A brief overview of Varbase Docs Drupal and its features.

Varbase is a product of Vardot, the enterprise Drupal solutions provider.

We simplify and organize all the work for you! So you can enjoy building your website in less time. This documentation is built and maintained by a community of developers, content designers and digital leaders from Vardot.

We will start sharing quick overview for Varbase product and community, then our roadmap and finally how to reach out for support.

Introduction

Varbase is an enhanced Drupal distribution packed with adaptive functionalities and essential modules, that speed up your development, and provides you with standardized configurations, making your life easier.

The essence of Varbase, lies within the basic concept that initiated it; DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). Varbase handles that for you, relieving you from repeating all the modules, features, configurations that are included in every Drupal project.

Varbase can bring ease to you if you are:

• Confused about choosing the appropriate module needed for a specific functionality.

• Trying to bridge the gap between the users experience and editors experience.

• Being overwhelmed by the complexity of making a fully-fledged Drupal CMS website.

• Wasting so much time on choosing the suitable functionalities.

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Credits

is a product of , the enterprise Drupal solutions provider.

Varbase is Open Source

Varbase is developed by a core team of experienced Drupal developments and is funded and supported by Vardot, a leading Drupal agency with offices in the USA, Egypt, and Jordan.

Varbase is available as an Open Source and FREE software for developers and development teams to install, host, and run it yourself.

Open Source software is free and promotes the collaboration and sharing of ideas. Varbase was built on top of Drupal, which is Open Source and is completely free. Everyone should contribute something, sometimes simply reporting and maybe fixing a minor bug can make a difference. The Drupal community and the marketplace make money supporting Drupal. If you need a feature or support you should contact the Varbase .

But I Need Professional Support

Varbase provides a great deal of functionality out of the box, which makes it possible for you to prototype your knowledge base, and try out and experiment with all the available features.

However, if you need professional support for implementation, customization, training, or hosted management, please contact Vardot at

You may also contact for professional and enterprise support of Varbase by sending an email to:

Understanding Version Numbers

Varbase follows the Drupal 9/10/11 release cycle. Therefore, a version of Varbase is named 10.0.x uses the same major version of Drupal 10.

Provides a recipe to automatically generate and fill the alt text of an image field using AI.

Drupal Recipe

Provides default configuration and enhancements to utilize Drupal core's Layout Builder.

A recipe to add AI-powered features and an assistant button to a CKEditor 5 text editor.

Drupal Recipe

Add the Recipe Using Composer

Change directory to /web or /docroot

Apply the Recipe with Drush

Provide Tours for Varbase.

Varbase Tour Module

is a great local development environment for Drupal and other applications that vastly simplifies local development and DevOps so you can focus on the application, rather than the environment.

Learn more about Lando on the official website:

Varbase is a Drupal Distribution

A Drupal distribution is a collection of Drupal and other software components built, assembled, and configured so that it can be used essentially "as is" for its intended purpose.

Varbase is built on top of , utilizing the Drupal installation profiles feature.

Drupal is the #1 platform for web content management among global enterprises, governments, higher education institutions, and NGOs. Flexible and highly scalable, Drupal publishes a single web site or shares content in multiple languages across many devices. Technology and business leaders transform content management into powerful digital solutions with Drupal backed by one of the world's most innovative open source communities.

A dashboard is what's missing for better Drupal administration experience.

This dashboard is built on top of module, utilize Drupal core's Layout Builder for dynamic dashboard management, and several enhanced blocks and widgets for an intuitive and flexible administration experience.

The idea is made to provide the site admins with an appealing and concise dashboard to become the home of any Drupal site's administration task.

Provides default set of dashboards with configuration and enhancements for dynamic default, editorial, and admin dashboard management system.

Varbase Dashboards Module

Provides an AI-powered chatbot for streamlined administration and allows managing multiple agents with distinct functionalities.

Utilizing the , , modules, and inspired by the outstanding work from the recipe. Optimized for the Varbase standard and flavor.

Drupal Recipe

Adds HTML email templates for Drupal.

Varbase Email Module

Allows to display video and/or image slides. It implements the universal "Hero Slider" to be used in your homepage.

URL/path aliases are automatically generated in Varbase for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows the administrator to have URL aliases like /category/my-node-title instead of /node/123.

Drupal assigns a unique id number to each node created, ex: /node/60. However, by using "URL Alias" a more readable URL alias can be generated, ex: /node/landing-page.

The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system that uses tokens that the administrator can change. In Drupal, you can specify a pattern to follow for different types of content. Which gives the ability to automatically generate or regenerate aliases for pre-existing content as well as using tokens.

Hint: This can be achieved by using the module which comes pre-installed with Varbase and is enabled by default.

Using the Varbase Landing Page (Layout Builder) module and content type.

Use Cases

Cases when a Landing page with customized layout is needed:

• A new site section page

A media block contains a title and media.

Varbase Media (Image/Video) Block Module

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

Base theme for Varbase standard websites. Based on Bootstrap 4 framework using SASS, and extending Barrio contrib theme.

Vartheme (Bootstrap 4 - SASS) Theme

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

The Flood Control module provides a simple interface to configure hidden flood control options and provides the ability to remove IP addresses and user IDs from the flood table.

The Flood Control module is installed and enabled in Varbase by default, site admins are given access to the Flood Unblock table where the list of blocked IP addresses and user IDs can be seen.

Unblocking Blocked Users and IPs

The Flood Unblock table can be accessed by navigating to Administration \ People \ Flood Unblock.

The table shows the blocked users with other information like the timestamp of the failed login.

A user can be unblocked by selecting it from the flood table and clicking on the Removed selected items from the flood table button at the bottom of the page.

Configuring Flood Control

Flood Control configurations can be accessed by navigating to Administration \ Configuration \ People \ Flood Control.

• IP login limit: How many failed login attempts are allowed from one IP address before being blocked

• IP time window: The allowed time window for failed IP logins

• Username login limit: How many failed login attempts a username is allowed before being blocked

• Username login time window: The allowed time window for failed username logins

View Modes inventory (VMI) provides a set of template content "View Modes" that are typically used (some of them) in each website.

Available View Modes and Its Layouts:

Vertical media

• Vertical media teaser - xlarge.

• Vertical media teaser - large.

• Vertical media teaser - medium.

• Vertical media teaser - small.

• Vertical media teaser - xsmall.

Horizontal media

• Horizontal media teaser - xlarge.

• Horizontal media teaser - large.

• Horizontal media teaser - medium.

• Horizontal media teaser - small.

Text teaser

• Text teaser - large.

• Text teaser - medium.

• Text teaser - small.

Touts

• Tout - xlarge.

• Tout - large.

• Tout - medium.

Hero

• Hero xlarge.

For quick tips watch this video.

Provides search configuration, and offering search capabilities.

Varbase Search Module

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

A base theme for Varbase standard websites.

A new generation of theming (base theme) based on Bootstrap 5, Single Directory Components (SDC) with Drupal ~10.1.0, and UI Patterns 2.0.x-dev.

Having Varbase Components to provides component management system for Varbase and Vartheme BS5.

Vartheme (Bootstrap 5 - SASS) Theme

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

Provide feed type that imports from YouTube channels and playlists.

Varbase YouTube Import Module

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

Offering customizable Content Planner dashboard. Drag and drop calendar for adding, scheduling, and rescheduling content. Drag and drop Kanban for any workflow.

Varbase Content Planner Module

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

Required Varbase Modules

This module needs the following Varbase modules in order to function.

Varbase Core Module

Provides core components required by other features.

Varbase Workflow Module

Includes a toolkit for robust, quick, and enterprise content moderation features.

Provide webforms features and settings.

Varbase Webform Module

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

An Open Source Drupal distribution. Built to rapidly develop websites and web applications, That empower teams with a focus on enterprise requirements.

Why We Created Varbase

Platform-as-a-service tuned for security, scalability, and resilience

• Accelerate launching websites

• Bridge the gap between the users' experience and editors' experience in Drupal.

• Bring new capabilities not yet present in Drupal core

• Furnish best-in-class standards and selected capabilities from the vast array of Drupal modules

Varbase is built on top of Drupal, utilizing the Drupal installation profiles feature.

Drupal is the #1 platform for web content management among global enterprises, governments, higher education institutions, and NGOs. Flexible and highly scalable, Drupal publishes a single web site or shares content in multiple languages across many devices. Technology and business leaders transform content management into powerful digital solutions with Drupal backed by one of the world's most innovative open source communities.

Visit Drupal.org for more information: http://www.drupal.org

Read here about how Drupal 10's installation profile feature works: https://www.drupal.org/docs/distributions/creating-distributions

Varbase Components

The components that make up Varbase are outlined in the Venn diagram below:

A recipe to configure default AI modules, settings, and permissions in Varbase, enabling OpenAI integrations for alt-text generation, CKEditor enhancements, and various AI-powered features.

Drupal Recipe

Add the Recipe Using Composer

Change directory to /web or /docroot

Apply the Recipe with Drush

Manages default config for Tweet media type.

Varbase Media Twitter Module

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

This section will be explaining how to apply the active menu trail using the Menu Position module which is already installed and configured within Varbase.

Let us visit the Blogs landing page section on the site, you will notice the "Blogs" on the main menu is active but once you visit one of the Blog posts, you will notice the "Blogs" is no longer active.

This is a problem for the users because they will get lost and get confused if they are still in the blogs section or they were in another section of the site.

To solve this issue, we can simply by adding a position rule to the Blog post content type. Navigate to: Administration \ Structure \ Menu Position Configuration

As you have noticed there are no rules yet, please follow the instruction on how to add a Menu Position Rule:

1. Click the "Add Menu Position Rule" button

2. Add a label "Blog posts"

3. Make sure the checkbox is Enabled

4. Select "Main Navigation" from the "Parent menu item" drop-down field

Now if you go back to the blog post content, you will notice the "Blogs" menu item is active.

Provides a UI to review Varbase Updates that are made available in every version.

Varbase Updates Helper Module

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

Intercepts all outgoing emails from a Drupal site and reroutes them to a predefined configurable email address.

Example use for rerouting emails :

If a live production site was copied to a testing server for the purpose of development. The copied site should not send any emails to real users of the original production site.

Configuring the Reroute Email Settings for a Development Environment

Navigate to: Administration \ Configuration \ Development \ Reroute Email

Enter a list of email addresses to route all emails to.

On enabling the Varbase Development module in a development environment, a default config values will be sat to the reroute email settings.

• Rerouting email addresses: [email protected]

• Whitelisted email addresses: *@vardot.com

Having an empty field with no provided values for rerouted email addresses will results on having all outgoing emails been aborted and recorded in the recent log entries, with a full dump of the email variables, which could provide an additional debugging method.

The allowed list section allows setting up lists of email address and domain name exceptions for which outgoing emails would not be rerouted.

Configuring the Reroute Email Settings on Varbase Installation

While installing a fresh Varbase for a project. It is available to setup the rerouting email address in the Development Tools installation step.

Check the "Install Development Tools" check box to expend out the mini development setting.

Change the default emails for "Rerouting email addresses" and "Whitelisted email addresses"

Varbase packages several modules and themes to make use of its functionality.

Those components are detailed in the table below:

Provides starter default content for Varbase.

Varbase Default Content Module

This module is already installed and configured within Varbase. The main purpose of this module is to fix all URLs that should redirect to the production site if it was redirected to the internal contents.

To navigate to the Pathologic configuration page: Administration \ Configuration \ Content authoring \ Pathologic configuration

There are three type of URL formats:

• Full URL (http://example.com/foo/bar): This option is best for stopping broken images and links in syndicated content (such as in RSS feeds), but will likely lead to problems if your site is accessible by both HTTP and HTTPS.

If you already have a local or hosted environment available for your use that meets and/or including working versions of Apache, MySQL, and PHP, you’re ready to install Varbase.

Installing Varbase locally with Composer

Follow the steps below to install Varbase distribution for Drupal 9 on a local server.

To configure the Security Kit module in your site, navigate to: Administration \ Configuration \ System \ Security Kit settings

The configuration page allows you to configure settings to tighten your website's security regarding:

• Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Text and image paragraph type.

Varbase Bootstrap Paragraphs Text and Image Module

Varbase Development Module

Install the development tools if you're a developer and you're going to use Varbase to build a new project. This will install several modules that help you build your site, such as , , and UI modules such as View UI, and Configuration Update Reports.

Varbase bundles several security-related enhancements for compliant and secure websites.

Varbase Security module assembles general security configurations, with password policy, username enumeration prevention, security kit and review.

Populates the universal media header style on top of web pages. Which lets site builders activate that for content types.

Varbase Media Header Module

Manages default config for Instagram media type.

Varbase Media Instagram Module

An HTML Code block contains a title and a body with an HTML text format.

Varbase HTML Code Block Module

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

A heading block is used to add headings to your page or sections. Headings help structure your page making your content easier to read by humans and search engines.

Varbase Heading Block Module

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

Includes a toolkit for robust, quick, and enterprise content moderation features. It is useful for small sites with simple publishing workflow to enterprise complex publishing workflows, all thanks to leveraging Drupal 10 Content Moderation and Workflow modules.

Varbase Workflow Module

After building a project using the varbase-project template, you can see the code of the Varbase Workflow module in:

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

Default Workflows

1. Simple workflow: Draft, Published, and Archived Useful for any website, and offers the ability make a draft of a live version of content without unpublishing the whole content.

2. Editorial workflow: Draft, Published, In review, and Archived Useful for website with editorial or moderation staff. You can create as many additional states as you like and define transitions between them to suit your organization's needs.

Sub Modules

Varbase Content Planner Module

Offering customizable Content Planner dashboard. Drag and drop calendar for adding, scheduling, and rescheduling content. Drag and drop Kanban for any workflow.

• Customizable Content Planner dashboard

• Drag-n-drop calendar for adding, scheduling, and rescheduling content

• Drag-n-drop Kanban for any workflow

A dashboard is what's missing for better Drupal administration experience.

This dashboard is built on top of Total Control Admin Dashboard module, utilizing Panels, Google Analytics Reports, and several enhanced blocks and widgets for an intuitive and flexible administration experience.

The idea is made to provide the site admins with an appealing and concise dashboard to become the home of any Drupal site's administration task.

Varbase Total Control Dashboard Module

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

Adds single sign-on using existing information from a social networking service. Such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google. Built using Social API.

Varbase Social Single Sign-On Module

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

A rich text block contains a title and a body with a rich text format.

Varbase Rich Text Block Module

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

DDEV is an open source tool for launching local web development environments in minutes. It supports PHP and other languages.

Learn more about DDEV on the official website: https://ddev.com

Steps to Setup Varbase with DDEV

Install DDEV on your machine. Whether you’re using Linux, Mac, or Windows, there’s a package for you. Follow to install DDEV.

1- Create a folder for a local Varbase project

2- Configure and Start DDEV in the folder

3- Create a Varbase Project in DDEV

Launch the DDEV url in the Default Browser

You’re all set! Enjoy working with Varbase and DDEV!

Check DDEV Status

Verify the status of your DDEV project by running:

Quick Install Varbase with DDEV

Varbase Demo

Full installation including demo content and sample data.

Full Site

Complete Varbase installation with all components enabled except.

Minimal Site

Core Varbase installation with all extra components explicitly disabled.

Extra DDEV Configs

For more information on the DDEV file configuration, read more on

Adding DDEV to an existing Varbase project

1. Download config.yaml file and .ddev folder from the Varbase project repository .

2. Proceed with steps 1, 2, 3, and 4 mentioned above.

Viewing and Editing Specific Aliases

The List tab shows a list of all existing URLs on the site with their alias, with a search field to filter for aliases.

Editing an existing alias is possible by clicking on the Edit button next to the alias wanted to be edited. The edit alias page will contain two fields:

• System path which should point to an existing path on the site.

• URL alias which will contain the alias for the system path specified, both of these fields should start with a forward slash (/).

The Add alias button will allow the user to add a new alias to the site, the add alias page contains two fields which are:

• System path which should point to an existing path on the site.

• URL alias which will contain the alias for the system path specified, both of these fields should start with a forward slash (/).

Bulk Generate Aliases Based on Predefined Patterns

Pattern type aliases can be deleted individually or you can delete all aliases of the site by navigating to the Delete tab.

Another option available is to only delete automatically generated aliases, this can be helpful in case the URL aliases patterns were changed and there is a need to regenerate them.

Bulk generation can be done in the Bulk generate to apply the following:

• Generate URL aliases for items that currently have no aliases

• Re-generate URL aliases for items that have an old alias and for which the Pathauto pattern has been changed.

To configure the Password Policies on your site, navigate to: Administration \ Configuration \ Security \ Password Policy

Varbase ships with a default password policy to provide a way to enforce restrictions on user passwords by defining password policies.

You can add multiple policies each policy is assigned to a specific role, or edit the default provided policy

A password policy can be defined with a set of constraints that must be met before a user password change will be accepted. Each constraint has a parameter allowing for the minimum number of valid conditions which must be met before the constraint is satisfied.

Example: an uppercase constraint (with a parameter of 2) and a digit constraint (with a parameter of 4) means that a user password must have at least 2 uppercase letters and at least 4 digits for it to be accepted.

Change Password Suggestions settings

Changing policy constraints won't affect the markup or wordings found in the "Recommendations to make your password stronger" box on the user profile page, to reflect changes to the end-user when creating or editing their password you should edit the password suggestions settings form found at Administration \ Configuration \ Varbase settings \ Varbase Security settings \ Password Suggestions settings.

A modern administration theme for Varbase standard websites.

Based on the Gin Admin Theme and Claro Drupal core admin theme.

Following up with Drupal Design system

• Left to right (LTR) support with custom tweaks and fixes.

• Right to left (RTL) support with a better perloaded selected RTL font.

Varbase Claro Admin Theme

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

How to Enable HTTP Password Authentication on The Whole Site

The PHP Authentication Shield module was packaged with Varbase Core, but not enabled on the installation of Varbase.

A simple shield for the site with Apache authentication. It hides the sites, if the user does not know a simple username/password.

Enable the PHP Authentication Shield module to be able to have general shield for the site.

drush pm:enable shield

Navigate to Configurations \ System \ Shield from the administration toolbar menu.

Check or un-check the "Enable Shield" checkbox to enable/disable shield functionality. All other settings are ignored if this is not checked.

Add an authentication message to show it in the authentication request popup. Use the [user] and [pass] tokens to print the user and the password respectively. leave it empty, when not wanting to print out any special message to users.

Provide the desired User and Password in the credential part of the settings.

Press the Save Configuration button to save the changed configurations.

The site will start asking to fill in a user and password on every opened new session.

How to Enable HTTP Password Authentication on Specific URLs/Pages

Adding HTTP authentication for a specific route/pattern instead of the whole site.

The list of paths will be either excluded from, or included in Shield protection.

Select "Include" to protect only the listed paths.

Include a leading slash to listed internal links.

Provides custom styling guide for components for Varbase.

Install Varbase custom styling guide if you want to have a full look for Varbase components, Bootstrap elements, and view mode style for content types. This will install several modules that help you on themeing and styling your site, such as Style Guide.

Varbase Style Guide Module

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

Configuration

• Navigate to Administration \ Extend and enable the Varbase Styleguide module.

• Navigate to Administration \ Structure \ Content types and add a new content type.

• Navigate to Administration \ Structure \ Content types \ [Content type to edit] \ Manage display and in the vertical tab set select "Custom display settings" and activate desired View modes. Save.

Provides a recipe to automatically tag selected referenced taxonomy terms based on the content entity's body field.

Drupal Recipe

Add the Recipe Using Composer

Change directory to /web or /docroot

Apply the Recipe with Drush

Defines simple text field types.Provides Basic page content type and related configuration.

Varbase Page Module

Provides Blog post content type and related configuration.

Use Blog to publish a blog post by different authors in the Blog section of the site.

Spam is sending bulks of emails or submissions at low volume per IP this can cause issues as it could be harmful and annoying. One of the ways spammers can damage a website is by using forms found on that website; forms are great and helpful however they are still vulnerable to attackers and spambots that are trying to crack into websites found on the web.

CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA on Forms

To configure the CAPTCHA methods in your site, navigate to: Administration \ Configuration \ People \ CAPTCHA module settings

Provides the base implementation for the carousels in your website.

Admins will be able to create carousels on the spot and place it anywhere on the site.

Varbase Carousels Module

Populates the universal implementation of a "Hero Slider" to be used on the homepage in most cases.

A rich hero slider that allow Content Admins to display video and/or image slides. It implements the universal "Hero Slider" to be used in your homepage.

Varbase Media Hero Slider Module

A JSON:API implementation with authentication and authorization that allows for easy ingestion of content by other applications.

Varbase API Module

Languages, and translation support.

Enables the necessary modules for a multilingual website. These include: Language, Interface Translation, Content Translation, Configuration Translation, and its recommended configuration.

Varbase Internationalization Module

A gallery block contains a title and a gallery of images and videos.

Varbase Gallery Block Module

Provides a list of statistical reports. Targeted about users, content, blocks. And be able to export data.

Varbase KPIs Users Reports - Registered users report

Varbase KPIs Content Reports - Created content report

Varbase Reports Module

Populates the universal implementation of a "Hero Slider" to be used on the homepage in most cases.

A rich hero slider that allow Content Admins to display video and/or image slides. It implements the universal "Hero Slider" to be used in your homepage.

Varbase Hero Slider Module

How to Manage the Date and Time?

This section will be talking about how to manage the date and time on Varbase, navigate to: Administration \ Configuration \ Regional and language \ Date and time formats

A Drupal Distribution

A or (distro) is a collection of software components built, assembled, and configured so that it can essentially be used "as is".

is a distribution. It packages several adaptive functionalities and essential modules into its powerhouse. It takes advantage of Drupal core modules, as well as other famous and contributed modules and software components.

Manages general security configurations, with password policy, username enumeration prevention, security kit and review.

Varbase Security Module

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

As of Drupal 9.5.0 stable and Varbase 9.0.10

Remove the following from the root composer.json file for the project.

Old Information About The Issue

Search engines are indexing the media/oembed links in websites. And the search results for the Oembed remote media can be viewed in search results. Then a landing page will open with only the content of the remote media in it.

Current Status In Every Project

Developers add the following Oembed media link in the robots.txt to be disallowed

Drupal core file does not have the Disallow: /media/oembed and only following with

Adding Disallow Media Oembed in Old Projects

As of Varbase 9.0.6 and later do not need to do any work on this part.

If the project was built from Varbase 9.0.5 and older versions need to do the following steps:

Add line “Disallow: /media/oembed“ to be configured from Varbase to be always included in robots.txt Regarding the other languages will be dealt with by the delivery team to add the variation according to the available languages on the website

• Add the following in src/assets/varbase-robots-additions.txt file

• Add the following append for for the file-mapping in template. To make sure it will be added, even if the robots.txt was changed or updated.

Updated the default Varbase Project with the issue.

Actions After the Fix in Drupal 9.5.0

Remove the following from the root composer.json file.

Provides Landing page (Layout Builder) content type and related configuration. Use Landing page (Layout Builder) to build pages with custom sections and layouts to display content in a modern way.

Varbase Landing Page (Layout Builder) Module

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

Required Varbase Modules

This module needs the following Varbase modules in order to function.

Varbase Layout Builder Module

Provides default configuration and enhancements to utilize Drupal core's Layout Builder.

Mailer Policy

Navigate to Administration \ Configuration \ System \ Mailer

To configure Mailer Policy to customize outgoing emails in many different ways. There are many possible policies to apply including: subject; body; addresses (from, to, ...); theme; transport; convert to plain text. Each policy can be set globally or for emails of a specific type.

Add SMTP Transport Service

Navigate to Administration \ Configuration \ System \ Mailer policy \ Transports

To see the list of mailer transports.

• Select SMTP from the list of transport types, and click on the Add transport button

• Fill in the Label for the SMTP service

• Fill in the User name for the SMTP service. It could be the same email sender created in the SMTP service provider

• Provide the password to log in with it

Press the Save submit button to save the SMTP transport

A message of "The transport configuration has been saved." will show up and the page will be redirected back to the Mailer transports configuration page.

Set the STMP transport as the default transport sender for emails, by clicking on "Set as Default" from the operations list for the SMTP transport.

Set the Email Logo for Symfony Mailer Template

provide theme settings for emails too. Vartheme generated themes followed with that too.

• Generate a new custom theme following with

• Enable the new custom generated theme for example and set it as the default theme on the site.

• Navigate to Administration \ Appearance \ Appearance settings \ A Custom Generated Theme of Vartheme

The email logo custom theme settings can be filled as desired

The provided Email Logo will feed the Symfony Mailer template with the selected logo, which it will be linked in the email.

Custom Templates and Styling In Custom Themes

When the custom theme for a project did not have any changes. No extra work is needed at this point.

Change the following steps when having any changes over the custom theme in the project.

Inline or style elements are cleared out in the email.twig , varbase_email.twig template file.

Create a new library to attach the needed styles to it

Example: custom_theme.libraries.yml file

Have all custom LTR ( left to right) and RTL ( right to left ) styling in separate files and libraries, to override the default Varbase Email libraries.

Symfony Mailer only allows attaching the custom styling to the template using the default Drupal library system.

The Varbase Email module has two libraries which are attached to the Symfony email template. They can be extended or overridden.

Example: custom_theme.info.yml file in your custom Vartheme generated theme

Symfony Mailer allows each module to have custom email templates and other sending transport.

The default transport service will be used when no custom transport was configured for the module. When a custom or contrib module is trying to send emails.

If the old project had any custom code or custom multiple mailers in the same system. The code should be migrated to configs. Using the Symfony Mailer plugin system.

Provides Frequently Asked Questions content type and related configuration. A frequently asked question and its answer.

• FAQs page using the Varbase Layout Builder. so that sections and blocks could be managed on the page.

• FAQs list as a block, which it could be placed in any section of the site.

• Protected content of Frequently Asked Questions to be listed only on the /faqs page.

Varbase FAQs Module

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

Features

• FAQs page using the Varbase Layout Builder. so that sections and blocks could be managed on the page.

• FAQs list as a block, which it could be placed in any section of the site.

• Protected content of Frequently Asked Questions to be listed only on the /faqs page.

Required Varbase Modules

This module needs the following Varbase modules in order to function.

Varbase Layout Builder Module

Provides default configuration and enhancements to utilize Drupal core's Layout Builder.

Varbase Landing Page (Layout Builder) Module

Provides Landing page (Layout Builder) content type and related configuration. Use Landing page (Layout Builder) to build pages with custom sections and layouts to display content in a modern way.

Provides the basis for Landing Pages, which are built to include appealing stacked components that are visually separate.

Varbase Landing Page (Paragraphs) Module

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

Required Varbase Modules

This module needs the following Varbase modules in order to function.

Varbase Bootstrap Paragraphs Module

A suite of Paragraph bundles to be used for distribution.

Varbase Media Module

Manages type of media contents and entity browsers in the site.

Varbase SEO Module

Provide Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Core features and settings.

Utilizing Single Directory Components (SDC) and UI Patterns module. Working in hand with Vartheme BS5 the Varbase Theme (Bootstrap 5 - SASS). The new generation of theming based on Bootstrap 5, SDC, and UI Patterns.

Varbase Components Module

Provide Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Core features and settings.

Varbase SEO Module

The logical use for Varbase Layout Builder configs is with the "Full Content" display mode for most planed content types. If the Content type has an access permission for users to open a page with a URL to see the full content. It's better to activate the Layout Builder for the default layout for that full content.

Steps to Activate

A suite of Paragraph bundles to be used for distribution.

Made with the Bootstrap framework, based on a fork of Bootstrap Paragraph module

Using , you can add text with a WYSIWYG-editor, pictures, complex layouts to your pages – and change the order by dragging and dropping the content wherever you like it. Thanks to a preview mode, you get a good idea of how your page will look like in the end. It handles responsive layouts in a seamless way.

Varbase Bootstrap Paragraphs Module

Provides a collection of recipes for AI tools, empowering editorial teams with a wide range of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Enables seamless management of custom AI integrations for Varbase and supports updatable AI workflows.

Varbase AI Module