# Varbase Admin Base The **Varbase Admin Base** recipe manages the default admin experience for Varbase sites, including modules, configurations, and role-based permissions for site administration. ## Drupal.org Project ## Included Modules Brings in the following core and contributed modules to your site: | Module | Purpose | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Node** *(in Drupal core)* | Manages the creation, configuration, and display of the main site content. | | **Help** *(in Drupal core)* | Generates help pages and provides a Help block with page-level help. | | **Taxonomy** *(in Drupal core)* | Enables the categorization of content. | | [**RoleAssign**](https://www.drupal.org/project/roleassign) | Allows site administrators to further delegate the task of managing user's roles. | | [**Custom Permissions**](https://www.drupal.org/project/config_perms) | Allows additional permissions to be created and managed through an administration form. | | [**Admin Audit Trail**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs general CUD events performed by the user (using the forms) on the website. | | [**Admin Audit Trail File**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs file CUD events performed by the user. | | [**Admin Audit Trail Media**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs node CUD events performed by the user. | | [**Admin Audit Trail User**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs user CUD events performed by the user. | | [**Admin Audit Trail Taxonomy**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs taxonomy vocabulary and term CUD events performed by the user. | | [**Admin Audit Trail Node**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs node CUD events performed by the user. | | [**Admin Audit Trail Menu**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs menu CUD events performed by the user. | | [**Admin Audit Trail User Authentication**](https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_audit_trail) | Logs user authentication (login logout and request password). | | [**Masquerade**](https://www.drupal.org/project/masquerade) | Allows privileged users to masquerade as another user. | | [**Menu Admin per Menu**](https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_admin_per_menu) | Allows to give roles per menu admin permissions without giving them full administer menu permission. | | [**Revision Log Default**](https://www.drupal.org/project/revision_log_default) | Provides sensible defaults for revision logs, if none are given. | | **Syslog** *(in Drupal core)* | Logs events to the web server's system log. | | **Update Status** *(in Drupal core)* | Checks for updates and can notify users if there are new releases available. | | [**Autosave Form**](https://www.drupal.org/project/autosave_form) | Adds autosave feature on forms. | | **Settings Tray** *(in Drupal core)* | Allows users to directly edit the configuration of blocks on the current page. | | [**Entity Clone**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_clone) | Add a clone action for all entities. | | [**Taxonomy Manager**](https://www.drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager) | Tool for administrating taxonomy terms. | | [**Taxonomy Access Fix**](https://www.drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access_fix) | Extends access handling of Drupal Core's Taxonomy module. | | [**Coffee**](https://www.drupal.org/project/coffee) | Provides an Alfred like search box to navigate within your site. | | [**Length Indicator**](https://www.drupal.org/project/length_indicator) | Adds an optional length indicator to fields. | | [**Maxlength**](https://www.drupal.org/project/maxlength) | Adds maxlength attributes and a character counter to text fields and rich-text editors. | | **Navigation** *(in Drupal core)* | New administration navigation. | | [**Navigation Extra Tools**](https://www.drupal.org/project/navigation_extra_tools) | Adds menu links like flush cache, run cron, and run updates to the Drupal core Navigation menu. | | [**Gin Toolbar**](https://www.drupal.org/project/gin_toolbar) | Gin Toolbar for Gin Theme. | | [**Gin Login**](https://www.drupal.org/project/gin_login) | Custom Drupal Login for Gin theme. | | [**Gin everywhere**](https://www.drupal.org/project/gin_everywhere) | Enables Gin's edit form layout for every content entity. | | [**Gin Type Tray**](https://www.drupal.org/project/gin_type_tray) | Themes the Type Tray module for the Gin administrative theme. | | [**Trash**](https://www.drupal.org/project/trash) | Provides the ability to soft-delete content entities. | | [**ECA VBO**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca_vbo) | Integrates ECA: Event - Condition - Action with Views Bulk Operations (VBO). | | [**UI Icons Form element**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ui_icons) | Core Icons main form element for Icon autocomplete. | | [**Varbase Recipes**](https://www.drupal.org/project/varbase_recipes) | Provides Varbase recipes as a source for the Project Browser. | ## Available Modules (Not Enabled by Default) The following modules are downloaded with this recipe but not enabled during installation. You can enable them manually if needed: | Module | Purpose | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [**User Protect**](https://www.drupal.org/project/userprotect) | Allows admins to protect users from being edited or cancelled, on a per-user basis. | | [**Prevent Homepage Deletion**](https://www.drupal.org/project/prevent_homepage_deletion) | With this module you can revoke the permission to delete specific nodes. | | [**Views Bulk Edit**](https://www.drupal.org/project/views_bulk_edit) | Allows bulk edition of entity field values. | ## Included Themes | Theme | Description | | --------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [**Gin**](https://www.drupal.org/project/gin) | Admin theme with a strong focus on improving the Editorial Experience. | ## Installation Apply the recipe using Drush: ```bash ddev drush recipe ../recipes/varbase_admin_base ``` This recipe is automatically applied when using the Varbase Starter recipe. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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