# Drupal CMS Admin UI

## Description

The Drupal CMS Admin UI recipe sets up the administrative theme and navigation for Drupal CMS sites. It provides a modern, polished administration experience using the Gin theme along with productivity tools for site administrators.

This recipe is used by the **varbase\_starter** recipe as part of the Varbase 11.0.x installation.

## Included Modules

Brings in the following core and contributed modules to your site:

| Module                                                                              | Purpose                                                                                          |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Announcements** *(in Drupal core)*                                                | Displays announcements from the Drupal community.                                                |
| [**Automatic Updates**](https://www.drupal.org/project/automatic_updates)           | Automatically updates Drupal core.                                                               |
| [**Coffee**](https://www.drupal.org/project/coffee)                                 | Provides an Alfred like search box to navigate within your site.                                 |
| **Contextual Links** *(in Drupal core)*                                             | Provides contextual links to directly access tasks related to page elements.                     |
| [**Dashboard**](https://www.drupal.org/project/dashboard)                           | Provides customizable dashboards.                                                                |
| **Database Logging** *(in Drupal core)*                                             | Logs system events in the database.                                                              |
| [**Drupal CMS Helper**](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal_cms_helper)           | Provides functionality for Drupal CMS that is not yet in Drupal core or dependencies.            |
| [**Drupical**](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupical)                             | Displays Drupal community events from drupal.org.                                                |
| **File** *(in Drupal core)*                                                         | Provides a field type for files and defines a "managed\_file" Form API element.                  |
| [**Gin Login**](https://www.drupal.org/project/gin_login)                           | Custom Drupal Login for Gin theme.                                                               |
| [**Gin Toolbar**](https://www.drupal.org/project/gin_toolbar)                       | Gin Toolbar for Gin Theme.                                                                       |
| **Custom Menu Links** *(in Drupal core)*                                            | Allows users to create menu links.                                                               |
| **Menu UI** *(in Drupal core)*                                                      | Provides a user interface for managing menus.                                                    |
| **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.  |
| [**Project Browser**](https://www.drupal.org/project/project_browser)               | Provides a user interface for browsing available Drupal projects.                                |
| [**Simple Add More**](https://www.drupal.org/project/sam)                           | Improves limited-cardinality widgets by displaying only one empty element at a time.             |
| [**Tagify**](https://www.drupal.org/project/tagify)                                 | Makes entity reference fields more user-friendly using Tagify.                                   |
| [**Tagify User List**](https://www.drupal.org/project/tagify)                       | Provides a user list component from Tagify user lists.                                           |
| **Update Status** *(in Drupal core)*                                                | Checks for updates and can notify users if there are new releases available.                     |
| **Views UI** *(in Drupal core)*                                                     | Provides a user interface for creating and managing views.                                       |
| [**View Password**](https://www.drupal.org/project/view_password)                   | Allows the users to see the contents of the password fields on selected forms before submission. |

## 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/drupal_cms_admin_ui
```


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