Creating an Install Profile for Your Organization
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Setting up a single Drupal site is as easy as pie. But creating dozens or hundreds of similar websites is more like running a pie factory. In this session, we’ll talk about the challenges you run into creating an install profile for your organization, and some different approaches to running multiple, similar Drupal sites.
We’ll use a university website as an example, but the session should be applicable to all types of large organizations. The session will cover:
- What do you put in and what do you leave out? Deciding on reasonable defaults.
- Using a deployment script vs. an install profile
- Using Features: pros and cons
- Theming, sub-theming, and theme settings across sites.
- Common header and footer
- Install settings: letting the user pick and choose
- User experience challenges
- How will we do this in Drupal 8?