Varbase - The Ultimate Drupal CMS Starter Kit (Bootstrap Ready)

Varbase comes with more than 100 features and enhancements to Drupal core. So you don't end up spending countless (and meaningless) hours customizing a new site. We already thought about almost everything you will need.

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Varbase is an enhanced Drupal distribution packed with adaptive functionalities and essential modules, that speed up your development, and provides you with standardized configurations, making your life easier.
The essence of Varbase, lies within the basic concept that initiated it; DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). Varbase handles that for you, relieving you from repeating all the modules, features, configurations that are included in every Drupal project.

It's made with the following benefits in mind:

• Speeds up development
• Offers standardized configuration and best-practices
• Comes with a lot of needed functionalities/modules for every-day Drupal site
• Tested, tested, and tested

Install or Try Varbase on The Cloud

Or, Install Varbase on Your Own Server

Varbase Feature Highlights

Varbase comes with more than 100 features and enhancements to Drupal core. So you don't end up spending countless (and meaningless) hours customizing a new site. We already thought about almost everything you will need.
For a clearer vision on our roadmap, see Varbase Roadmap here.

✔ Search Engine Optimization

All of Drupal's needed on-page SEO modules preconfigured for best results. Including Metatag, Simple XML Sitemap, Redirect, Real-time SEO for Drupal (Yoast), Google Analytics, RDF, and an enhanced markup!

✔ Responsive Previews & Mobile Ready

Varbase utilizes Bootstrap UI framework! And provides a sub-theme that does a better job at handling Drupal's responsive pages and tools. We have also packaged and preconfigured several modules for you such as Responsive Theme Preview.

Added to that, Varbase comes with preconfigured responsive image styles for all media/images you'll use.

✔ Media Management Made Easy

We have packaged the best suite of tools to enhance the media experience in Drupal, and provide a "Media Library" using the best set of modules that includes: Media Entity, Entity Browser, Entity Browser Enhance(d|r), Dropzonejs for drag-n-drop uploads, Entity Embed, Focal Point Cropping, and many other customizations!
You really don't need to do anything! Just install Varbase and you'll to get the best media tools all together.

✔ Landing Page Creator (Layout Builder)

Using Layout Builder, you can add text with a WYSIWYG-editor, pictures, media, galleries, carousels, headers, complex layouts to your pages – and change the order by dragging and dropping the content wherever you like it. Thanks to the Layout Builder, you can change layout from the user interface and have a good idea of how your page will look like in the end.
Landing pages also use Varbase Layout Builder that handle responsive layouts in a seamless way.

✔ Flexible Administration Dashboard

A dashboard is what's missing for better Drupal administration experience.
Varbase comes with Varbase Total Control Dashboard dashboard that is built on top of Total Control Admin Dashboard module, utilizing Panels, Google Analytics Reports, and several enhanced blocks and widgets for an intuitive and flexible administration experience.

✔ Truly “What You See Is What You Get” with Inline Editing

Varbase uses Drupal 8 and 9's inline editing capabilities with an enhanced theme to make it easier for editors to edit articles right from within the page. By enabling Edit Mode, you can change headers, body content, and replace images all within the context of the webpage.

✔ View and Compare History of All Edits

With content and metadata versioning, editors or admins can access a complete Revision History for all edits performed on the webpage. Edits are never done without keeping track of who made it, what changed, and when it was changed.
Varbase also offers visual and side-by-side comparison of content edits to highlight changes in an easy and effective way. This is through the bundled and configured modules such as Diff.

✔ Multilingual-First ^(optional)

At Vardot we build multilingual sites all the time. That's why we've built Varbase with a suite of multilingual features and enhancements.
With Varbase, you get to choose your site's languages at install time, and it will take care of the rest of the configuration for you!

✔ Ready View Modes Packages ^(optional)

Using View Modes Inventory module that was specifically built for Varbase, we have packaged the most common view modes you'll need for almost any site.
With Varbase, you won't spend much time creating new view modes and configuring each to use a responsive image style! It comes ready for you.

✔ Proper Site Search ^(optional)

Varbase uses Search API module, to provide better search performance, customization, and search experience. Of course, Search API Solr Search is the preferred server.

✔ Editorial Tools That Everyone Needs

Varbase focuses on the editorial experience and tools that will be needed over time. It bundles
Content Lock module to prevent concurrent editing, Diff, Entityqueue, and many other tools.
We've enabled (and encourage you to keep this practice) revisioning on all content types and entities. Packaged with that 30+ administration enhancements to forms, wording, and other tools that make Drupal more appealing.

✔ Rich Text Editor

Varbase Editor is packaged with Varbase to bridge the missing editor features such as LinkIt, BiDi Buttons, Embedding rich media, and also taking care of the super user to provide a nice HTML editor using ACE Code Editor.

Varbase is a base distribution delivered to you by Vardot.

Learn more how you can extend Varbase to build your own distribution.

Distributions that extend Varbase:

• Vardoc: Knowledge Base System and Documentation Site
• Uber Publisher: A Powerful Publishing Experience That Changes The Way Content is Curated