Drupal Planet

On Tuesday, July 7, Agaric will host 3 free online webinars about Drupal 9. We invite the community to join us to learn more about the latest version of our favorite CMS. We will leave time at the end of each presentation for questions from the audience. All webinars will be presented online via Zoom. Fill out the form at the end of the post to reserve your seat. We look forward to seeing you.

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Time (EDT)

This webinar will cover basic site building concepts. You will learn what is a node and how they differ from content types. We are going to explain why fields are so useful for structuring your site's content and the benefits of doing this. We will cover how to use Views to create listing of content. Layout builder, blocks, taxonomies, and the user permissions system will also be explained.

Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 AM Eastern Time (EDT)

This webinar will present an overview of the Drupal migrations system. You will learn about how the Migrate API works and what assumptions it makes. We will explain the syntax to write migrations how different source, process, and destinations plugins work. Recommended migration workflows and debugging tips will also be presented. No previous experience with the Migrate API nor PHP is required to attend.

Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Time (EDT)

This webinar will present different tools and workflows to upgrade your Drupal 7 site to Drupal 9. We will run through what things to consider when planning an upgrade. This will include how to make site architecture changes, modules that do not have D9 counterparts, what to do when there are no automated upgrade paths.

Agaric is also offering full-day trainings for these topics later this month. Dates, prices, and registration options is available at https://agaric.coop/training

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DrupalCon Global 2020 is in a couple weeks and there are a lot of amazing sessions. Hope you can make it! While preparing my own DrupalCon Global session, I reviewed the other sessions and made a list of ones you might want to watch to help you prepare for upgrading from Drupal 6 or 7 or 8 to Drupal 9.

In some cases, it was very hard to choose just one on a particular topic. For example, there are 3 great layout builder talks! So, while these are some of my top picks, don't forget to check out all the DrupalCon Global sessions and add your favorites to your schedule.

If you are upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 and don't need to make any website improvements, then you can focus on the Drupal 9 sessions. If you will be doing a redesign and/or upgrading from Drupal 6 or 7 to Drupal 9, check sessions for dreaming up your new site, planning your new site architecture, and implementing your new site.

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As a publisher, it is especially important for you to get the most of what is offered when it comes to pay-per-click advertising. While selling or buying ads in the ad space can be complex, Google allows granular control over all your ads and configurations through Google Ad Manager. Combine this incredible ad management platform with Drupal 9's easy to use integration methods, and you will be able to manage multiple ads on your site while providing insightful reports for better optimization.

Google Ad Manager, previously known as Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP) is an ad server which helps the individuals or business with a good number of page views to generate revenue from their pages on the site. This ad platform facilitates both the buying and selling of ads across various ad networks and multiple locations. Google offers its ad server in two variants – Google Ad Manager for Small Business (completely free) and Google Ad Manager 360. It should be noted that the small business offering has some limited features but works well for small to medium-sized businesses.

1. Creating Ad Units - Ad Units are basic components of the Ad Manager. It defines the size of the ad and specific location of the Ad on your website or app where you want to display the ads.
Below is a sample screenshot of an Ad unit configured on the Ad manager account.

2. Delivering Ad unit - For delivering corresponding add units, we need to add Orders, Line items & Creatives.
•    The Orders in Google Ad manager, where we need to add advertiser & trafficker, in other word we can say if company A wants to buy ad space in our site, the first step to setting them up is to create their order in our google Ad manager account as all subsequent line items within this order.
•    Now create line item which holds information about the specific run dates, targeting, and pricing of one or more creatives.
•    A creative is a specific advertisement, such as an image file, a video file, or other content. One creative can be associated with more than one line item.

1. First, install and enable the DFP module.
2. Under structure menu, go to DFP Add tags. We have to set Network ID (prepending with “/“ (eg: /111111)  in global DFP settings tab which we will get from the Google Ad manager account. Save the configuration.

3. Fill up the following details in the Add DFP tag form.
   Ad Slot Name → Use the same label of Ad Unit configured in Google Ad manager account
   Size(s) → Copy the same sizes of Ad Unit configured in Google Ad manager account
   Ad Unit Pattern → Copy the exact pattern from the “Code“ of Ad unit configured in Google Ad manager account
  Under “Display Options”, make sure “Create a block for this ad tag“ is checked.
4. Save the Form. This will create a block with the required ad script.
5. Place the Block wherever it is required using either Structure / Block layout (for all pages).

The Drupal DFP integration allows website publishers and builders to integrate their Google ad manager accounts with their Drupal 9 website. To learn more about how we can help you leverage the best of Drupal and its modules, please feel free to connect with us.
 

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This past Sunday I did a livestream where I tried out the new issue forks functionality on Drupal.org. The feature is currently beta and project maintainers need to opt-in for the functionality. At the moment you can create a repository fork for an issue, create a work branch, and commit to that branch. You will need to manually create a patch to be uploaded, as Merge Requests with Drupal.org issues are still being worked on (the Drupal Association Infrastructure team is hoping to have this available for DrupalCon Global!)

When you view an issue that supports issue forks, there will be a new block in the sidebar. This allows you to create an issue fork or view information about the existing fork and its branches.