Versatile, visual page builders like Elementor and Gutenberg have taken center stage in WordPress, while no-code solutions like Webflow continue to gain ground. Content managers are drawn to their flexibility and seemingly endless array of add-on blocks and features.
Drupal's site building experience, at least out-of-the-box, feels antiquated and clunky by comparison. This session will discuss a variety of techniques and modules you can use to enhance the editing experience without compromising (or only minimally compromising) your design and content model:
- Layout builder, Layout Paragraphs, Blocks, Entities -- what should the fundamental building blocks of your site be?
- What happened to a semantically fielded approach to content architecture? How can your content model scale if the data and presentation are smashed together?
- How do you maintain design integrity if content editors have so much flexibility?
