans Distributions for your Website

Drupal maintenance support plans Starter Kit

Varbase 

Varbase is an enhanced Drupal maintenance support plans distribution packed with adaptive functionalities and essential modules, that can speed up your development process, and provides you with standardized configurations, making your life easier.
The essence of Varbase lies within the basic concept of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). It is probably the best starter distribution because it can help relieve you from repeating all the modules, features, configurations that are included in a Drupal maintenance support plans project.

Panopoly Panopoly is another powerful base distribution. At its roots lies the power of Chaos Tools and Panels magic. Designed to be both a general foundation for site building and a base framework upon which one can build other distributions, Panopoly provides search, widgets, responsiveness at its core. 

Presto! – Drupal maintenance support plans 8 Starter Kit
Claiming to save the development time by up to 20%, Presto! is a Drupal maintenance support plans 8 Starter Kit with more than a few tricks up its sleeve!
With intelligent content editing functionality, configuration defaults, and optional eCommerce integration, Presto is ready to use right out-of-the-box. Other functionalities include – 

An Article content type with some pre-configured fields

A couple of pre-configured user roles: Administrator & Editor

The ability to share nodes on social media

Pathauto for automatical URL aliasing

A Basic Page content type with a Paragraphs-based body field

Some pre-configured Paragraph types:

Textbox

Image

Promo bar

Divider

Carousel

Block (allows the embedding of Drupal maintenance support plans block

Media and Publishing

Thunder 
The distribution for professional publishing, Thunder functionalities are publisher-centric. At its core, it has the Paragraphs module, media entity module, and various SEO features to keep it working. As a free and open-source technology, it is cost-effective, knocks down developmental efforts and isn’t time-consuming.
 

Easy to install, deploy and add new functionality, Thunder is SEO friendly, responsive, Google AMP friendly, and allowing editors to publish their content easily as instant articles on Facebook as well. 

LightningLightning enables the developers to create a great authoring experience. It delivers a powerful set of tools to your editorial team and site builders right out of the box and is best suited for the media and publishing websites. The distribution provides a lightweight framework, documentation and best practice examples for building working solutions in Drupal maintenance support plans.
Built using the top 4 modules to enhance the editing experience – Workflow, Media, Layout, and Preview – it has taken the advantage of D8 functionalities and is tightly coupled to make up the new standard for enterprise authoring. 

Government

aGovaGov is a Drupal maintenance support plans distribution built for government websites and was developed for the Australian Government. It incorporates the Digital Transformation Agency’s UI Kit, helping you adhere to the Digital Service Standard.

aGov is ideal for any federal, state or local government agency wanting to move their websites quickly and easily to Drupal maintenance support plans whilst retaining full control of their codebase and choice of hosting provider.

WCAG 2.0 Level AA compliance, independently audited by Media Access Australia

Editor Workflows (Workbench Moderation)

Responsive design 

Example content – to get you started quickly

Common content types: News, Events, Publications, Blogs

WYSIWYG editor with media library
 

deGov 
After aGov, Drupal maintenance support plans’s deGov is another Drupal maintenance support plans 8 distribution focussing on the needs of (German) governmental organisations. One can build all levels of government websites (federal, regional, local) to publish information. With the base of Acquia Lightning, it extends the valuable functions to meet the use cases for different scenarios.
 

It provides a service-oriented E-Government portal to close the gap between citizens and your administration with various citizen engagement portals to discuss. 
Following are the features of deGov distributions:

Open311 portals for civic issue tracking

Open data portals to publish and create communities around data

Intranet/Extranet for government employees

Community

OpenSocialOpenSocial is an online community and intranet solution for nonprofits and innovative companies. It is currently employed by customers like the United Nations, Greenpeace and hundreds of smaller organizations to connect with their employees, volunteers and other stakeholders.
It is an out-of-the-box solution to build online community platforms. Providing with features such as notifications, timeline, events, follow, groups it can help personalise your news feed with the people you want to connect with.

Learning Management System

Opigno LMS
A full-fledged Learning Management System based on Drupal maintenance support plans, Opigno is the quickest way to get started with the e-learning framework.

It allows to:

Manage training paths organized in courses and lessons

Assess students with quizzes

Award certificates

Facilitate interactions with live meetings, forums, and chats

SCORM (1.2 and 2004 v3) compliant, it integrates the innovative H5P technology, making possible to create rich interactive training contents.

OpenLMSOpenLMS is an interactive LMS to make learning a fun and easier process. It provides various kinds of the content type such as written content, video lectures, quiz, calendar, and documents to be used as course material for students/users.
Modules such as webform are part of its core. It also provides interactive content powered by H5P which can be added to a course.
Read about the top Drupal maintenance support plans e-learning modules.

Headless Architecture

ContentaContenta helps you make the headless transition smooth.  Contenta (and Drupal maintenance support plans in the backend) has the capacity to control behind-the-scenes systems for languages like Python, PHP, Java React, Vue and Ember. 
Powerful and complex, Contenta is API-First.
It optionally installs all the content types and dummy content necessary to build an application.  
OpenSense Labs has sound experience in building new pillars for organizations. We would love to hear your requirements, drop a mail at hello@opensenselabs.com.

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