Content authoring can be painful. Drupal Gutenberg is an editor, originally written by the WordPress community, that makes it easy to create content—from long-form feature articles to rich landing pages.
As soon as we started presenting Gutenberg in client meetings, we knew it was huge. “How fast can we get this?” was the usual response. The people most eager to get started were always content producers. We were not surprised.
There’s a tendency in our industry to think of Drupal and WordPress as opposing camps, like Xbox vs PlayStation or iOS vs Android. Agencies pick sides, defend their choice, feel slightly superior to those on the other side, and get deep into specialization.
Have you had “the talk” with your clients? You know, the one where you tell them that if they are going to be doing it, they need to be safe. If they are going to collect private information or integrate external services like PayPal or MailChimp, it is time to sit down and have a discussion—about security. A company’s website is a portal to customer information, and if hacked, can lead to a very public breach resulting in loss of customers, fines, and brand damage.
Drupal configuration is the all-important glue that instructs the Drupal core and contrib code how to operate in the context of the current web application. In Drupal 7, there was no formal configuration API in core. The ctools contrib module provided an exportables API that was widely implemented, but was not universally supported. Drupal 8 has greatly improved on this state of affairs by providing the Configuration Management API in core. Now, configuration can be handled in a uniform and predictable way.
Before diving into specifics on the RainU story itself, we’d first like to introduce Pantheon partner agency Mediacurrent and the best-in-class Drupal solutions it offers to its clients.
Every engagement metric from content reach to conversions is downstream from site speed. Good performance means good user experience, and expectations are ever rising. Research from Google estimates that most sites lose half their mobile visitors while the page is loading.
In light of this, I wanted to see what the numbers actually showed for how our platform (and others) measured up. Speed is one of our core value propositions, but does Pantheon actually deliver?
Let’s face it—nobody likes to rely on patches. A project is much easier to maintain when it is using standard versions of all of its dependencies. Without patches, a project can be kept up to date simply by running composer update.
Pantheon has always provided full page caching at our edge layer so that your HTML responses are served as fast as possible to your website's visitors, as well as handling huge spikes of traffic. Now with the launch of our Global CDN, those cached responses and their metadata go to 30+ points of presence worldwide. Responses from your site will come much faster when the caches are physically closer to your site visitors.
Today I am extremely proud to announce Pantheon’s Cloud Integration Tools suite, comprised of Quicksilver Platform Hooks, a new release of our Terminus command-line interface, a new YAML-based project configuration interface, and broad compatibility with SAML for centralized authentication.
Ready to move sites from a slow, old host to Pantheon? Does your old site need some TLC? Today I’m happy to announce a new migration experience to help move your Drupal and WordPress sites to Pantheon. Check it out yourself by selecting the “Migrate existing site” button in your User or Pantheon for Agencies dashboard.