Accelerating Drupal Commerce Adoption through a new Commerce Kickstart DrupalCon Portland 2022
Speaker: Ryan Szrama
Commerce Kickstart 2.x was the most popular Drupal distribution ever created, achieving an install base of over 10,000 sites during the Drupal 7 lifecycle. It gave evaluators a complete, out of the box demo store to explore, and it also served as the foundation for countless stores - some of which grew to sell millions of orders!
However, Drupal 8's switch to Composer and configuration management in core left the future of a distribution like Commerce Kickstart in doubt. Project maintainers Centarro (formerly Commerce Guys) considered other options to replace Commerce Kickstart, but determined in 2021 to relaunch a new version of the distribution as the quickest way to get started with Drupal Commerce.
* Learn in this session how the evolving Drupal development and site management standards required a new approach to distribution development and maintenance.
* Receive a guided tour of its features designed to make the onboarding process for Drupal Commerce merchants much easier than ever before.
* Hear firsthand the strategy Centarro implemented to ensure a single distribution could support multiple use cases - demo store, full-stack project base, and headless project base - without requiring site builders to work against or undo out of the box features and content.
Commerce Kickstart 2.x was the most popular Drupal distribution ever created, achieving an install base of over 10,000 sites during the Drupal 7 lifecycle. It gave evaluators a complete, out of the box demo store to explore, and it also served as the foundation for countless stores - some of which grew to sell millions of orders!
However, Drupal 8's switch to Composer and configuration management in core left the future of a distribution like Commerce Kickstart in doubt. Project maintainers Centarro (formerly Commerce Guys) considered other options to replace Commerce Kickstart, but determined in 2021 to relaunch a new version of the distribution as the quickest way to get started with Drupal Commerce.
* Learn in this session how the evolving Drupal development and site management standards required a new approach to distribution development and maintenance.
* Receive a guided tour of its features designed to make the onboarding process for Drupal Commerce merchants much easier than ever before.
* Hear firsthand the strategy Centarro implemented to ensure a single distribution could support multiple use cases - demo store, full-stack project base, and headless project base - without requiring site builders to work against or undo out of the box features and content.