With the code freeze underway for some time, Dries has posted an update about the upcoming Drupal 7 release. I thought this might be a nice time to overview some of the most exciting new stuff in Drupal 7 and see where all the action is happening right now.
Some overall highlights:
Lots of usability improvements [1]
New [...]
The new media library for Drupal won’t make it into Drupal 7 core, but there will be a big code sprint this weekend in New York to get this project on the road! Thanks to an amazing sponsorship chip-in organized by the community, the plane ticket was raised within days and our team member @mverbaar [...]
In their amazing effort to involve the community as much as possible, a while ago the Drupal 7 User Experience team — lead by Leisa Reichelt and Mark Boulton — introduced microprojects. These microprojects are about relatively small parts of Drupal which are in need of some user experience improvements.
Some examples of these microprojects include dashboard [...]
So you built a super-easy-user-friendly website for community members. But despite all your efforts to make everything go as smooth as possible there is still one thing which remains a bump in the road: logging in. Of course you offer a ‘remember me‘ checkbox and hope your users will let the browser remember the password, [...]
Big cheers to the folks at developmentseed and especially Young Hahn for creating this amazing admin module which drastically improves the usability of the Drupal backend. This is, in fact, a module and includes a admin menu, contextual administration links and an admin theme. It’s a very nice preview on how Drupal’s 7 backend might [...]
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