Business

Commerce 2.x has a lot of changes in comparison to Commerce 1x. In this blogpost, we write about how those changes affected us in our project and what we did to resolve certain problems that showed up as we used Commerce 2.x for a newspaper subscription shop.

On May 2, the latest version of the news portal suedostschweiz.ch was published. In close collaboration with the developer team of Somedia Publishing, MD Systems has contributed to a successful relaunch. Südostschweiz.ch not only appears in a revised full-responsive design, but has also received some new features.

The new version of Drupal Commerce has been rewritten from scratch, learning from what worked well and what was causing problems in Commerce 1.x. In this blog post, we will focus on explaining some of the key differences we have seen so far and how they affect developers and users.

Modular architecture of the Drupal 8 media ecosystem has become a standard. If you want to build media related editorial experience modules like Entity browser, DropzoneJS and Media entity are the way to go. They can effectively handle locally hosted media, but they are not limited to that. Recently we implemented a module that integrates with the Bynder DAM and lets you use its assets directly in a Drupal 8 site.

Thunder is a Drupal-based Content Management System for publishers that enjoys significant industry backing and has gained global visibility. Because it’s Open Source it’s easy to obtain, but spinning up an environment to evaluate the product can still be a daunting task for non-experts. Thunderdemo.com solves this problem, providing a free, simple and cloud-based trial of Thunder, regardless of your skill level.

Our team has joined the Drupal Developer Days in Seville! Read about the event, sessions and the workshop of the MDS team. Catch up with the slides from the presentations.

The modular Drupal Media ecosystem is in full bloom in Drupal 8 land. Editors use the Entity Browser as a central hub between media items and their placement into content.

By default, Entity Browser lets us upload and list locally available media. And if you want to get media from somewhere else, like a DAM (Digital Asset Management) system, Entity Browser allows for seamless integration with any service provider.

The digital transformation heavily disrupts the media industry and constantly raises the expectations of our users. Let me show you how Paragraphs is enabling content creators by clearing our way to craft rich content experiences with ease.

The Media Initiative finally became one of the official Drupal core initiatives. We’ve been part of it since its inception more than 3 years ago and we are still one of its leading parts.

We have been working on implementing a new Drupal 8 Translation Service Provider for the Translation Management module. Acclaro, a US based translation and localization company, extended its service integrations by adding support for TMGMT.