No. There are no plans to make Composer mandatory and most people don't touch it for Backdrop sites. While there are a few things you can do in Bee that you can't do in the UI, you can easily manage your site updates almost entirely through the user interface and without Bee.
One exception, but you can do this by editing the files through cPanel File Manager, FTP or some other way is when robots.txt, .htaccess or settings.php have changes that you need to apply. These are not replaced in the UI upgrade process (and won't be when the Bee upgrade command is complete) as it could override any custom settings.
Hi @Gnome and welcome to Backdrop
When I create custom layout templates I put them in /layouts/custom/my_layout
Note: you can split modules and layouts between contrib and custom...
Posted3 days 14 hours ago by Martin Price | System Horizons Ltd (yorkshirepudding) on:
This post explains how to do this in Drupal 7. In Backdrop, File Entity is already part of core. You will need to download and install module Views Field View.
https://drupal.stackexchange...
Posted4 days 22 hours ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
After alot of trials, i have done the obvious and translated the whole block for different languages with each property condition as follows:
->propertyCondition('langcode', 'en...
Thanks so much! It's working now:
I was able to transfer the docroot files to the containing directory without the need for a second database or any manual configuration export/import/sync...
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No. There are no plans to make Composer mandatory and most people don't touch it for Backdrop sites. While there are a few things you can do in Bee that you can't do in the UI, you can easily manage your site updates almost entirely through the user interface and without Bee.
One exception, but you can do this by editing the files through cPanel File Manager, FTP or some other way is when
robots.txt
,.htaccess
orsettings.php
have changes that you need to apply. These are not replaced in the UI upgrade process (and won't be when the Bee upgrade command is complete) as it could override any custom settings.