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Bean is an acronym that stands for:
Block Entities Aren't Nodes.
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- This is not a block heavy site
- It works mostly as an app with the blocks only really being used to place active menus on the screen.
- This is mainly because there are not many reusable pieces to the site. If it isn't a page level thing then it really isn't a part of this site.
- This site doesn't use blocks, but when I use blocks I build them with BEAN.
- Bean gives us all the functionality of building content types with nodes except with blocks instead.
- I normally add a content view for beans at /admin/content/blocks and I disable the default drupal block management stuff, with the exception of block placement. because that is still necessary.
- But again, this site didn't make heavy use of blocks.
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notes
- I don't always use blocks, but when I do I use the bean module
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