Blocks

Blocks

• Blocks Admin
• Regions
• Block Settings

Limitations

• Limitations with Selection
• Performance
• 1 Block in 1 Region

Context

Context

Development Seed

Context

• Displays Blocks based on Context of the page
• Conditions and Reactions

Context

Context Lets you manipulate

• Menu
• Blocks
• Other Modules
• Theme

Context

• Multiple Conditions (Rules)
• And or Logic (Combinations)
• Same Block in Multiple Regions

Context

• Regions are provided by Themes
• Users cannot re-arrange blocks
• Limitations selecting Layouts
• Performance ?

Panels

Panels

Earl Miles @merlinofchaos

(Views, Ctools)

Panels

• Pane
• Layouts
• Layout Builder
• Panel Pages
• Panel Overrides
• Variants
• Conditions
• Context
• Passing information between Panes
• Pane Styles

Panels

• Path driven
• Handles entire Content area
• Can disable Regions
• Caching
• Custom Layouts

Panels IPE

In Place Editor

Blocks vs Context vs Panels

Blocks

• Loops through block_list each template region
• Regions provided by Theme
• Check condition for each block
• Sort Blocks in Each region

Context

• Conditions and Reactions
• Checks for Context of the page
• Load Blocks/Menu/Views based on Context

Panels

Panels and Performance

Panels

• Knows all Panes that go in Each panel
• Picks and places the Panes

Use Case

Blocks

• Simple

Context

• Advanced
• Export/Import
• Features Integration

Panels

• Multiple Layouts
• Site Builders
• Layouts without Code
• Tighter Integration with Views
• Features Integration

More on Panels

Extending Panels

• Panels Everywhere
• Panelizer
• Custom Panel Layouts with c-tools plugins
• Panopoly
• Radix
• Context Panels