Drush makefile

Drush makefile

This draft file sketches out how we might build a drush makefile to setup all the basic parts of all our Drupal projects:

Base installation

• Grab the most up-to-date version of Drupal
• Set up a database with strong passwords
• Is it possible to automate getting this initial build into Git and then onto Pantheon using the terminal?

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Site configuration

• Apply standard settings and confirmations
• Apply fixes and patches to known issues
• backup settings
• & run an initial backup
• security
• run a cron job

Install modules

Add vital base modules

Admin

• contextual administration

• adminimal_admin_menu

• admin

• OR admin_menu

• module_filter

• views

• rules

• token

• google_analytics

• fast permissions administration)

• eu_cookie_compliance

• custom contextual links - ccl - lets you add your own links to the contextual links on blocks and other elements

• nodeblock - specify content types as blocks, allowing content managers to edit block content without access to block admin page

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Admin theme

• admin_views

• adminimal_admin_menu

• adminimal_theme

• Apply fixes to base modules

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Users & User management

All configuration relating to users and profiles

• Configure a base set of user types:
  • Authenticated user
  • Author
  • Editor / Community Manager
  • Administrator (as opposed to User-1)
• Create a sets of 5 users of each user type
• Upload a set of user profile images and add them to the user profiles

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Content authoring

• linkchecker

• linkit

• Paste Format

• Paragraphs

• TODO: Add @Mention module and Markdown authoring module

Images and media

• [Insert](
• Image Cropping tool
• picture
• image_resize_filter

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Content provisioning

It's tough to style and construct a site with no content in it so we should aim to get real content into the site as early as possible

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Developer tools

• devel
• Add standard libraries
• habitat
• environment_indicator

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Theming tools & front end code tools

• devel_themer
• fences
• breakpoints
• responsive_menus
• block class - add a class to any block

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Front end and UI enhancements

• Chosen - jQuery plugin to improve elements

• Download base theme (Foundation)

• Add libraries and themer tools

• Configure base theme settings and set new theme as default

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Information architecture (Paths, Breadcrumbs, Menus & Hierarchy)

• menu_position
• pathologic - cleans up links entered into wysiwyg
• menu_trail_by_path - sets breadcrumb by path of page (not needed for D8)

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Mail and notifications

• mailcomment - allow users to reply to comments via email (a la Basecamp)