Update OpenLucius | Major facelift (and room for custom branding) Nov 23, 2020 - Last months we had more than 300 people testing the alpha-3 version of Lucius. We interviewed them and soon came to the conclusion that the base layouts needed big improvements. It was received as 'mhew..', we agreed. So we went to work and released ... Product
'Simple Like Button' released as a Drupal module | Why we used a custom AJAX form -and a custom entity. Jul 14, 2020 - During the development of Lucius we built quite a lot of features, that are embedded in the product (an open source Drupal distribution). But we figured some of these might come in handy for other Drupal site owners, outside of the OpenLucius Dr... Drupal
Update OpenLucius | Create your own social network with 'Posts' (and 3 other new features) Jul 01, 2020 - We collected user feedback from which new functions were built, we also improved existing features and design. We released them open source and you can use them now in the cloud, 4 highlights: 1. Social network posts You can now use Lucius as a... Product
Drupal how-to: redirect anonymous users to login page | A working example module (Drupal 9 compatible) Jun 26, 2020 - For our Drupal distribution we needed to redirect all anonymous users to the login page, as for now it's implemented as a closed platform for social collaboration. The Drupal 8 way didn't work anymore; we fixed it for Drupal 9 and publ... Drupal
Update OpenLucius | 3 new features and design update Jun 24, 2020 - We collected user feedback from which new functions were built, we also improved existing features and did a design update. The highlights: Group types The generic term 'group' turned out to be too abstract, we have now divided this ... Product
A custom Drupal AJAX form in a working example module (Also sends emails and validates email address) Jun 12, 2020 - While building this Drupal 9 site a few months ago we needed to handle the contact form. Normally we would use the Drupal Webform module, but that wasn't Drupal 9 ready enough at the time. So we decided to build the form ourself, AJAX based to make i... Drupal
Update OpenLucius | Custom section names, group header, group archive and more Jun 09, 2020 - Based on user feedback and own experience, we built new features and tuned existing ones. Here are the updates: 1. Choose your own section names You can now choose a custom name for each section, you can even provide different names in differe... Product
So, yeah.. we built OpenLucius 2.0 (Drupal 9) Jun 03, 2020 - In 2014 we were proud to release OpenLucius 1.0 on Drupal 7. Since that time a lot has happened in the (Drupal) world as well as with our agency. We had to drop support in 2018 unfortunately, but we always had the intention to build a new version;... Product
Grow strong, not fat May 20, 2020 - I recently listened to an NPR podcast, in which Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard speaks for a fascinating half hour about the highs and lows of his entrepreneurial life. In it he has some very strong one-liners, for example: after Patagonia recovered... Insights
20 cool Drupal modules for site builders & developers | May 2020 May 17, 2020 - I would like to stay up to date on all available open source / 'contrib' Drupal modules. 'There is a module for that', this applies to many use cases within Drupal; a deadly sin to build something that already exists, or is partially available. We ke... Drupal
