DrupalCampAtlanta - Site Building With Display Suite
1. Site Building
With Display Suite
By Jay Callicott
Product Manager, Lead Architect
DrupalCamp Atlanta 2012
2. Today’s Outline
• The Basics
• DS vs Panels
• DS Layouts (Stock & Custom)
• DS Adding Fields
• DS + Features
• DS + Views
• DS Search
• DS Forms
• DS Extras!
3. About Jay
• Lead Drupal Architect for Mediacurrent
• From Little Rock, AR
• OpenChurch maintainer
• Drupal developer & enthusiast since 4.6
• Twitter: @drupalninja
5. Display Suite The Basics
• Take full control over your content
• Arrange content without tpls
• Exportable!
• Change labels, add styles
• Views Integration
• Use the 2x branch!
14. Display Suite & Views
• Use ‘Content’ row style or ‘Display Suite’
• Avoid field bloat
• Lessen the overhead of the initial database
query (less joins usually)
• Delegate theming to content type
28. The End!
• DS Project page:
http://drupal.org/node/1524800
• Changes in 2x
http://drupal.org/node/1524800
• DS maintainer’s video series
http://www.youtube.com/user/swentieman
@drupalninja