Who is messing around with Drupal 8?

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Posted by lwanga.matovu on November 11, 2016 at 8:35am

Hey guys,

Been long since I used Drupal.

I was wondering if there is anyone who has built anything running on Drupal 8.

I have a small one pager site that I though would be interesting to test Drupal 8 on.

Any hints or tips? Anyone?

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Check this out a simple

Posted by thomas kaisuka on November 11, 2016 at 8:58am

Check this out a simple nursery website i just built. http://goshenpreschool.com

not a bad site, I would do a

Posted by cavinm on November 11, 2016 at 12:56pm

not a bad site, I would do a few things differently though

a) make the width boxed, not full,
b) application form would change it to a web form, though when u click apply, it displays an image with the form below, would do it reverse show the form above the image

the site is fair, and easy on the eye

Nice one, icehunk. What are

Posted by lwanga.matovu on November 11, 2016 at 10:09am

Nice one, icehunk.

What are your top Drupal 8 modules? Are they stable?

For now am concentrating on

Posted by thomas kaisuka on November 11, 2016 at 12:35pm

For now am concentrating on commerce 2.x modules for an upcoming project.

Top modules for now; Rules, Workflow, Views, Blazy, Flexslider, Smart Trim. Slick, Layout plugin, composer manager, calendar. All are stable.

Just take care of the meta tag beta-10. Server suicide incase you use Composer and Drush for all operations.

Calendar is safely used via views templates on installing, not stable out of the box.

Its too early for me, to

Posted by cavinm on November 11, 2016 at 1:05pm

Its too early for me, to embark on a drupal 8 site for a complex project, I got burnt when drupal 7 had just come out in 2011, site used to crash more frequently than i can remember, views was a nightmare.

Funny thing, I am planning to do a drupal 8 site for a Drugs & Medical Equipment facility that I am establishing, only problem is that I cant come across a very good theme for drupal 8. I did find a very nice theme a few months back, but when I need it, now I can't find the darn thing.

But yeah, I will still do it on drupal 8, will share the link when done.

Can't wait to see it. Have

Posted by thomas kaisuka on November 11, 2016 at 1:23pm

Can't wait to see it.
Have you tried playing with rules to notify on purchases in commerce 2.x. Its too messy with rules. Seems not to have an out of the box messaging system

Anything fairly complex, I

Posted by cavinm on November 11, 2016 at 1:37pm

Anything fairly complex, I will not do drupal 8, my experience with drupal 7 when it had just rolled out, still sends chills down my spine.

I did a site that had a lot of messaging, organic groups, and the whole shibang, url is understandrisk.org

to make matters worse the original site was on Ning, and I had to migrate all the content with associated users, plus threaded comments, real nightmare

understandrisk.org

Posted by lwanga.matovu on November 14, 2016 at 9:29am

@cavinm, I just checked out understandrisk.org. Good job but why did you switch from Drupal to Wordpress?

I didn't switch to wordpress,

Posted by cavinm on November 18, 2016 at 5:46am

I didn't switch to wordpress, that website was in Ning, and I migrated it to Drupal 7, way back in 2012, I have since moved on, and am not the current maintainer

Wow, cavinm .. that is a

Posted by lwanga.matovu on November 11, 2016 at 5:24pm

Wow, cavinm .. that is a scary story. Something like that happened to me too but it was on a much simpler hotel website on Drupal 7.

icehunk, that's an interesting module collection. From a Drupal 7 background, I would say I am only familiar with only a quarter of the modules on your list.

I am going to take Drupal 8 for a spin over the weekend. I will also share my output here when I am done.

P.S. This should make a good discussion for a Drupal meetup. Subject: Drupal 8 and your top modules.

I have decided to do the

Posted by cavinm on November 11, 2016 at 5:42pm

I have decided to do the website on drupal 8, against better judgement, problem is am having hard time finding a good theme, and I don't buy themes, most themes after u buy them, u find they r crap

I agree

Posted by ElitPeter on November 12, 2016 at 7:33am

Most themes are really crap, specially those you buy and you find real html cod in some parts, instead of a user friendly interface for the client.

Any updates?

Posted by lwanga.matovu on February 2, 2017 at 9:49am

Hey guys,

Any updates about anyone doing anything on Drupal 8?

I just decided to do two projects on Drupal 8 and wanted to know if everyone is still using the same contrib modules they started out with.

Or any new tips or stuff?

Wish we could do a meet-up on advanced Drupal 8 and have a discussion around this.

Anyone interested?

Lets linkup anytime

Posted by thomas kaisuka on May 5, 2017 at 1:19pm

Just hit me up on fb.me/ticehunk i got lots to share. We cab do a meetup too

Sure!

Posted by lwanga.matovu on May 5, 2017 at 2:03pm

Sure! Next time I am in UG, I will holla!

My Drupal 8 sojourn is still

Posted by cavinm on May 7, 2017 at 11:37am

My Drupal 8 sojourn is still crap, feeds has no csv import, am hacking
away should have a solution in next couple of days , am just hoping big pipe is worth the hype , otherwise would have dumped Drupal 8, how I wish I had a cookie and cutter project like my friends (nameless)

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