Migrate to Drupal 8
The first meeting of the Drupal User Group Bodensee (Lake Constance) in 2017 will be about migration to Drupal 8.
Drupal
The enterprise OpenSource content management system which is available for free at https://www.drupal.org where you can find all the details and also references.
has a very active community with tens of thousands of developers all around the world and they also have a huge focus on standard compliance and on security.
Avoid self-definition in taxonomy term description when using the Onomasticon module
The Drupal 8 module Onomasticon automatically displays the definition of taxonomy terms everywhere a term is used. However, you may want to avoid self-definition on the term's own page as its description is already visible without it.
CKEditor Abbreviation
module for adding and editing abbreviations in Wysiwyg CKEditor.
User Hash
The User hash module allows you to create an individual hash for each user. Use it as a light-weight user identification where you do not want to use the
login credentials. E.g. as an individual API Key for reading insensitive content.
Add a link to call by skype in Drupal 8
Websites can use protocol handlers to provide a convenient way for users to open default applications directly from a web page. In Drupal you can add such handlers to the list of allowed protocols, e.g. in order to create a link for your visitors to directly call you by skype.
Composer based Drupal projects can be fun
As a team that had spend time and money for years in developing best practices for staging, deployment and operations of many Drupal sites on version 5 to 7, the all new Drupal 8 came with some surprises and challenges in 2015, when first alpha and then beta releases started to see the light. Where all of Drupal core up to Drupal 7 had been exposed in the main project folder, all the contributed code from the Drupal community and third parties was located deep down in the code tree with custom code for the specific project sometimes was hard to separate from other contributions.
Configure Drush for Drupal 8 to work from project root
Drupal 8 projects are in most cases controlled by Composer and following best practices, the directory structure of a Drupal project looks similar to this (more details have already been covered here):
