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Description
Simplo has been working on a Backdrop CMS tutorial on how to build a Farmers Market website with Backdrop CMS. The goal of this project is create a follow along project that new users can experiment with to learn about Backdrop CMS features and some common contributed modules while building a site with practical features that they might also be able to use in their own site.
We forgot to start recording at the beginning. This recording includes some discussion about:
1) The specifics of this tutorial.
2) What kinds of things a tutorial like this should include.
3) Other tools for learning Backdrop CMS.
A
Okay,
so
we
are
recording
this
session,
so
if
anybody
doesn't
want
to
be
on
the
recording,
be
sure
to
mute
yourself
or
keep
your
camera
off,
but
I
do
still.
I
encourage
to
be
interrupted
and
ask
questions
just
because
we're
recording
doesn't
mean
not
to
do
that.
So
those
are
for
those
of
you
who
might
be
watching
this
recording
in
the
future.
A
I'm
sorry,
but
we
forgot
to
start
the
recording
at
the
beginning
and
we
missed.
I
talked
a
little
bit
about
the
features
in
the
farmers
market
site
that
we're
trying
to
build,
and
now
what
I'm
going
to
do
is
walk
through
a
little
bit
and
talk
about
how
we
built
what
tools
we
use
to
build
some
of
these
and
how
we
do
it
for
those
that
are
interested
and
I'm
actually
going
to
start
by
asking.
A
I'm
gonna
again
some
of
these
things,
like
this
block
here,
is
kind
of
intended
to
show
there's
a
number
of
different
ways.
You
could
you
could
do
this
and
I
I
like
this
module
called
fancy
block,
and
so
this
feature
was
partly
added
to
just
show
how
somebody
could
use
something
like
fancy
block
to
do
this
without
having
again
to
touch
the
theme
or
write
any.
You
know
no
custom
code
to
just
create
three
blocks
like
this
there's.
A
A
And
basically,
the
the
fancy
block
module
provides.
This
block
that
you
can
add
on
your
site,
which
lets
you
pick
a
grid
of
any
number
of
items.
So
I
chose
three:
we
could
do
more
or
less
it
lets
you
pick
things
like.
Do
you
want
the
icon
at
the
top
or
the
bottom
of
your
fancy
block,
and
you
can
pick
if
you
want
a
circle
or
a
square?
A
Will
it
uses
font
awesome
and
you
have
access
to
the
whole
font,
awesome
library
to
place
an
icon
along
with
some
text
and
a
link
and
you're
making
some
general
choices
here?
You
can
also
do
things
like
set
the
background
color.
I
think
there
are
a
few
bugs
in
this
module,
which
means
that
not
all
of
these
features
are
fully
working
as
they
expect
doc.
A
A
A
This
is
really
helpful.
If
what
what's
unfortunate
about
this
is
that
one
it
doesn't
show
you
the
icon
and
two.
I
was
going
to
say
that
it
doesn't
have
them
in
alphabetical
order,
but
it
does
seem
to.
I
wonder
if
that
is
something
that
got
fixed.
It
used
to
be
that
they
weren't
in
alphabetical
order.
So
if
I
knew
there
was
an
ambulance,
I
would
have
to
like
scroll
all
the
way
through
this
list
to
find
the
ambulance,
but
now
they
seem
to
be
sorting
in
alphabetical
order.
A
I
thought,
oh
here
it
is
under
adding
the
blocks
it
has
each
one.
So
it
has
a
instructions
on
how
to
build
the
policy
block
with
fancy
block,
and
it
has
some
screenshots
on
how
to
do
that,
and
it
has,
for
example,
instructions
on
how
to
build
the
map
block
and
the
map
block
we're
using
the
module
called
simple
google
maps
and
basically,
simple,
simple
google
maps
is
exactly
that.
It's
if
all
you
want
is
a
map
with
a
point
on
it.
A
A
C
A
A
Here
we
go
location
filter
and
this
is
the
node
we
already
looked
at.
Basically,
the
node
just
has
an
address
field,
nothing
fancy,
and
but
if
we
go
to
the
content
type
for
location
and
we
go
manage
displays
here,
we
go.
We
have
to
configure
this
to
be
google
map
from
one
line
address
and
then
here's
where
our
configuration
is.
A
A
D
What
sounds
kind
of
silly
saying
it,
but
what's
the
purpose
or
goal
of
this
site
being
like,
I
saw
you
also
have
it
publicly
hosted,
but
because
using
contrib
modules
like
the
simple
google
map,
make
it
so
that
you,
it
kind
of
precludes
doing
the
same
thing
and
core
is
like
a
sample
profile
or
something
like
that.
What's
the
the
situation
in
which
people
would
probably
take
a
look
at
this.
A
Well,
the
the
the
the
I
think.
Ultimately,
the
tutorial
is
intended
for
this
sort
of
site
builder,
who
wants
to
build
a
site
using
that
has
features
similar
to
these
right.
We
don't
expect
that
people
want
to
build
farmers
market
websites,
but
we
expect
that
they
want
to
build
websites
that
have
these
same
features
in
them
and
a
lot
of
these
things
can't
be
done
in
core.
A
So
this
this
tutorial
is
not
intended
to
be
like
just
for
how
to
do
things
in
core,
but
it
is
intended
to
be
how
you
can
do
this
without
having
to
do
any
custom
coding
or
necessarily
even
create
your
own
sub
theme.
So
it's
it's.
Basically
what
modules
do
you
need,
and
how
do
you
configure
them
to
create
these
kinds
of
features
all
right.
D
A
A
Those
kinds
of
resources
like
drupal
does
right,
and
this
was
it
sort
of
intended
to
go
in
that
direction,
to
be
that
kind
of
a
learning
tool,
and
it
was
also
inspired
by,
of
course,
the
drupal
8
user
guide
right,
which
folks,
like
joe
schindler,
put
a
lot
of
work
into
and,
and
I
helped
out
early
on
a
little
bit
with
the
drupal
8
user
guide,
where
they
they
did
a
similar
thing.
Although-
and
you
could
correct-
I
don't
know
if
you
know
anything
about
that.
A
A
D
A
D
B
B
B
You
know
it's
like
you
get
in
and
play
with
it.
So
you
know.
I
really
appreciate
what
you're
doing
here,
because
you
know
again
my
take
is
I
deal
with
a
lot
of
end
users
and
and
that
handoff
is
always
the
hardest
thing
for
me.
That's
the
hardest
part
to
create
that
confidence
is
yes,
you
can
do
it
and
no,
you
don't
need
to
rely
on
it.
You
know,
unlike
say,
you
know
a
lot
of
devs
with
with
their
agencies
that
want
that
end
user.
Coming
back
to
him
consistently.
B
You
know
I'm
not
necessarily
in
that
in
that
position
within
the
organizations
or
the
trade
groups
that
I'm
involved
in
you
know
I
I
get
in
there
and
I
join
and
get
on
the
boards
and
as
someone
with
a
little
bit
of
influence,
I'm
just
trying
to
create
direction,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
I'm
not
I'm
not
earning
an
income
from
building
these
websites,
I'm
just
trying
to
influence
what
direction
people
go.
So
so
I
know
that's
a
little
bit
you
know
out
and
about,
but
I
just
wanted
to
basically
say.
A
A
If
you
want
to
step
in
and
say
anything
about
what
you
think
about,
because
sarvajri
this
wouldn't
have
probably
happened,
if
savagery
weren't
coming
to
our
meetings
so
often
and
saying
how
does
an
absolute
beginner
somebody
that
knows
nothing
about
drupal
or
background,
but
has
heard
about
it
and
and
wants
to
learn
how
to
do
it?
How
do
they
learn
how
to
build
their
own
website
instead,
rather
than
just
hiring
a
developer
and
it's
his
sort
of
persistence
in
talking
about
that
is?
A
C
C
C
You
know,
they've
got
their
collection
of
favorite
modules
that
they
pull
out,
usually
that
they're
going
to
use
with
most
developments
that
they,
you
know,
kind
of
things
that
people
usually
do
they'll
have
their
favorite
modules.
So
I
looked
at
what
would
be
the
modules
that
might
want
to
be
considered
and
a
new
user's
site,
and
what
would
you
use
them
for
things
that
most
of
you
guys
who
have
been
doing
development?
C
Don't
even
think
about
it?
Anymore,
but
a
new
user
doesn't
know
about,
and
I
looked
at,
how
do
you
get?
How
do
you
get
your
site
up
once
you
create
it,
and
where
do
you
create
it?
And
you
know
I
was
looking
at
using
a
local
development
system
and
tim
thought:
no,
we
should
put
up
on
the
net
somewhere,
so
people
don't
even
have
to
create
their
own
place
to
build
their
site,
it's
already
done
for
them
and
they
can
just
go,
try
it
out
and
then
a
lot
of
times.
People
would
go.
C
C
We
started
by
looking
at
a
bunch
of
sites
around
the
country
that
were
farmers
market
sites
to
see
what
they
did,
but
you
don't
know
how
they
implemented
them,
because
they're
not
using
backdrop
or
they're
using
some
custom,
programming
or
whatnot,
and
so
we
we
picked
out
five
or
six
sites.
I
guess
that
we
started
with
and
from
those
we
looked
at
the
features
that
they
had
on
those
sites,
the
idea
of
vendors
and
what
the
how
how
a
vendor
would
get
started
to
become
a
part
of
that.
C
That
farmers
market
or
if
people
wanted
to
go
to
a
farmers
market,
maybe
they're
searching
for
some
kind
of
fruits
or
vegetables
that
they
want
to
buy
and
does
that
farmers
market
offer
those
things.
So
we
wanted
to
be
able
to
search
for
products
on
the
site
that
a
user
would
want
to
go
to
if
they,
if
they
had
a
farmer's
market
in
their
town,
and
they
wanted
to
know
whether
the
whether
the
products
were
available.
C
C
C
So
that's
how
we
got
started.
We
looked
at
different
farmers
markets
sites
around
the
country.
We
looked
at
what
they
offered
and
then
we
tried
to
create
something
that
would
implement
some
significant
features
that
we
thought
were
important
in
in
farmer's
markets
around
the
country,
and
so
that's
that's
what
we.
A
A
E
A
E
E
A
So
the
kinds
of
features
we're
trying
to
build
into
this
site
are
the
kinds
of
features
that
aren't
necessarily
important
for
a
farmers
market,
but
that
are
useful
across
the
board
for
lots
of
different
case
studies
and
then
we're
just
adapting
them
to
a
farmer's
market
right.
So
your
example
about
a
map
is
that
you
know
maybe
having
multi
a
moving.
A
Farmers
market
would
be
very
useful
to
farmers
markets,
but
I
think
my
choice
to
just
keep
it
to
a
single
map
was
a
little
bit
based
on
the
most
common
use
case
that
most
users
are
going
to
have.
Is
they
just
need
to
show
one
place
on
an
app,
so
we
sort
of
adopted
that,
as
the
use
case
for
our
example
site,
because
we
think
that's,
you
know
more
common-
that
the
the
need
to
to
show
a
moving
venue
is
probably
less
common.
We
could
show
that
it's
just
we
have
to
make
them.
A
D
A
You
know
those
are
the
kinds
of
examples
I'm
looking
for,
but
yeah.
So
thank
you
that
that's
a
good
one.
I
mean
I
do.
I
love
building
maps,
and
so
I
like
your
idea
about
having
a
more
complicated
map
or
showing
multiple
locations,
I
just
decided
to
keep
it
to
a
single
location
for
now,
because
I
think
for
a
beginner.
This
is
a
good
place
to
start
and
then
in
the
advanced
lesson,
we'll
come
back
and
do
a
more
advanced
map.
A
A
A
Yet
I'm
still
working
on
that,
I
guess
is-
is
to
create
a
list
of
the
modules
we
used
for
this
site
so
that
if
you're
a
beginner
and
you're
looking
like
what
kinds
of
modules
might
be
helpful
to
me,
you
could
use
this
as
sort
of
a
list
of
of
you
know,
I
don't
know
fairly
common
modules
or
at
least
modules
that
I'm
recommending
that
someone
might
want
to
look
at
now.
The
the
module
we
use
for
the
the
the
javascript
is
not
listed
there,
it's
a
oops.
A
A
C
E
A
A
C
A
C
A
A
A
And
it
uses
google
to
do
it
or
you
can
do
you
know
you
can
do
the
regular
backdrop
search
or
you
can
do
what
look
at
what
justin
was
talking
about
last
hour,
which
is
solar
search?
That's
a
a
more
advanced
kind
of
search
which
is
not
built
into
backdrop,
but
you
can
use
with
backdrop
so
there's
a
whole
number
of
different
search
solutions
and
it
all
depends
on
what
your
budget
is
and
how
important
search
is
to
you
and
again
again,
a
lot
of
our
sites
that
we
build.
A
Just
don't
have
that
much
content
that
yeah
oftentimes.
If
you
build
a
really
good
menu
system
that
should
help
people
find
your
content
right,
you
don't
need
a
search.
I
mean
certain
sites,
you're
going
to
need
a
search
fmr,
the
the
site
that
I
demonstrated
earlier
today.
This
website
has
thousands
of
nodes,
so
there's
no
way
you're
going
to
find
articles
in
the
through
the
menu
system,
and
we
do
have
a
search,
a
little
search
bar
here
where
you
can
search
for
turtles
and
we'll
see.
If
I
need
to
look
at
that
and.
A
C
A
A
A
So
one
of
the
things
that
I
actually
spent
time
on
last
weekend,
which
is
I
don't
know
if
this
was
a
good
use
of
my
time
for
this
tutorial,
but
we
have
the
vendor
directory
and
in
order
to
to
me,
if
you
really
want
to
learn
about
building
a
directory
like
this,
it's
helpful
to
have
some
sample
data
and
that
you
can
work
with,
and
I
didn't
want
people
to
have
to
like
build
20
nodes.
There
is
the
devel
generate
module,
but
I'm
personally
not
a
big
fan
of
using
that
fake
alarm,
ipsum
data.
A
I,
like
real,
looking
data
to
to
experiment
with,
and
so
I've
actually
created
a
spreadsheet
that
has
I've
created
a
spreadsheet
in
a
a
a
folder
of
images
that
somebody
can
use
if
they
want
to
learn
how
to
build
this
site
and
they
can
use
the
feeds
module
to
import
all
of
these
vendors
into
their
site,
including
the
images
and
again,
I'm
always
thinking
about
one.
Not
just.
What
do
I
want
for
this
site?
But
what
skills
do
I
want?
A
A
So
I
haven't
written
up
the
instructions
for
this,
but,
like
last
weekend,
I
spent
a
whole
day
creating
the
the
feed
template
that
I'm
gonna
use,
creating
the
the
folder
and
figuring
out
how
to
how
to
add
images.
If
you're,
a
beginner,
which
is
a
you
know,
how
can
you
use
feeds
to
import
images
is
if,
if
you
haven't
tried
that
that's
a
little
bit
tricky,
and
so
I
have
now
sort
of
a
recipe
that
I
can
write
up
on,
how
to
do
that.
A
Okay,
well,
I
think
we're
running
out
of
time.
I'm
not
gonna
necessarily
start
on
anything
new.
Unless
anybody
has
any
questions
or
anything
else,
they
want
to
share
any
ideas
for
me
on
what
to
do
next,
I
I
mean.
Hopefully,
some
people
have
gotten
some
ideas.
Just
from
the
modules
again,
you
know
my
goal
today
wasn't
to
teach
you
how
to
build
a
farmer's
market
website.
My
whole
goal
was
hopefully
to
introduce
you
to
some
modules
or
some
things
that
backdrop
does
that
you
might
not
have
known
about
that.
A
A
A
This
module
uses
the
color
module,
so
you
can
come
into
the.
Let
me
go
to
my
tutorial
site
instead
here
and
if
I
go
to
the
themes,
so
I'm
using
the
opera
theme
and
basically
what
it
does
is
it
lets.
You
pick
some
different
sets
of
colors
to
use
for
those
blocks
on
the
front
page
and
by
default
I
wasn't
sure
how
to
do
this.
It
would
just
the
first.
A
The
theme
would
basically
the
first
block
will
all
underneath
the
hero.
Image
will
always
be
a
white
background
and
then
there
will
be
three
different
color
patterns
that
are
available
to
you
and
then
the
final
block
will
always
be
a
white
background,
and
then
you
can
change
the
three
in
between
and
you
can
pick
whatever
color
settings
you
want
and
that's
what
these
set.
One
set
two
and
set
three
are,
and
they
will
kind
of
repeat
we
have
some
different.
A
A
Red
and
but
but
basically
the
main
point
is
this
ability
without
writing
a
custom
theme
to
have
these
kinds
of
blocks
and
that's
the
main
thing
the
opera
theme
does.
I
would
love
for
people
to
look
the
opera
theme.
Actually,
I
was
hoping
to
do
a
stable
release
by
backdrop.
Live.
I
didn't
it's
still
kind
of
an
alpha
beta
release,
but
I'm
very
close
to
doing
up.