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A Drupal 7 preview
Wed, 02/24/2010 - 00:23 — em
A quick overview of what's to come in Drupal 7; very much from a Drupal user's point of view, I would imagine a fresh encounter with Drupal in its v 7 manifestation would be quite different.
Drupal 7 (alpha 2) was released on February 21, 2010 (http://drupal.org/download). Interested to see what's coming down the line (I'm predicting Drupal 7 official release to be ~6 months away based on the 5 month gap between Drupal 6 (beta 1) and Drupal 6 official release). So far, it's looking pretty swish!
The install process hasn't changed much, it's an easy to follow 6 step procedure:
The admin dashboard is the first significantly different UI:
Core modules are mostly familiar, with a few intriguing new names (hello Field UI) scattered in:
Reused, but far from tired: Interestingly, the default front end theme is still Garland. I recall thinking Steven Wittens' had delivered a classic (in a many faceted sense) when I first experienced Garland in Drupal 5.x.
Using the dashboard is a lovely balance of feature administration we're familiar with (e.g. Content Types) reshuffled under far more intuitive navigation terms (e.g. Structure):
I then dived straight into Content Types to investigate the Fields UI module I had spotted earlier:
So, what's the UI like for adding content? Sleek, unintimidating (unlike the earlier authoring interface) and a huge boost to Drupal's usability:
Overall, at first glance Drupal 7 looks very promising. I'm interested to know what, if any, the under-the-hood improvements are: performance? extensibility? database compatibility?
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Drupal 7 is moving along nicely, and is becoming increasingly stable. We just released a second alpha release, fixing a number of critical bugs, following our initial alpha release in January. Alpha releases are to give Drupalistas something to download and test, so they can report and help fix bugs.
Very interesting, especially the new organizational ideas in the admin Dashboard. I can't wait to see the final product in action.
It's worth pointing out one thing for any newcomers to Drupal: The official release date for Drupal 7 likely won't be the date to start creating full-featured production sites with it. As with new versions in the past, it'll take some time (months? a year?) before all third-party modules required by a given site are also upgraded for D7.
But, that lag will depend wildly on the site's needs; some sites may be ready to upgrade to D7, or start fresh with D7, the day it's released.
Anyway, thanks for the advance peek!
Hiya Ace! Thanks for stopping by and chipping in, I really enjoy your blog :)
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