Bloggly

A Profile to fulfil all your blogging needs.

Bloggly was made for one of Drupal's GCI 2018 tasks - Build a Drupal Distribution for blogging.

How I knew I could make this?

For making Bloggly, I referred the Drupal Documentation which provided all the required step-by-step information I needed.

Selection of Modules / Themes

I did a bit of research on the Drupal Module And Theme directory, and searched modules by various keywords to decide which modules and themes I had to Include.

The Development Process

Created the basic .profile, .info.yml and .install files.
Secondly, once I knew which modules I had to use, I downloaded the assets of the modules which were not included with the core, and put them in the /modules directory.
The Slick module gave a bit of problem since it needed some dependencies like Slick and bLazy which I put in the /libraries directory.
I downloaded the Nexus theme and put it in the /themes directory.
At each step, I used Pantheon for testing. I used SFTP to upload the profile after every change and then check the working.

Modules

metatag
layouter
background_image
svg_formatter
mailchimp
addtoany
sitemap
views_slideshow
sociallinks
slick
automated_cron
block
block_content
breakpoint
ckeditor
color
comment
config
contact
contextual
datetime
dblog
dynamic_page_cache
editor
field
field_ui
file
filter
help
history
image
link
menu_ui
node
options
page_cache
path
quickedit
rdf
search
shortcut
system
taxonomy
text
toolbar
tour
update
user
views_ui
menu_link_content
views
token

Themes

Nexus
Stable
Classy
Bartik
Seven

Usage

Create a new website and deploy Drupal 8. Do not install Drupal yet.
Download the Bloggly Distribution and place all the files in the /profiles/bloggly folder of the Drupal root folder on the website.
Now, open the /config/install.php page of your site to begin installing Drupal.
The Bloggly installation profile will be chosen by default if there is no other profile available. Else, choose Bloggly as the installation profile while installing Drupal.
Enter the basic site configuration as followed.

You are done!

Note: Bloggly doesn't enable any themes, and so you would have to enable them yourself from /admin/appearance.