Varbase News Base

The Varbase News Base recipe provides a fully configured news content type with featured images, tags, categories, and an optimized listing page with filters for Varbase sites.

Drupal.org Project

https://www.drupal.org/project/varbase_news_base

Overview

Varbase News Base is the news counterpart of Varbase Blog Base. It creates the news content type with all necessary fields, configures display modes, and sets up a news listing view with exposed filters for browsing and searching news content.

It also provides a related news display, a latest news display, and the Drupal Canvas content templates for the news page and for the card view modes.

Recipe Dependencies

Depends on the following recipes:

Recipe	Description
Varbase Content Base	Core content configuration including node types and taxonomy.
Varbase Media Base	Comprehensive media handling with image styles and media library.
Varbase SEO Base	Comprehensive SEO modules and configurations.
Varbase Workflow Base	Content moderation, scheduled publishing, and workflows.

Included Modules

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

Module	Purpose
Selective Better Exposed Filters	Provide extra option for better exposed filters to show only used terms in filter.
Webshare	Adds a share button that opens the browser's native share dialog.

Installation

Apply the recipe using Drush:

ddev drush recipe ../recipes/varbase_news_base

This recipe is automatically applied when using the Educare site template.