This is a place for people working at newspapers running on - or planning to run on - Drupal to share ideas, problems and solutions.
Help us build resource pages like these:
The Open Source Newspaper
What can Drupal do for my newspaper?
Media sites using Drupal
Modules for Newspapers
Learning resources
Drupalcon, an event you shouldn't miss!
This is the event you shouldn't miss in de december if you are interested in Digital Experience Management, Drupal, content management and open source! With 119 (!) sessions, 4 workshops in 5 parallel sessions all for one ticket. Drupalcon, where the art of the possible comes to life. Network, learn and be inspired. More info and tickets can be found on: https://events.drupal.org/europe2020/ #drupalcon #drupal
Hope to see you there!
Michel van Velde
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This is the event you shouldn't miss in de december if you are interested in Digital Experience Management, Drupal, content management and open source! With 119 (!) sessions, 4 workshops in 5 parallel sessions all for one ticket. Drupalcon, where the art of the possible comes to life. Network, learn and be inspired. More info and tickets can be found on: https://events.drupal.org/europe2020/ #drupalcon #drupal
Hope to see you there!
Michel van Velde
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What modules are you using for Ads on Drupal 8?
I've been using simpleads for Drupal 7.
Prepping for the transition to Drupal 8, what are you all using?
Current advice for developing a newspaper or magazine site with Drupal
We are considering Drupal for a magazine/local news style website. I've been a long time lurker on Drupal, but only an infrequent user.
I have a few questions that hopefully people with some experience can advise us on:
1. Is Pressflow still worth considering, or do newer versions of Drupal provide most of these benefits out of the box?
2. Themes -in the last mention I found, Yelvington favours 'rolling your own' from a Bootstrap 3 base, but we don't have inhouse development. Are there any themes that provide a good base, from which we can develop over time?
Drupal & Magazine/Newspaper information?
Hi,
I have to create an onlime magazine.
I have seen that many olnline magazines / newspapers were built with Drupal.
I am new to Drupal (I have developped sites with Joomla and Wordpress, but none with Drupal yet). So I am gathering information.
As I see that posts in « Newspapers on Drupal » have been posted a while ago with older versions of Drupal, I am wondering:
1° if Drupal is still the best low cost solution to achieve a professional result
Read moreDrupalCon CEO dinner Vienna
CEO's Michel van Velde (One Shoe) and Janne Kalliola (Exove) proudly present the 6th (!) edition of the annual Drupal CEO Dinner at DrupalCon Vienna.
The Drupal CEO Dinner is a gathering of the leading minds of the Drupal industry and connects Drupal CEO’s and company leaders from all across Europe. This tradition started during DrupalCon Munich 2012, went out of control in Prague (2013) and has become one of the biggest social events during recent European DrupalCons.
Pre-registration
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Biggest Newspaper & Media cases?
In May 2017 we are hosting the European Drupal Business Days in Frankfurt and we are looking forward to high-end Drupal 8 case studies dealing with media websites and advertising.
We're happy to announce that Burda Media is going to share insights how they use Drupal and how other media companies can profit from it.
This is the first European Drupal Business Days since Drupal 8 came out, and we can’t wait to see the newest business cases and trends.
For more details go to www.drupalbusiness.org or directly to www.drupalbusiness.org/call-for-speakers to propose a session.
Read moreDrupal Mentored Code Sprint - 22 October, 2016
Dear all,
We are excited to announce #drupal Mentored sprints with VijayChandraMani. Vijay is an active Drupal contributor, one of the oldest members of the Chennai Drupal community. He currently works with Capgemini. Many of us are already familiar with his fascinating story “How Drupal Changed my life” featured in Dries Keynote at DrupalCon Dublin.
This is an opportunity for you to get some commits to #drupal! If you know the tools but still could use help picking issues and going through the process, the Mentored Core Sprint is for you.
The sprint session will take place in Chennai. We have limited seats and on first come first serve basis, Register now!
Attached is the link for registration…
Code Sprint Session - Link for Registration
Read moreThe Open Mic Podcast: New Format, New Modules and Drupal 8 Updates
This week Ash and Ben go over new modules and some stories from the week, Hope you enjoy!
Download the latest episode of The Open Mic now: http://theopenmic.libsyn.com/the-open-mic-new-format
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savannahnow.com relaunches (finally) on Drupal 7
One of the first newspaper-based sites based on Drupal, savannahnow.com has relaunched on Drupal 7 with a responsive design and tight integration with newsroom workflow and subscriber management systems.
This project features an unusually high degree of integration with third-party systems:
Read moreNew Drupal Podcast Episode: The Project Manager and The Tech Lead
Episode seven of The Open Mic is now available for download on iTunes, as hosts discuss their experiences with project management and leading tech teams on client projects.
Download here: http://www.opin.ca/en/article/open-mic-episode-7-project-manager-and-tec...
Read moreNew Drupal Podcast Episode: Organic Groups
The latest episode of The Open Mic podcast discussing Organic Groups is available for download here: http://www.opin.ca/en/article/open-mic-episode-6-organic-groups
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Drupal Theme for Newspaper
I need to switch my cannabis news site, www.occnewspaper.com, over to a new responsive theme. I am using TB Rave and don't like it. I have seen a few in Wordpress, but am unfamiliar with it. I have some Drupal expereience.
Read moreAn Ad Module That's Not an Ad Module
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/apple_just_did_something_that_has_journa...
I use the simple ads module and sell my own ads.
Local, smallish town news can't survive on 3rd party ads.
For a time I used the google chrome ad block so I could get rid of the annoying popups that lead to malware on weird channels that stream sports sites.
But I realized that was hiding the ads on my site, so I stopped.
Read moreWhat is a good starting point?
So I have been tasked with a new project. This is going to be an independent news site using Drupal 7. What are a couple of the best themes or templates that could help us get it up and running very quickly? I have been looking around at some themes that offer a news site look and feel. I'm whiling to pay for a good template in order to have a rapid turn around on getting it up and running. Of course over time I will be doing some modifications and updating.
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Nigeria Drupal Group Meet-up at Shoprite, Ikeja Lagos on June 28th.
Here's just 10 Great Reasons to attend this coming Drupal Nigeria Lagos user group
1. Networking and promotional opportunities
Being active in the local Drupal community is a good way to meet others, and supporting local Drupal events is a great way to foster the local community, as well as align your brand and expertise with the global Drupal project.
2. Employment opportunities.
Free Webinar by Megan Sanicki, COO, Drupal Association: Cracking the Community Code
Building communities is an artsy science that is a strategic initiative for organizations of all kinds from nonprofit to for-profit. In this webinar, we will remove the mystery of building thriving online communities. We will look at community building best practices from leading community managers such as Jono Bacon of Ubuntu, and will understand how to use these pro-tips to grow and nurture global communities through a case study on Drupal.
Why Should You Attend This?
o To learn how the Drupal community grows and is nurtured
o To learn about the community management best practices
[Free Webinar] Drupal 8: Frontend for Backenders
Drupal 8 will ship with a fancy new template engine (Twig) and a simpler theme layer. In this webinar, our speaker will show you some goodies from Twig and give you a walkthrough on how to get started with it.
He will also talk about the major problems that people were facing in working with Drupal 7 and what the community has done to make it better. This webinar will show - in both practical examples and on a broader scale - why Drupal 8 will make peace between backenders and frontenders.
Why Should You Attend This?
Read moreBiS -- Business in Savannah relaunches with d7, Bootstrap
We've relaunched our business news website, http://businessinsavannah.com/, on D7 with a Bootstrap-based theme built by Chris A. White. This is 100% off-the-shelf modules and the custom theme is derived from the https://www.drupal.org/project/bootstrap base theme. We kept coding to an absolute minimum. The CSS is all class-based -- what a relief!
We'll be using this framework for another site that will launch in a week or so.
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What would be the ideal News/Magazine architecture
What:
We are working on a few publishing projects by now and there seems no final good option out there to quickly get the site up and running. We are investigating what's best solution to build robust premium Magazine/News themes (by this I actually mean a complete Drupal website profile).
Goal:
We want to develop at least 5 different Drupal News and Magazine themes and offer them as basic off-the-shelf package and add customizations on top per bespoke business requirements.
Designs:
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