Wedding Drupal Install Profile

Posted by Dave Reid on September 18, 2009 at 4:39pm

I've started a Wedding site install profile (http://drupal.org/project/wedding) and would like to get some input on what types of features should be included so that it can be usable "out of the box" but not overloaded or bloated.

Must-have features:

Photo gallery (CCK, ImageField, Views)
RSVP functionality (Webform)
Calendar (or list) of events (CCK, Date, Calendar, Views)
Guestbook/messages (CCK or Webform or core Contact)

Awesome but not must-have features:

Imported special tagged items/photos from social sites like Flickr, Twitter, etc. (FeedAPI)
Newsletter (SimpleNews)

"Meh" features:

Wedding date countdown block (Countdown)
Weather block for destination weddings or for guests traveling from far away (Weather)

We'd also want a good starting theme to be bundled with the install. What other features or things should this install profile accomplish?

Comments

Gift Registry

Posted by liberatr on September 18, 2009 at 6:11pm

How about a place to list "where we're registered"? This could provide links, store names, etc.

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Yeah that definitely sounds

Posted by Dave Reid on September 18, 2009 at 10:39pm

Yeah that definitely sounds good. How would that best be implemented? A new CCK type (that has an image, description and a link)? A custom module to display registry locations?

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KISS

Posted by Boris Mann on September 21, 2009 at 7:45am

No feature at all == a link that you fill out as part of setup that is a link to the online place where you're registered.
Simplest thing that will work == "registry item" CCK type with image, description, and link. Link is link to a place where you can buy a version of that particular thing.

Even "simplest thing" becomes complicated -- you need to build the whole "claim this item" functionality to allow people to say they've gotten it. And, ideally, make that work for "anonymous" users since getting Aunt Betty to sign in will be hard. There might be a "wishlist" module that might work for this, but the dynamics of saying "this particular item that costs this much" vs. "we'd like one of these general things" are a bit different.

Probably something I would aim for further down the list unless you have some particularly clever thoughts on how to do this right...

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Posted by seaneffel on September 24, 2009 at 9:15pm

Let's say you were going to set up a series of gift requests as product objects using Ubercart, you could leverage their new inventory control module to tick down the units of the specific products that are purchased. That means if you ask for four hand-painted driftwood tables then, as they are purchased and eventually exhausted, Ubercart would mark their availability as zero.

A trial run would mean doing something like Oxfam does each year. You list "products" for sale which aren't real items but rather costs that represent items - like $25 for a latrine in Kenya, etc.

Anonymous users can purchase with Ubercart, no problem.

I think the real challenge is listing the item you request in a way that people could buy it. If you had the real item in your inventory then you would likely not ask for it. ;P

If you could talk the Wedding Channel into listing their gift registries by RSS then you eat them with Feed API and get them on your site. That would hack into the WC's advertising revenue, though, so good luck.

You missed the point -- it's even simpler ;)

Posted by dww on September 27, 2009 at 8:02am

The suggestion was a list of "places where we've registered for gifts", not re-implementing the actual gift registries themselves.

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Posted by seaneffel on October 1, 2009 at 2:29pm

Having just gone through the registry experience, I can say that the division of the retail operations that handle gift registries are terrible. They would ship things 2 months late, they would fail to include invoices so you couldn't return things without a call to the gift buyer, and they would fail to indicate on the registry the names of the people who bought them. Seriously. I have told some people never to register with specific businesses as a result.

If someone built a model of gift registry that would interface directly with a normal retail website rather than a special website, then you might have more control and create more rich reports.

Just sayin'.

Gift registry

Posted by ErikWegner on April 17, 2011 at 3:39pm

Until it finally becomes a public drupal module, please try http://github.com/ErikWegner/Item-reservation-for-drupal to have a "Reserve this item" functionality in drupal. I wrote it for my own birthday wish list.

signup.module for event replies?

Posted by dww on September 27, 2009 at 8:05am

You should consider http://drupal.org/project/signup (and perhaps http://drupal.org/project/signup_status) for the event RSVP functionality... Some jerk maintains it, but it handles a lot of nice event management features out-of-the-box. ;)

Cheers,
-Derek

Hah! I don't like using

Posted by Dave Reid on December 18, 2009 at 4:49am

Hah! I don't like using modules run by jerks. ;)

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Gift list registry

Posted by Omertron on December 15, 2009 at 4:12pm

Some sort of gift list registry so the wedding couple can create a registry (Photos, links to web stores, price, etc.) and then guests can register and "buy" the gifts.

Probably just want them to be marked as "bought" so that they don't get multiple versions of the same present, rather than make any complicated affiliation/e-commerce site

I'll be building a drupal wedding site in next 6 months

Posted by adellefrank on January 2, 2011 at 2:20pm

I'm happy to share any progress I make on this, I'm just not sure how to "do" installation profiles.
At the moment, our example/competitor sites include:

You actually don`t need Installation Profile

Posted by websule on January 2, 2011 at 3:07pm

Hi Adelle,

Nice concept and nice business to be in. But achieving what you need, in drupal, won`t need you to create installation profiles. You can do the same using simple groups and subdomains. Group can have gallery for photos, videos and any other content types associated with it. You can have a directory, browse and various search n sortable options.

Let me know if you need any help with blueprint for doing same with drupal, would be happy to help.

All the best!

Best Regards,
dipps
Websule.com - Drupal Specialists.

Another competitor to look at.

Posted by pearcec on January 3, 2011 at 12:29pm

http://www.wedful.com/

They use features and AEGir to manage their setup.

--
Christian

Did you finish your wedding

Posted by BroScottcho on December 15, 2011 at 7:40pm

Did you finish your wedding site? I am very interested as I am looking to help people setup their own wedding sites and I am researching the best way to do this. Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, ect..

SPAM Links

Posted by TallDavid on September 17, 2015 at 4:32pm

Several of the comments above looked suspicious, so I checked to see if they were built with Drupal or simply spammers wanting "link juice." Unfortunately, several were spammers and have been reported.

Here's a handy site if you want to determine of a specific site is Built With Drupal: http://isthissitebuiltwithdrupal.com/

Thanks, Talldavid. I deleted

Posted by greggles on September 18, 2015 at 4:15pm

Thanks, Talldavid. I deleted those items, blocked the users, and deleted some other content from them.

In general the best place to report spam is https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/webmasters - that helps ensure that it is handled quickly and keeps comment discussion focused on the original topic :)

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