A few of my favorite things
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2 min readAug 19, 2019
At DrupalGovCon 2019, CivicActions engineer Dan Gurin shared his shortlist of contributed Drupal modules and themes for meeting the specialized needs of government programs. Dan loves helping government clients build sites that draw on Drupal’s unique capabilities to transform the way they deliver digital services.
In this session, Dan delves into his favorite combinations and configurations of Drupal projects that help with accessibility, analysis, compliance, design, mobile, open data, search, security, and usability. Follow along in the slide deck for links to Dan’s favorite Drupal extensions.
“The real magic of a Drupal installation is what we add to it.” — Dan
Highlights
- 1:20 — There are 43,333 modules to choose from, but don’t panic
- 2:15 — U.S. Web Design System, front end theme of choice
- 3:24 — Projects focused on the back end
- 5:00 — Testing different user roles using Masquerade
- 6:11 — Managing which fields display with Conditional Fields
- 7:35 — Tools for managing content during development
- 11:00 — Tools to facilitate content moderation
- 13:30 — Projects to help with different field types
- 16:43 — Using Group to help manage organizations
- 19:54 — Tools for improving migration projects
- 23:11 — Tools for building link functionality, including warning users when they’re leaving your site
- 25:18 — A Drupal platform for open data
- 26:20 — Modules to help implement web forms without inviting spam
- 28:49 — Projects to test your email systems and integrate with Amazon SES
- 30:00 — Common extensions for improving your search functionality
- 32:00 — Auditing your page for accessibility
- 33:25 — Projects to help with security and compliance
Resources
- Dan’s slide deck, with links to all his favorite Drupal extensions
- U.S. Web Design System
- DKAN Open Data Platform
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