It's widely known that Drupal's content authoring experience has room for improvement, particularly in comparison to platforms like Wix and Wordpress. Over the years, there have been improvements by both core and contrib modules: CKEditor, paragraphs, layout builder, Gutenberg, and any of the combinations.

In this session, we will first go through the available solutions to date, from core layout builder, to contrib layout paragraphs, to custom DXP like Dropsolid Rocketship or Acquia Site Studio. We will then share our observation of our clients' needs, and explore the solution our team in Pixel Onion has been using for our recent projects, which leverages on core layout builder, and contributed modules like Gin theme, layout builder paragraphs, layout builder base and some custom glue code.

One client stated that the solution has reduced the time taken to create a page from 1–2 days to merely 30 minutes!

This session will present alternatives to site builders and developers who want to provide better authoring experience for their clients. Custom glue code is kept at minimal, but pointers are given for those who want to explore advanced tweaking.