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Local
Local is a Drupal CMS site template for organisations that help people find the services and information they need — local councils, community support services and community participation organisations.
Standing on the shoulders of giants, this site template for Drupal CMS and Canvas is inspired by the research and development of the UK and Ireland local government communities working with Drupal and follows guidance from the gov.uk design system, drawing on Annertech's extensive experience in the sector.
Every component — from the hero banner and top task links to the service cards and section layouts — are purpose-designed by Annertech's team to integrate with Drupal CMS and Canvas, ensuring that the editorial experience in Canvas and the rendered output are coherent from the ground up.
Features include:
- Classic blue and white theme complete with Canvas ready components that follow proven, accessible patterns.
- Canvas landing pages — home, about, and what's on, built with Canvas components
- Service landing page content type — top-level section page with configurable top task links
- Service page content type — individual service with title, description, and rich body content
- A vibrant 'Bright' theme variant in pink and amber with rounded components and offset styling.
- ECA automation — section pages stay in sync when service pages are published or updated
- Pathauto — clean hierarchical URLs generated automatically
- Demo content — five demonstration service sections, with service page examples.
- Content moderation — draft and published workflow for all service content
- Drupal CMS foundation — including media, search, SEO, cookie consent, authentication recipes
Frequently asked questions
Simplytest is a great service. We were in fact inspired by it. If you have not tried it, you should try it out. Seriously. Here's the link. Drupal Forge is a community service - just like Simplytest. Here are the similarities and differences:
- Like Simplytest, Drupal Forge (DF) lets you create 6 hour temporary disposable Drupal Dev sites.
- On DF, you can optionally add a Cloud Dev Environment (CDE) to your Drupal Dev sites.
- With a CDE, your Dev sites are automatically paused at after 6-hours instead of getting deleted.
- You can un-pause your sites and continue where you left off.
- You can keep extending the working life of your Dev sites (in increments of 6 hours).
- With a CDE, you get a browser-based VS Code IDE (aka Cloud IDE), pre-installed with Composer and Drush.
- Full access to the MySQL database with PhpMyAdmin - a browser-based db admin tool.
- Invite and collaborate with other developers on the Code IDE - think parallel programming.
- Download your site and use it on your Local Dev Environment.
- Go live with your site - deploy it to an external server on Digital Ocean, Light Sail, etc. Connect your custom URL to it. Maintain the Dev site on DF.