Kenosha WI

Features! The awesome module which allows you to export Drupal configuration to code.

"The features module enables the capture and management of features in Drupal. A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case."

Features lets you export content types, vocabularies, fields, field instances and anything within the CTools Export API universe.

We'll be presenting on how to use Features to create pluggable modules for reuse on client sites, but also for multiple environment deployment.

Features: https://www.drupal.org/project/features

At the last meetup we decided it'd be great if everyone thought of a module that they discovered that solved a really specific solution. We're not talking about Views, Panels, Display Suite, or any of the big ones. Just anything that solved your problem and might be easily overlooked.

When getting started with Drupal, it can be difficult to decide which of the 26,000 modules on Drupal.org you should check out and which to ignore. But if there is one module you should learn how to use (and how to use it well), it's the Views module!

Views is (by far) the most popular Drupal module and is even going to be included in Drupal 8.

Out of the box, Drupal allows you to define complex content types with fields and create many peices of content based on them. Using Views allows you to build dynamic lists of this content, for example: a slider, staff listing, event calendar or photo gallery.

In this presentation Elliot Christenson will give an introduction to Views with a step-by-step walk through for new users, showing how to create some simple Views (like the examples mentioned above), and a quick overview of some more advanced features for veteran Views users.

(We'll also be chatting about our experinces at DrupalCon Austin, which Elliot and David were at in the first week of the month!)

Want to learn how to setup an online store without knowing code?

During this meetup we'll show how to sign up for Pantheon's platform and install Commerce Kickstart - without touching a single file!

Learn how to setup your store, add products, setup PayPal and more.

Have you tried Drupal Commerce before, hit a road block or have questions? After the initial demonstration there will be a Q&A session to answer as many Drupal Commerce questions as possible!

Introduction to Panopoly and Drupal distributions

When you first install Drupal, it's a blank slate - it doesn't really do anything yet. If you want a personal blog, company website, intranet portal or e-commerce store - you need to start installing modules and actually configuring your website into one of those things.

That's where Drupal distributions come in! A Drupal distribution is Drupal plus some modules, themes and configuration, so that when you first install it does something right out of the box.

Little late on it this time, but checkout Drupal 262's next user group meeting - we'll be breaking down Drupal to its basics and explaining how regions, blocks, nodes, and all that other lingo build into an awesome site.

Join us as we break down Drupal and dive into how Drupal works. Learn what regions, blocks, node, and taxonomies are, and how they interact together.

We'll be meeting again in one of the multi-purpose rooms inside the Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha building.

1330 52nd Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140