Local is a Drupal site template designed for community-focused organizations like local councils and support services. It provides a starter site with pre-built landing pages, content types for services, and ECA workflows for content synchronization, all built on Drupal.
Local Site Template
Local is an open source Drupal Site Template designed for for organisations that help people find the services and information they need — small local councils, community support services and community participation organisations.
Built on Drupal CMS 2.x, it provides a starter site that bundles Drupal Canvas ready landing page components provided by the purpose-designed 'Consistent' theme, 'Services' Content Types synced with demonstration ECA workflows and more.
Features
- 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
- Dedicated navigation
- Coming soon: 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
Supporting organisations
From our humble beginnings in 2008, Annertech has grown to become an innovative open-source digital agency.
We strongly believe in the principles of free and open software. Our philosophy is to never hoard our knowledge, but share it – with clients, partners and the open-source community.
The Annertech project team:
Tony Barker
Luke Brennan
Fatima Mahmood
Stella Power
Mike King
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.
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