As of 2024, the core team's work is arranged into ‘missions’ based on feedback from our council users and suppliers. This gives us more focus and ensures we’re working on the right things for users.
Our current missions are:
- Accessibility (a comprehensive audit of everything we’ve done so far, followed by work to address any issues)
- Editor experience (new features and quality-of-life improvements for our content designer users)
- Microsites (stability improvements and new features for our flexible site-building platform)
We’re also spending time on:
- Growing contributions to LocalGov Drupal, including moving our projects to drupal.org
- Continuing integration work with our supporting partner, Netcall
- Exploring how LocalGov Drupal could be used for intranets
Council and supplier contributions
Councils and suppliers also contribute features to LocalGov Drupal; you can see some of the current contributors below.
Thanks to everyone who's contributed - we're stronger working together!
If you have suggestions for future features, please get in touch.
Recent releases
Several recent releases can now be tested.
We encourage councils and suppliers to help us test alpha and beta releases so we can resolve bugs before making a stable release. Please see our docs site for more information on release status and stability.
| Update | Release Status | By |
|---|---|---|
| Content access by path Optional Drupal contributed module - Allows content creation to be devolved to other council teams. |
Stable | Essex, Annertech |
| Elections v2, v3 Optional LGD contributed module - Allows automatic creation of Ward and Westminster elections |
Alpha | Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, Rohallion, Big Blue Door and Mark Conroy |
| HTML publications Optional LGD contributed module - Provides long form content type to reduce the need for publishing PDFs. |
Stable | Hammersmith & Fulham, Chicken, The Digital Word |
| Media entity usage Provides a new 'usage' tab on media items to show pages on which they are used |
Stable | Big Blue Door and Mark Conroy |
| Service contacts Optional LGD Core module - Assign pages to contacts in your organisation who receive automatic emails when content needs to be reviewed. |
Stable | Core team |
| Subsite extras Optional LGD contributed module - Provides a menu for subsites and allows any LGD content type to be included. |
Alpha | Hammersmith and Fulham, Essex, Chicken, Big Blue Door and Mark Conroy |
| LocalGov Microsites Manage all your microsites from one Drupal installation. Now at a 4.0.0-beta1 release and ready for testing. |
Beta | Core team |
What we're working on now
| Update | By |
|---|---|
| Accessibility audit of LGD CMS and LGD Microsites. With follow on remediation work. | Core team |
| Preview link update Automatic creation of single links to preview whole guides, step-by-step and directories. |
Core team |
| Events v2 It provides event “channels” to gather specific types of events (e.g., Fostering, Environment, children). |
Hammersmith & Fulham, Essex, Chicken |
| Microsites 4.0.0 stable release General stability updates and test coverage. Gathering needs for future developments. |
Core team |
Find more details on the LocalGov Drupal backlog.
What we're working on next
| Update | By |
|---|---|
| Character counts for title and summary fields | Core team with others tba |
| Exploring additional functionality provided by the following Drupal modules: Entity Usage, Replicate, What Links Here, Masquerade, Content Readability, Open AI. | Core team with others tba |
| Microsites features identified by our community. | Core team with others tba |
Unfunded work
We’re looking for financial support from councils and suppliers to meet bigger goals.
Like ‘Kickstarter’ projects, work will go ahead when we have sufficient backing.
| Update | Funding needed | By |
|---|---|---|
| Elections v4 Provides for elections where multiple candidates can be elected in any single ward, also potentially adding PR type votes. Technical fixes and tests. |
8 day approx | Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, Rohallion |
| Insight Discovery project to provide content designers with useful info within LGD: accessibility checks, broken links checks, analytics, user feedback. |
TBC | TBC |
How we design and build
We use the UK Design Council’s Double Diamond design framework to ensure that adequate time and creative thinking are given to any given feature. This framework gives us a common language with which to discuss design. Also see our Feature Design guide.